Joe Root - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 3

1. Joe Root - 201 - The second week in a row that Honest Joe has found himself in the top spot. He is also zoning in on some personal records too. He is just 6 points behind Labuschagne for most runs scored and 30 points off Azam for Batting Bonus points.

2. Babar Azam - 158 - Babar's test performance is what is holding him back from being a true all format great. Before this week he had scored just 10% of his runs in Test matches. This is (by some distance) his highest Test score of the year.

3. Virat Kohli - 92 - With his average of 92.56 and his 13th place on the overall List, this is not looking like Virat's year. He has done enough to finish in the Top 3 this week.

Other Movers

I marked Nicholas Pooran out as one to watch last week and after just one CPL game he has jumped 2 places to 9th. He has left Handscomb and Stokes behind him.

Dawid Malan is another player to have not finished in the Top 3 but still made movement up the Overall List. His 7th place finish for the week is the highest he has been since February.

Overall Top 5

It is now the sixth week in a row where the top 5 has stayed the same.

Marnus Labuschagne 3833
Simon Harmer 3667
Joe Root 3487
Babar Azam 2919
Quinton De Kock 2540

Root, who has been in third place now for 7 weeks is zoning in on some upward movement with his performances in Eng v Ind. There is now 180 points between him and Harmer. He is just 346 off Marnus Labuschagne's top spot. We could see that Top 3 looking much more fluid soon.

What we will not see any time soon is anyone outside that Top 3 break in. There is 568 points between third placed Root and 4th placed Azam. This is the second biggest gap on the List after the 570 between Moeen Ali and Dawid Malan.

Highest Players by Format


Long Form - Joe Root - 3013
50 Over - Simon Harmer - 954
T20 - Babar Azam - 1897

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 193
2. Marnus Labuschagne - 191.65
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 189.4

Joe Root''s average has improved again - this time by 1.95 points. This has seen his average raise by 13.79 points since the start of the Eng v Ind series. Moeen Ali's transition from The Hundred to Tests has seen his average drop 5.62 points to 147.82.

Highest Points by Discipline
* = New Name

Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 2023
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 400
Strike Rate - Moeen Ali - 510

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 1600
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 810

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 590
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 100

Longest Inactive

David Warner (17 weeks)

Weekly

Joe Root 201
Babar Azam 158
Virat Kohli 92
Dawid Malan 90
Jasprit Bumrah 71
Moeen Ali 58
Nicholas Pooran 52

Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Ravichandran Ashwin dnp
Ben Stokes dnp
Peter Handscomb dnp
Peter Siddle dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Kane Williamson dnp
Steve Smith dnp
David Warner dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Quinton De Kock dnp

Overall

Marnus Labuschagne 3833
Simon Harmer 3667
Joe Root 3487
Babar Azam 2919
Quinton De Kock 2540
Moeen Ali 2513
Dawid Malan 1943
Ravichandran Ashwin 1894
Nicholas Pooran 1770
Ben Stokes 1765
Peter Handscomb 1740
Peter Siddle 1577
Virat Kohli 1481
Glenn Maxwell 1288
Jasprit Bumrah 1267
Kane Williamson 1020
Steve Smith 1010
David Warner 842