Moeen Ali - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

Only a Top 3 this week as only 6 players featured; two of whom scored the same number of points. This does not include Malan's game on Friday night.

1. Moeen Ali - 165 - Moeen uses The Hundred to lift himself to top spot for the second time in three weeks. 4 of the bottom 12 Weekly Totals have been registered in the last 3 months.

2. Simon Harmer - 159 - During the English Summer Harms is always in the points. Finishes second, but is a mere 6 points off of first.

3. Nicholas Pooran - 122 - One big score in a WI v Aus series in which rain would have scored a lot of points sees Pooran in the Top 3.

Other Mover

The only mover on the table this week was Dawid Malan whose half century against the Birmingham Phoenix sees him up to 11th

Overall Top 5

For the third week in a row the overall Top 5 stays the same; so that's

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 3833
2. Simon Harmer - 3174
3. Joe Root - 2740
4. Babar Azam - 2656
5. Quinton De Kock - 2209

Marnus' dominance has been rather outrageous this year. He has been in top spot for the Last 16 weeks. At one point his lead was as large as 968 points - that is now down to 669. How unbridgeable will that gap be?

At the same time that Marnus first graced the top of The List, Simon Harmer was in bottom place. His improvement has been steep.

Whilst the top 2 have stayed pretty stagnant, 3, 4 and 5 have been very fluid. Over the last 31 weeks there have been 22 different combinations of those three positions. This week is the first time three players have retained their respective places for three weeks on the trot.

The most fluid of these fluid places has been fifth place. De Kock holds 5th for the third week in a row, a feat that has only been achieved once before by Peter Handscomb in April. Moeen (in sixth) would need to score 129 points more than him this week to stop that

That being said, Azam is keeping fourth place warm for the last 12 weeks.

Highest Players by Format


Long Form - Joe Root - 2266
50 Over - Peter Handscomb - 613
T20 - Babar Azam - 1897

Top 3 Averages

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 191.65
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 189.4
3. Simon Harmer - 186.13 (Down from 187.81)

All very fine margins now; Pooran is the 'biggest' improvement on his average as he goes up by 1.56. Azam goes down by 3.33 since last week.

Highest Points by Discipline


Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 2023
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 370
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 460

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 1440
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 520
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 90

Longest Inactive

David Warner (14 weeks)

Week

Moeen Ali - 165
Simon Harmer - 159
Nicholas Pooran- 122
Quinton De Kock- 107
Babar Azam- 91
Dawid Malan - 91
Peter Handscomb - 55

Ravichandran Ashwin- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Joe Root- dnp
Peter Siddle- dnp
Steve Smith - dnp
Ben Stokes - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp


Total

Marnus Labuschagne- 3833
Simon Harmer - 3174
Joe Root - 2740
Babar Azam - 2656
Quinton de Kock - 2209
Moeen Ali - 2080
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1894
Ben Stokes - 1765
Peter Handscomb- 1724
Nicholas Pooran - 1718
Dawid Malan - 1671
Peter Siddle - 1577
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Virat Kohli- 1287
Kane Williamson - 1020
Steve Smith - 1010
David Warner - 842
Jasprit Bumrah - 694