Jasprit Bumrah - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Jasprit Bumrah - 328 - Bumrah started the week as our lowest scoring, least active player who also had the lowest average of any one on our List. He has subsequently top scored for the week, moved up 3 places overall and improved his average by 25 points. Not a bad week.

2. Simon Harmer - 301 - Here he is again. Harmer has scored 300+ points ten times in a week and finished as the highest point scorer in each of them. This time he will have to settle for second.

N.B. This score does not include his ongoing match vs Yorkshire.

3. Quinton De Kock - 239 - On-song QDK is one of the most valuable players in white ball cricket and the Southern Brave are reaping the benefits of this at the moment with 2 half century scores over the last week

4. Joe Root - 233 - Root is used to carrying the weight of his England team on his shoulders and was forced to do so again in the First Test. He is rewarded with a place in the Top 5.

5. Moeen Ali - 149 - A strange week for Moeen. After scoring the highest points total of The Hundred so far he is yoinked away to the Test side. Can he keep up his good run and challenge for a Top 5 position next week?

Other Mover

For the second week in a row, Dawid Malan's score is not high enough to feature in the Top 5 for the week but sees him move up the overall table. His 76 points sees him up to 9th.

Overall Top 5

For the first time in 2021 the Top 5 remains the same for the fourth week in a row.

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 3833
2. Simon Harmer - 3465
3. Joe Root - 2973
4. Babar Azam - 2656
5. Quinton De Kock - 2448

Labuschgane's lead on second place is now down to a mere 368. This is the lowest it has been for 9 weeks. With second placed Harmer averaging 192.5 points a week, we could see a new man at the summit by the end of the month.

Highest Players by Format
*= New Name

Long Form - Joe Root - 2499
50 Over - *Simon Harmer - 752
T20 - Babar Azam - 1897

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 192.5 (Up from 186.13)
2. Marnus Labuschagne - 191.65
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 189.4

As I have already mentioned, Bumrah's improvement of 25.09 is a huge boost. It has taken him off bottom spot and above Handscomb, Kohli, Malan, Williamson, Warner and Pooran in terms of average points per active week. Kohli's score of 0 from the First Test sees him fall by 7.07 points to 91.93 - the second lowest.

Highest Points by Discipline
* = New Name

Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 2023
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 370
Strike Rate - *Moeen Ali - 490

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 1540
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 770

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 530
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 90

Longest Inactive

David Warner (15 weeks)