Whereas the last few weeks have seen a great deal of point scoring going on for our 24 best Cricketers in the world, this week has seen three Cricketers do very well indeed, a few post a score and the rest inactive or in incomplete games. The top accolade this week goes to Jeetan Patel who has returned from the T20 wilderness to impress for Warwickshire in a victory against Middlesex in which he claimed ten wickets - including equalling his best ever yield of wickets in an innings. He also claimed his 800th first class wicket in the game. This performance has seen the New Zealand captain move up the table and slide ever closer towards Simon Harmer in top spot. There is now just 108 points between first and second place as Harmer finishes his game against Hampshire this afternoon. Joining Patel up the top both this week and overall is Rashid Khan who also impressed in his three ODIs against Ireland. His eight wickets in the week sees him fall just short of top spot this week but sees the top three of Harmer, Patel and Khan move further away from the chasing pack. There is now 617 points between Khan and Jos Buttler in fourth place. With the County Championship season drawing to a close the big question is whether Harmer and Patel can put enough space between themselves and others to finish in a competitive position as they are inactive through the autumn?
The CPL must be a tantalising payday for the stars of world cricket, however for those out of form it must be a desperate place to be. With games spread out geographically and temporally more than you would normally see in a franchise tournament, if you are out of touch then it must be a uniquely difficult place to pick up any momentum. We have previously seen this with David Warner but this week Hashim Amla and Steve Smith have brought this into especially sharp focus. Amla joined up with Barbados late off the back of some pretty dire form for South Africa and has seen an even sharper decline at the franchise. His average in the CPL this year is now a pathetic 8.5 - even more shockingly his August average is not much better at 19.5. One wonders if a spell in the nets would have improved Amla's game if not his bank account. Steve Smith, on the other hand, does not have the luxury to step away from the game for respite due to an enforced period of rest handed down by Cricket Australia. This week Smith picked up 123, which doesn't sound too bad until you learn that he played 4 games in that time. Off the back of his 63 and 2-19 against Jamaica many thought he could pick up a bit of touch and push on in this tournament. This thought has been very much put to bed by the three scores that preceded that game being 4, 0 and 9. Yesterday's score of 40 puts him back on our radar again but is likely to lead to disappointment if his recent sporadic performances are anything to go by. The only respite that the former Australian captain can gain is that he has overtaken David Warner in the overall table - the last time this was the case was back in March.
Week
Jeetan Patel - 358
Jofra Archer- 332
Rashid Khan - 311
Steve Smith - 123
David Warner - 92
Sunil Narine- 13
Dean Elgar- 8
Hashim Amla - 5
Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Ravi Ashwin- dnp
George Bailey - dnp
Jos Buttler - dnp
Quinton De Kock- dnp
AB De Villiers- dnp
JP Duminy- dnp
Aaron Finch - dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Ravi Jadeja- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Nathan Lyon - dnp
Mitchell Marsh - dnp
Shaun Marsh - dnp
Joe Root- dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp
Overall
Simon Harmer - 4699
Jeetan Patel - 4591
Rashid Khan - 4330
Jos Buttler - 3713
Jofra Archer - 3513
Aaron Finch - 3343
Virat Kohli- 3309
Sunil Narine- 3144
Kane Williamson - 3094
Joe Root - 3073
Shakib Al Hasan - 2582
Ravi Ashwin - 2385
JP Duminy - 2336
Quinton de Kock - 2020
Hashim Amla - 2013
AB De Villiers- 2010
Nathan Lyon - 1833
Dean Elgar- 1694
Shaun Marsh- 1498
Mitchell Marsh - 1425
Steve Smith - 1350
David Warner - 1349
Ravi Jadeja - 1226
George Bailey - 631
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