Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

A HUGELY busy week with all players except Rishabh Pant (obvs), Sam Curran and Jos Buttler playing....and A LOT Of movement too.

Weekly List

1. Simon Harmer - 533 - Completes two County Championship games which helps boost his score - but he performed very well in the pair of them. This marks the third highest weekly score ever; meaning that Harmer has 2 of the Top 3 highest scores registered.

2. Shakib Al Hasan - 332 - As predicted, Shakib is doing rather well in the Global T20 Canda league. In two thirds of the weeks we have had this year, this would have been a winning total but Shakib will have to accept second.

3. Ravindra Jadeja - 287 - Triple figure scores from his Test outing and his ODI match means that Jadeja gives himself a healthy bump to his total this week. This third place finish for the week would have been enough for Jadeja to have won in 18 weeks of this year.

4. Jonny Bairstow - 219 - By some distance, Bairstow's highest score of the year so far....and what a bittersweet points total it is for the man who has had something of a turbulent Ashes series.

5. Marco Jansen - 175 - Jansen is doing what you do in a Franchise T20 tournament. Turning up, playing decently in a large number of games and boosting your total. Accordingly, finishes in the top 5 in back-to-back weeks for the first time.

Overall

1. Simon Harmer - 3453 - It has taken 30 weeks but Harmer is back in top spot. Strange what half a thousand points can do for you. That being said, his lead on second place isn't hugely comfortable as he goes into the One Day Cup.

2. Shakib Al Hasan - 3339 - Amongst all the chaos (and despite his own massive score) Shakib is the only member of the Top 5 to retain his place this week. Has a bit of a lead on second place again so should be looking up not down.

3. Shubman Gill - 3093 - His lean spell has finally caught up with him as he loses his nine week long control of top spot and plummets down to third place.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 3077 - Had drifted out of the Top 5 for a month but is back with a bang. He skips his most favoured position of 5th to return back in 4th place.

5. Jos Buttler - 2976 - Inactive again this week and is in danger of leaving the Top 5 for the first time since the third week of January.

Other Movers

Harry Brook's decent last two Ashes Tests have seen him move up a place to 15th.

Ones To Watch

Harry Brook and Usman Khawaja have 1 point between them as they approach the end of the final Ashes Test. Who will prevail? You expect there is more for Usman to lose in this one than Harry.

Top 3 Averages

1. Shakib Al Hasan - 185.5 (Up from 176.88)
2. Simon Harmer - 172.65 (Up from 153.68)
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 170.94 (Up from 164.1)

Simon Harmer's humungous score improves his average by nearly 19 points and move shim into second place overall. Pat Cummins' bad day at the office sees him drop out of the Top 3 due to losing 16.3 points from his average.


Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 2616
One Day - Shakib Al Hasan = 1248
Short Form = Rashid Khan = 2776

Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 1963
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 360
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 600

Wickets - Rashid Khan & *Simon Harmer = 1400
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer = 700

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 450
Fielding Bonus - Jonny Bairstow = 80

Weekly

Simon Harmer 533
Shakib Al Hasan 332
Ravindra Jadeja 287
Jonny Bairstow 219
Marco Jansen 175
Moeen Ali 154
Devon Conway 94
Rashid Khan 84
Harry Brook 81
Cam Green 79
David Warner 70
Shubman Gill 56
Hardik Pandya 45
Babar Azam 39
Pat Cummins 31
Usman Khawaja 31
Suryakumar Yadav 19

Rishabh Pant dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Sam Curran dnp

Overall

1 Simon Harmer 3453
2 Shakib Al Hasan 3339
3 Shubman Gill 3093
4 Ravindra Jadeja 3077
5 Jos Buttler 2976
6 Rashid Khan 2934
7 Sam Curran 2870
8 Devon Conway 2620
9 Suryakumar Yadav 1939
10 Babar Azam 1894
11 Marco Jansen 1859
12 Hardik Pandya 1840
13 Moeen Ali 1794
14 Cam Green 1653
15 Harry Brook 1542
16 Usman Khawaja 1541
17 David Warner 1479
18 Pat Cummins 1161
19 Jonny Bairstow 800

Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 217 - Jadeja snaffled a double tonne of points without really breaking sweat in India's comprehensive First Test victory over West Indies to end his month long inactive spell.

2. Devon Conway - 154 - Conway more than made up for his 0 point game against Washington with 77 from 55 and three contributions with the gloves in the game against New York.

3. Marco Jansen - 122 - is back scoring points again after a break of 2 months....but this score represents his total from 3 games of MLC cricket so is on the more disappointing end of the spectrum.

4. Rashid Khan- 79 - I can comfortably say that few players in the history of cricket have played a match in Sylhet and a match in Dallas in the same week but that just typifies modern cricket and Rashid Khan's life. Expect more pyrotechnics in coming weeks of the MLC from Rashid

5. Shakib Al Hasan - 78 - A much more meagre return from Shakib this week but still just tips into the Top 5. Is about to join up with the Montreal Tigers in the Global T20 Canada League...you would suspect he will do some real damage there.

Weekly Update

1. Shubman Gill - 3037 - The 36 points he scored in the First Test against the West Indies were disapointing but allows him to hold onto first place. His lead is just 30 now.

2. Shakib Al Hasan - 3007 - It took Shakib just two weeks from his return to cricket to surge from 6th place back up to 2nd. With the....perhaps....slightly less rigorous standard of the Global T20 Canada competition, he may well be back up to top next week.

3. Jos Buttler - Inactive this week and down a spot to third. The Hundred is next for him. 

4. Simon Harmer - 2950 - Could not polish off Kent soon enough to be included in this week's update so remains in fourth with the 71 points he got in his two outings on T20 Blast Finals Day.

