When it comes to weeks where there is County cricket, Simon Harmer is always expected to claim Cricketer of the Week. And so it has come to pass this week. Our all time highest point scorer registered another 300+ score this week (his eight ever) and claimed Cricketer of the Week (his third of the year and eighteenth ever). When it comes to the red ball competitions Harmer is king. However he is starting to become exposed in relation to his T20 game. Despite that magnificent T20 win last year for Essex, Harmer has now had two back to back failures. First the 2019 Mzansi Super League and now this year's T20 Blast. The extent of Harmer's lack of form can be compared to another player from our list. Colin Ackermann is built in the Harmer mound - and by comparing the two we can have some idea of how Harmer racks up. In terms of raw totals, Harmer is in charge. Since the start of the tournament Harmer had picked up 230 points compared to Ackermann's 158. But this is flawed as Ackermann has played far fewer games. Before last night's fixtures, Harmer had the lead on average points per game too. His 57.5 bettered Ackermann's 20 from two games. However last night, Harmer got a score of zero against Surrey whilst Ackermann got 118 against Yorkshire. This meant that Ackermann's average is now 52.67 compared to Harmer's 46. In terms of T20 cricket their is little difference between the two. Yet such is Harmer's red ball prowess that he has just moved into fourth position whilst Ackermann is in 16th . What may be concerning is that Essex have one final Bob Willis Trophy game and a limited number of Blast games. After that (as far as I can see) Harmer's year is over. He will need to get a characteristically huge score against Somerset in the final to cement his top ten place in this year's list.
The T20 leg of Australia's tour of England is over and the ODIs have begun. Thus far there have been two big beneficiaries representative of both of those formats. In T20 it was Aaron Finch that impressed the most out of the five featured players on our list. He outperformed in all relevant categories except for fielding where Smith prevailed. In the run column (the only one that really matters in T20) he was way ahead with 125. Ironically Warner was in second place despite the fact he only scored a run in the first T20 before getting a duck and not featuring in the final game. This has seen Finch move up three places on the overall list to eighth spot. With a change of format, comes a change of form for Finch. After yesterday's opening ODI, Finch has found himself out performed by two other players: Marnus Labuschagne and, most notably, Glenn Maxwell. Maxwell's T20 haul of 123 looks decent - but only 26.83% of those came from the bat. He certainly addressed that concern yesterday. His score of 77 plus three contributions in the field puts him in first place out of the five players who featured in that game. This performance has seen the Victorian move up two places into 13th. If he keeps this T20 form up for the rest of the series and into the IPL, he could be a challenging for a top five berth soon enough.
Once upon a time you could be safe in the knowledge that most players on our list would feature in a similar number of games. Corona has put a stop to this. This has seen a huge disparity in terms of active game weeks in 2020 - from 16 out of 35 to 0 in the case of Kyle Abbott. One of the chiefs beneficiaries of this is Lewis Gregory. The Somerset all-Rounder has had a poor year. His chances in the ODI squad looks to have come to an end after a series of poor performances. However he has just moved into the top five of the year - above much more illustrious company. The reason for this is the sheer number of games that Gregory has played. In 2020 Gregory has been active thirteen out of 35 weeks. This puts him in joint third with Joe Root - only Babar Azam with 14 and Tom Banton with 16 have more. When you divide his total score by those active weeks, it does not make pretty reading for Gregory. His average active weekly score of 118.31 puts him in a lowly 16th position. So Gregory has played a lot and played averagely across the year and moves into the top five. There are other players that this reflects even worse on. Banton is another player who has not built up on their 2019 promises. This is shown in his average. He is second bottom with 65.50. Peter Handscomb is one below him with the lowest average score of 47.88 from his eight weeks. The bottom three is rounded off by Virat Kohli with 87.67 across nine weeks. The top of the table is to be expected. Simon Harmer is number one with an average weekly score of 309.2 with Ben Stokes in second with 200.36 in his 11 active weeks. Colin Ackermann should be very pleased with his weekly active average of 182.20 which rounds off the top 3.
That list in full:
Harmer 309.2
Stokes 200.36
Ackermann 182.2
Holder 153.73
Root 147.15
Maharaj 146.25
Nabi 143.7
Maxwell 143.5
Labuschagne 139.89
Head 128.71
Gill 125.33
Guptill 124.3
Finch 120.73
Warner 118.67
Gregory 118.31
Sharma 117.75
Smith 105.45
Azam 94.64
Kohli 87.67
Banton 65.5
Handscomb 47.88
Abbott n/a
Week
Simon Harmer - 329
Lewis Gregory - 328
Glenn Maxwell - 219
Colin Ackermann - 186
Aaron Finch - 155
Jason Holder- 119
David Warner - 114
Mohammad Nabi - 111
Marnus Labuschagne- 41
Steve Smith - 33
Tom Banton - 14
Joe Root - 1
Babar Azam - 0
Kyle Abbott - dnp
Shubman Gill - dnp
Martin Guptill - dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Travis Head- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Rohit Sharma- dnp
Ben Stokes- dnp
Overall
Ben Stokes - 2204
Joe Root - 1912
Jason Holder- 1691
Simon Harmer - 1546
Lewis Gregory - 1538
Babar Azam - 1535
Mohammad Nabi - 1437
Aaron Finch - 1328
Marnus Labuschagne - 1259
Martin Guptill - 1243
Keshav Maharaj - 1176
Steve Smith - 1160
Glenn Maxwell - 1148
David Warner - 1068
Tom Banton - 1048
Colin Ackermann -911
Travis Head - 901
Virat Kohli - 787
Shubman Gill - 752
Rohit Sharma - 471
Peter Handscomb - 383
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