In current form Ravi Jadeja could do anything. He could captain the Irish women's team to World Cup triumph. He could successfully negotiate a peaceful and sensible Brexit. He could even sort out the ECB. Everything that Ravi Jadeja has touched since September has turned into Bitcoin. This week he has scored the second highest total from a single week after Jeetan Patel's 496 in Week 26. After starting the year as something of a persona non grata at Saurashtra, his uptick in form that started for India against England has seen him glide back into his domestic side. This week he registered in all point scoring categories with the exception of Strike Rate as he claimed man of the match against Railways. It is well known that Jadeja can turn his hand to batting when the mood takes him, and it seems the mood took him this week as he scored 226 across both innings, finishing unbeaten both times. It is easy to forget that for two thirds of the year Jadeja sat at the bottom of the table of active players (discounting George Bailey, Steve Smith and David Warner). In fact this week he scored more points than he did in the first sixteen weeks of the year. He is now in twelfth position and is a couple of good performances from forcing the issue in the top ten.
To say that AB De Villiers came back with a bang is something of an understatement. Fans of the talismanic South African have not seen him in action since his shock(ish) international retirement and subsequent step away from the game sixteen weeks ago. As ABDV approaches the late Kevin Pietersen mould of mercenary cricketing, he could very well have lost form and struggled but the Pretorian stepped up to the plate in the inaugural game of his home country's new T20 tournament and registered a half century straight off the bat. Whilst his Tshwane team could not overhaul Cape Town, his symbolic presence at the event did more for the competition than otherwise. Due to his inactivity he sits in that cluster of amorphous South African and Australian players at the foot of the table which is probably where he will stay. It is unlikely he will be selected for our list in 2019 and this makes a rather dispiriting end for one of the finest proponents of the short form game and one of the best players of his generation.
Jos Buttler is known for his T20 prowess. Less so Joe Root (just ask the IPL teams). This week both Englishmen showed their ability to up the strike rate - but more unusually, they did so in a Test. Jos went first with 63 from 67 in the first innings and then, surprisingly, more impressively the skipper followed suit in the second innings with 124 runs off 146 balls. This strike rate and run scoring double whammy saw Joe Root score his fourth highest weekly score of 2018 and overtake Sunil Narine to put him just behind Virat Kohli (again) whilst Jos overtook Kohli to seize fourth place once more. To have two England Test players in the six best players in the world is something that we would have thought impossible at the start of the year, especially with Buttler seemingly discarded from the set up. I think we have ended the year with the England Test team in a much stronger place than it started it...next The Ashes.
The (entirely fabricated by me) battle between Quinton De Kock and Dean Elgar rages on. This week's update is much the same as last week's. Both players did well but Quinton did better. Elgar got 52 points from a purely batting display in the same inaugural Mzansi Super League match that De Villiers featured in, but Mr Consistency, Quinton De Kock, got 16 more runs (admittedly across double the amount of games) in the matches in Australia. They still sit in 17th and 18th in the battle of slightly above average South Africans.
Week
Ravi Jadeja- 546
Joe Root- 238
Jos Buttler - 127
AB De Villiers- 99
Quinton De Kock - 68
Dean Elgar- 52
Aaron Finch- 27
Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Hashim Amla- dnp
Jofra Archer- dnp
Ravi Ashwin - dnp
George Bailey - dnp
JP Duminy- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Rashid Khan - dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Nathan Lyon - dnp
Mitchell Marsh- dnp
Shaun Marsh - dnp
Sunil Narine - dnp
Jeetan Patel - dnp
Steve Smith - dnp
David Warner - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp
Overall
Simon Harmer - 6830
Rashid Khan - 5555
Jeetan Patel - 5311
Jos Buttler - 4424
Virat Kohli- 4369
Joe Root - 4127
Sunil Narine- 3938
Aaron Finch - 3807
Jofra Archer - 3578
Kane Williamson - 3544
Ravi Ashwin - 3370
Ravi Jadeja - 3263
Nathan Lyon - 2976
Shakib Al Hasan - 2886
JP Duminy - 2496
Mitchell Marsh - 2493
Quinton de Kock - 2349
Dean Elgar- 2284
AB De Villiers- 2109
Shaun Marsh- 2102
Hashim Amla - 2091
David Warner - 1401
Steve Smith - 1350
George Bailey - 1087In current form Ravi Jadeja could do anything. He could captain the Irish women's team to World Cup triumph. He could successfully negotiate a peaceful and sensible Brexit. He could even sort out the ECB. Everything that Ravi Jadeja has touched since September has turned into Bitcoin. This week he has scored the second highest total from a single week after Jeetan Patel's 496 in Week 26. After starting the year as something of a persona non grata at Saurashtra, his uptick in form that started for India against England has seen him glide back into his domestic side. This week he registered in all point scoring categories with the exception of Strike Rate as he claimed man of the match against Railways. It is well known that Jadeja can turn his hand to batting when the mood takes him, and it seems the mood took him this week as he scored 226 across both innings, finishing unbeaten both times. It is easy to forget that for two thirds of the year Jadeja sat at the bottom of the table of active players (discounting George Bailey, Steve Smith and David Warner). In fact this week he scored more points than he did in the first sixteen weeks of the year. He is now in twelfth position and is a couple of good performances from forcing the issue in the top ten.
