Steve Smith - The Best Cricketer of the Week

Movers

Virat Kohli - 41 - Despite a score that sees him outside the top 5 for points this week, Kohli still manages to jump two places. He moves up to 13th at the expense of Travis Head and Shubman Gill.

David Warner - 99 - Despite being the least pyrotechnic of the Aussie batsmen in their first ODI against India, Warner benefits the most. He moves into the Top 5 for the first time since January. Jason Holder drops out of the Top 5.

Aaron Finch - 164 - Finch averaged 35.67 per IPL game but looked a changed man in the first ODI against India. He moves up a place into 7th with Harmer moving down one.

Glenn Maxwell - 95 - The Big Show was back in town as Maxwell put his poor IPL form behind him to move into 11th place - overtaking Keshav Maharaj.

Weekly Top Five

1. Steve Smith - 175 - Smith enjoys the opening game of a tournament. After scoring 109 points in his first IPL game, he started to fade away. His Cricketer of the Week winning knock in the first ODI v India is most impressive but can he sustain this level of performance?

2. Aaron Finch - 164 - The Australia captain has an uncanny knack of pulling out a big performance when it is most needed of him. After an underwhelming IPL, he was back to his best here. One of only two players to increase their weekly average this week.

3. David Warner - 99 - Big things were expected of Warner after a successful IPL campaign. 99 is a decent score but looks under baked compared to other performances.

4. Glenn Maxwell - 95 - According to many Maxwell's position was at threat in this ODI series. I doubt if that is the case anymore. His middle order explosiveness pushed the game to unmanageable proportions for India.

5. Joe Root - 85 - It is perhaps ironic that the fifth highest score for the week came from a player who we all knew would not feature in the T20 series between England and South Africa. A score of 45 at a decent lick sees Root into fifth spot.

Yearly Top Five

1. Babar Azam - 3082 - Remains in top spot despite having not played this week. His lead on Stokes is now 203.

2. Ben Stokes - 2879 - A meagre 80 points from Stokes this week as he played second fiddle to Jonny Bairstow. He still eats into the deficit from top spot.

3. Joe Root - 2512 - Just the 85 points from a warm up game for Root. As the year draws in it is starting to look like third might be Root's eventual final score.

4. Lewis Gregory - 2248 - Suffered the indignity of scoring a pure 0 in the final intra-squad friendly. Hits his average score per week considerably (moving down to 124.89 from 132.24) - however he retains fourth spot for the year.

5. David Warner - 2167 - Warner has only been in the Top 5 once in 2020 but has moved back in just as the year comes to an end. A good antipodean Summer could see him make even more progress.

Week

Steve Smith - 175
Aaron Finch - 164
David Warner - 99
Glenn Maxwell - 95
Joe Root - 85
Ben Stokes- 80
Virat Kohli- 41
Tom Banton- 17
Kyle Abbott - 10
Martin Guptill- 5
Marnus Labuschagne- 2
Lewis Gregory - 0

Colin Ackermann- dnp
Babar Azam - dnp
Shubman Gill - dnp
Peter Handscomb - dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Travis Head- dnp
Jason Holder- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Mohammad Nabi- dnp
Rohit Sharma- dnp

Overall

Babar Azam - 3082
Ben Stokes - 2879
Joe Root - 2512
Lewis Gregory - 2248
David Warner - 2167
Jason Holder- 2147
Aaron Finch - 2045
Simon Harmer - 1922
Marnus Labuschagne - 1857
Steve Smith - 1856
Glenn Maxwell - 1660
Keshav Maharaj - 1577
Virat Kohli - 1568
Travis Head - 1526
Shubman Gill - 1522
Martin Guptill - 1515
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Tom Banton - 1093
Rohit Sharma - 1035
Peter Handscomb - 617
Kyle Abbott - 10