5. Sam Curran - 2870 - Only 25 points in a disappointing T20 Finals Day for Surrey and their captain. Has Rashid Khan breathing down his neck.

Ones to Watch

The Top 5 is in a massive state of flux at the moment. There are only 247 points between 1st and 7th and everyone in that mix will play over the next week with the exception of Buttler and Curran.

Top 3 Averages

1. Shakib Al Hasan - 176.88 (Down from 183.06)
2. Ravindra Jadeja - 164.12 (Up from 160.81)
3. Pat Cummins - 161.43

Shubman Gill's average takes the biggest tumble - down 6.88 to 159.84 - and he moves out of the overall Top 3. Jadeja's average improves the most - up 3.31 points to 164.12 - and he replaces Gill in second place.

Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 2083
One Day - Shakib Al Hasan = 1248
Short Form = Rashid Khan = 2692

Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 1917
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 360
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 600

Wickets - Rashid Khan = 1380
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer & *Ravindra Jadeja = 210
Economy - Simon Harmer = 580

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 450
Fielding Bonus - Jonny Bairstow = 60

Weekly List In Full

Ravindra Jadeja 217
Devon Conway 154
Marco Jansen 122
Rashid Khan 79
Shakib Al Hasan 78
Babar Azam 77
Simon Harmer 71
Suryakumar Yadav 42
Shubman Gill 36
Sam Curran 25

Rishabh Pant dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Cam Green dnp
Pat Cummins dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
David Warner dnp

Overall List

Rank Player Points
1 Shubman Gill 3037
2 Shakib Al Hasan 3007
3 Jos Buttler 2976
4 Simon Harmer 2950
5 Sam Curran 2870
6 Rashid Khan 2850
7 Ravindra Jadeja 2790
8 Devon Conway 2526
9 Suryakumar Yadav 1920
10 Babar Azam 1894
11 Hardik Pandya 1795
12 Marco Jansen 1684
13 Moeen Ali 1640
14 Cam Green 1574
15 Usman Khawaja 1510
16 Harry Brook 1461
17 David Warner 1409
18 Pat Cummins 1130
19 Jonny Bairstow 581

Shakib Al Hasan - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Update

1. Shakib Al Hasan - 263 - Love him of loathe him the Bangladesh captain is irrepressible. Shrugs off 6 inactive weeks with his 4th Cricketer of the Week award od 2023. Nobody has more.

2. Pat Cummins - 201 - When Cummins plays he finishes in the weekly Top 5. It is as simple as that. Is eating into that deficit to 17th place Overall - it is now just 279 points.

3. Harry Brook - 128 - One of our disappointments this year (this is just his third Weekly Top 5 finish) - however his Ashes saving knock will live long in the memory. He moves up a place overall to 16th.

4. Moeen Ali - 115 - The cult hero pops up into the Top 5 for the first time in Red Ball Cricket this year - largely thanks to a brace in the second Australian innings of the Third Test. Goes up 2 places overall to 12th.

5. Devon Conway - 115 - A new competition for our list. 115 points for the Texas Super Kings in the Major League Cricket mark Conway's first points since the end of the IPL.

Overall List

1. Shubman Gill - 3001 - Will be back in action in next week's update and still holding on to Top Spot despite a month off

2. Jos Buttler - 2976 - His T20 Blast journey is over but he has used it to bring himself back up to second...however is lead on third is just 47 so he has not forced his agenda as much as he would have liked.

3. Shakib Al Hasan - 2929 - Only the two weeks out of the Top 5 for Shakib as he jumps from 6th to 3rd thanks to 2 ODIs and a T20 this week.

4. Simon Harmer - 2879 - An underwhelming return to County Championship Action for Harmer, however he holds fourth spot.

5. Sam Curran - 2845 - An uncharacteristically meagre return from Curran, however Finals Day might yield a fair few point for Curran. He has slipped two places to 5th.

Other Movers

Two players at the bottom end of the Top 10 moved up a place this week. Suryakumar Yadav's return to red ball cricket sees him up to 9th whilst Babar Azam ends 2 months off to move back into the Top Ten.

Top 3 Averages

1. Shakib Al Hasan - 183.06 (Up from 177.73)
2. Shubman Gill - 166.72
3. Pat Cummins - 161.43 (Up from 154.83)

Mixed weeks for our Aussies. Cummins is up the most - improving his average by 6.6.....in contrast Usman Khawaja leaks 6.35 points to 125.83.

Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 2083
One Day - Shakib Al Hasan = 1248
Short Form = Rashid Khan = 2643

Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 1911
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 360
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 600

Wickets - Rashid Khan = 1380
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 210
Economy - Simon Harmer = 580

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 450
Fielding Bonus - Jonny Bairstow = 60

Weekly List In Full

Shakib Al Hasan 263
Pat Cummins 201
Harry Brook 128
Rashid Khan 119
Moeen Ali 116
Devon Conway 115
Babar Azam 99
Suryakumar Yadav 99
Simon Harmer 95
Jos Buttler 72
Jonny Bairstow 67
Usman Khawaja 56
Sam Curran 27
David Warner 25

Rishabh Pant dnp
Marco Jansen dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Cam Green dnp

Overall List

1 Shubman Gill 3001
2 Jos Buttler 2976
3 Shakib Al Hasan 2929
4 Simon Harmer 2879
5 Sam Curran 2845
6 Rashid Khan 2801
7 Ravindra Jadeja 2573
8 Devon Conway 2372
9 Suryakumar Yadav 1878
10 Babar Azam 1817
11 Hardik Pandya 1795
12 Moeen Ali 1640
13 Cam Green 1574
14 Marco Jansen 1562
15 Usman Khawaja 1510
16 Harry Brook 1461
17 David Warner 1409
18 Pat Cummins 1130
19 Jonny Bairstow 581