To say that AB De Villiers came back with a bang is something of an understatement. Fans of the talismanic South African have not seen him in action since his shock(ish) international retirement and subsequent step away from the game sixteen weeks ago. As ABDV approaches the late Kevin Pietersen mould of mercenary cricketing, he could very well have lost form and struggled but the Pretorian stepped up to the plate in the inaugural game of his home country's new T20 tournament and registered a half century straight off the bat. Whilst his Tshwane team could not overhaul Cape Town, his symbolic presence at the event did more for the competition than otherwise. Due to his inactivity he sits in that cluster of amorphous South African and Australian players at the foot of the table which is probably where he will stay. It is unlikely he will be selected for our list in 2019 and this makes a rather dispiriting end for one of the finest proponents of the short form game and one of the best players of his generation.
Jos Buttler is known for his T20 prowess. Less so Joe Root (just ask the IPL teams). This week both Englishmen showed their ability to up the strike rate - but more unusually, they did so in a Test. Jos went first with 63 from 67 in the first innings and then, surprisingly, more impressively the skipper followed suit in the second innings with 124 runs off 146 balls. This strike rate and run scoring double whammy saw Joe Root score his fourth highest weekly score of 2018 and overtake Sunil Narine to put him just behind Virat Kohli (again) whilst Jos overtook Kohli to seize fourth place once more. To have two England Test players in the six best players in the world is something that we would have thought impossible at the start of the year, especially with Buttler seemingly discarded from the set up. I think we have ended the year with the England Test team in a much stronger place than it started it...next The Ashes.
The (entirely fabricated by me) battle between Quinton De Kock and Dean Elgar rages on. This week's update is much the same as last week's. Both players did well but Quinton did better. Elgar got 52 points from a purely batting display in the same inaugural Mzansi Super League match that De Villiers featured in, but Mr Consistency, Quinton De Kock, got 16 more runs (admittedly across double the amount of games) in the matches in Australia. They still sit in 17th and 18th in the battle of slightly above average South Africans.
Week
Ravi Jadeja- 546
Joe Root- 238
Jos Buttler - 127
AB De Villiers- 99
Quinton De Kock - 68
Dean Elgar- 52
Aaron Finch- 27
Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Hashim Amla- dnp
Jofra Archer- dnp
Ravi Ashwin - dnp
George Bailey - dnp
JP Duminy- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Rashid Khan - dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Nathan Lyon - dnp
Mitchell Marsh- dnp
Shaun Marsh - dnp
Sunil Narine - dnp
Jeetan Patel - dnp
Steve Smith - dnp
David Warner - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp
Overall
Simon Harmer - 6830
Rashid Khan - 5555
Jeetan Patel - 5311
Jos Buttler - 4424
Virat Kohli- 4369
Joe Root - 4127
Sunil Narine- 3938
Aaron Finch - 3807
Jofra Archer - 3578
Kane Williamson - 3544
Ravi Ashwin - 3370
Ravi Jadeja - 3263
Nathan Lyon - 2976
Shakib Al Hasan - 2886
JP Duminy - 2496
Mitchell Marsh - 2493
Quinton de Kock - 2349
Dean Elgar- 2284
AB De Villiers- 2109
Shaun Marsh- 2102
Hashim Amla - 2091
David Warner - 1401
Steve Smith - 1350
George Bailey - 1087
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