Moeen Ali - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Only two players to complete games so far this week but quite a few shifts to consider.

Moeen Ali gets his inaugural Cricketer of the Week accolade, not for tearing it up in Chennai but for warming up for the Blast in a Worcestershire 2nd XI game at Barnt Green. His 82 points is now the lowest weekly high score since the start of 2019. He moves up 2 spots to 11th.

Peter Handscomb was the only other active player in the last week. His OK-ish score of 62 against Leicestershire is enough to see him jump 2 places and knock Ashwin out the Top 5. Handscomb has been 5th for 6 weeks out of the last 12 but never stays there longer than a fortnight.

Apart from Handscomb, the Top 5 remains unchanged

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 2115
2. Joe Root - 2039
3. Simon Harmer - 1708
4. Babar Azam - 1595
5. Peter Handscomb - 1495

Excitingly, all of those top 4 will be completing games over the next few days so it could all change.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 2039
50 Over - Nicholas Pooran - 431
T20 - Glenn Maxwell - 1294

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 213.5
2. Ravichandran Ashwin - 185.63
3. Joe Root - 169.92

Despite top-scoring for the week, Ali's score of 82 hit his previous average of 174 points per active week quite hard. He drops out of the Top 3 and is replaced by Joe Root.

Highest Points by Discipline

Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1185
Batting Bonus - *Joe Root = 210
Strike Rate - Glenn Maxwell - 280

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 720
Wicket Bonus - Ravichandran Ashwin and Simon Harmer - 170
Economy - * Simon Harmer - 390

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 290
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 60

Longest Inactive Player

Ben Stokes (7 weeks)

Week

Moeen Ali - 82
Peter Handscomb- 62

Ravichandran Ashwin- dnp
Babar Azam - dnp
Jasprit Bumrah - dnp
Quinton De Kock - dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Dawid Malan- dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Nicholas Pooran- dnp
Joe Root- dnp
Peter Siddle- dnp
Steve Smith- dnp
Ben Stokes- dnp
David Warner - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp

Total

Marnus Labuschagne- 2115
Joe Root - 2039
Simon Harmer - 1708
Babar Azam - 1594
Peter Handscomb- 1495
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
Peter Siddle - 1406
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Virat Kohli- 1210
Nicholas Pooran - 1127
Moeen Ali - 1126
Ben Stokes - 1057
Steve Smith - 1010
Kane Williamson - 885
David Warner - 842
Quinton de Kock - 829
Dawid Malan - 791
Jasprit Bumrah - 539