What has become startlingly clear this week is that a team's success does not necessarily mean guaranteed points for key members of that team. Australia have been absolutely drubbed in the UAE - a series that will be best remembered for the Aussies batting for a draw in an impressive fashion but one that was not overly congruent with the combative style of play Australia like to associate themselves with. Despite this Nathan Lyon has managed to stand above a somewhat unimpressive cast of misfits to deliver some of his best figures on the sub continent and claim Cricketer of the Week in the process. His eight wickets were added to Lyon's customary low economy and plethora of maidens to push his score over the 300 mark for the second time in three weeks. The under rated spin bowler now sits thirteenth on our overall list. Moving up that overall list but (quite dramatically) down the weekly list, Virat Kohli provides the antithesis of Nathan Lyon. His India team were even more dominant over the West Indies than Pakistan over Australia but the India captain got only 45 points to show from this. It is often the case with these dominating wins that it can disadvantage certain players and it seems that Kohli feels the brunt of these more often than most. Not that he will overly mind as he sits in sixth place with his more favoured ODI matches on the horizon.
Whilst we have focused on some other low performing Cricketers in these posts as the weeks have gone by, Shaun Marsh has gone unnoticed but, as the likes of his brother Mitchell and Ravi Jadeja move up, we see Shaun Marsh just above the trio of David Warner, Steve Smith and George Bailey in 21st place. His poor performance in this tour of the UAE has put his place in the Australia squad under question but his form has been poor for a long time before that. Excluding bowlers, wicket keepers and allrounders, Marsh has the eighth lowest batting average of any Australian batsman over the last one hundred years and averages just 8.8 in his last ten innings. In terms of all his performances this year he has hardly set the world alight either. His highest point scoring Week came in Week 24 when his 215 points saw him claim top spot for his One Day performances against England - however his overall average for his twenty active weeks sits at just 82.8. The injury plagued star could blame his injury plagued-ness for this and he will hope to return to form in 2018 - but at 35 years old, Marsh the Second does not have time on his hands.
341 points this week proves the theory that Rashid Khan can always be relied on in the latter stages of tournaments. We have seen this time and time again and Kabul have a lot to thank their captain for as they have progressed to the inaugural APL final. This week has proved a further feather in the cap for those who think that Rashid could turn into a decent allrounder, starting with an awesome 27 off 8 balls against Kandahar and then a more sedate 35 off 19 coupled with bowling figures of 4/20 in the Semi-Final against Paktia. We will see this afternoon if Rashid can take the cherry on the cake and lift his country's first domestic trophy to top off a very impressive 2018 for the young Afghanistan player.
Week
Nathan Lyon - 353
Rashid Khan - 341
Jeetan Patel - 215
Ravi Ashwin - 210
Ravi Jadeja - 190
Simon Harmer - 162
Mitchell Marsh- 143
Joe Root- 141
Jos Buttler- 128
Aaron Finch- 70
Dean Elgar - 51
Virat Kohli- 45
Sunil Narine - 33
George Bailey - 12
Shaun Marsh - 7
Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Hashim Amla- dnp
Jofra Archer- dnp
Quinton De Kock- dnp
AB De Villiers- dnp
JP Duminy- dnp
Steve Smith - dnp
David Warner - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp
Overall
Simon Harmer - 6187
Rashid Khan - 5522
Jeetan Patel - 5311
Jos Buttler - 4102
Sunil Narine- 3887
Virat Kohli- 3716
Jofra Archer - 3578
Aaron Finch - 3648
Joe Root - 3646
Kane Williamson - 3287
Ravi Ashwin - 3028
Shakib Al Hasan - 2886
Nathan Lyon - 2727
JP Duminy - 2496
Ravi Jadeja - 2447
Quinton de Kock - 2121
Hashim Amla - 2091
Mitchell Marsh - 2085
Dean Elgar- 2047
AB De Villiers- 2010
Shaun Marsh- 1656
David Warner - 1401
Steve Smith - 1350
George Bailey - 981
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