Friday 1 March 2024

Babar Azam - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 



This week marks the leanest full week of the year with only 980 points scored by 9 cricketers. Accordingly only a Weekly Top 3 this week.


Weekly Round-Up

1. Babar Azam - 320 - The master of the half century did not score one this week but did score 111 and 48 so I guess it averages out. His first Cricketer of the Week of the year....he got 4 last year and has the 2nd most of anyone over the 6 years we've played this game.

2. Ravindra Jadeja - 206 - Quiet with the bat this time out but made up for it with 5 wickets in the 4th Test against England. Is really easing himself into an untouchable position in terms of his bowling points.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 140 - 'Just' 110 runs for Jaiswal in the 4th Test for India, but finds himself near the top of the tree once more.

Overall Top 5

1. Babar Azam - 1453 - Was already top before he won Cricketer of the Week this week. The 362 points between him and second place is the largest gap on the List. Could be hard to displace during the PSL.

2. James Vince - 1091 - Missed a game thanks to a virus that spread through the Karachi camp. His 65 points from 2 games sees him just about hold off the charge of the Indian test contingent chasing him for second place.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 1085 - Retains third place for a second successive week but has narrowed the gap to just 8 points. There is also a rather chunky 248 points between him and fourth so will be looking up rather than down.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 837 - Doing exactly what he did last year and moving up the List in fits and starts. Once he got in the Top 5 last year he was very difficult to displace. Skips his favoured fifth place and bursts straight into 4th.

5. Jos Buttler - 798 - Another week of inactivity and hands on to the Top 5 by a thread. Rachin Ravindra is just 3 points adrift and Maxwell a further 10 points away.

Other Movers

Two players scored outside the Top 3 but still moved up. Gill got the only other score of three figures and jumped from 14th to 10th whilst Travis Head's 53 was enough to move him up two places to 15th.

Ones To Watch

Rachin Ravindra is in Test action this week and has just lost his Top 5 spot. He is 3 off 5th, 42 off 4th and, slightly more ambitiously, 290 off third.

Top 3 Average Points per Active Week

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 209.25 (Down from 210.33)
2. Babar Azam - 207.57 (Up from 188.83)
3. Jos Buttler - 199.5

For the second successive week, Steve Smith's average decreases the most. A drop of 14.1 this week means he has leaked 29 points off his average over the last fortnight. Babar Azam's highest scoring week thus far sees his average improve to over 200 per week.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Yashasvi Jaiswal = 943
One Day = Marnus Labuschagne = 152
Short Form = Babar Azam - 1384

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Babar Azam = 843
Batting Bonus -Babar Azam - 170
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 310

Wickets - Ravindra Jadeja - 340
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja - 70
Economy - *Ravindra Jadeja - 310

Fielding - James Vince = 140
Fielding Bonus - Yashasvi Jaiswal & James Vince & Glenn Maxwell & Jos Buttler & Steve Smith & Babar Azam & Phil Salt & Shubman Gill = 10

Weekly Scores in Full

Babar Azam 320
Ravindra Jadeja 206
Yashasvi Jaiswal 140
Shubman Gill 110
James Vince 65
Glenn Maxwell 60
Travis Head 53
Moeen Ali 22
Steve Smith 4

Harry Brook dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Babar Azam 1453
2 James Vince 1091
3 Yashasvi Jaiswal 1085
4 Ravindra Jadeja 837
5 Jos Buttler 798
6 Rachin Ravindra 795
7 Glenn Maxwell 788
8 Moeen Ali 733
9 Chamari Athapaththu 629
10 Shubman Gill 581
11 Marnus Labuschagne 559
12 Sam Curran 551
13 Aaron Hardie 521
14 Mitchell Marsh 510
15 Travis Head 495
16 Daryl Mitchell 447
17 Steve Smith 447
18 Phil Salt 443
19 Simon Harmer 250
20 Usman Khawaja 240
21 Virat Kohli 147


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