Travis Head - The Best cricketer of the Week

 

Overall Top 5

1. Travis Head - 239 - Seemingly the only thing stopping Travis Head's dominance over the last section of the year is his own groin. He has now scored 579 points over the last three Tests. One more Test in him this year.

2. Babar Azam - 187 - Has seemingly been on the cusp of being out in the wilderness over the last few months but came back with a bang this week with 2 decent scores out of three games.

3. Steve Smith - 145 - Undoubtably a bad year for Smith but ends with a century and a third place score for the week. Next week is likely to be his last foray on these Lists.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 117 - Another one of the weeks where he surprised with the bat rather than with his normal bowling prowess. Only 17% of his points came from bowling this week.

5. Daryl Mitchell - 114 - Bags his 4th 3 figure score in his last 5 active weeks. Even those 617 points haven't seem him get any higher than 18th place.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - Inactive this week and the lad is now down to 167. Tight.

2. James Vince - 4514 - Such is the slow burn of the BBL, that Vince has only played a solitary game and eaten only 60 points into the gap on 1st.

3. Travis Head - 4125 - Is averaging 193 points per Test and is 389 points adrift of second place.....is going to fall just outside the Top 2 for the year. The bronze position is certainly his though as he is 556 points above 4th.

4. Phil Salt - 3569 - Inactive this week but holds onto 4th by just 79 points.

5. Babar Azam - 3490 - Reclaims the fifth place position he lose a month ago thanks to the ongoing inactivity of Sam Curran who has held that position for the last three weeks.

Other Mover

In a low scoring week, Rachin Ravindra's 62 was enough to see him finish 6th and also saw him overtake Moeen into 11th.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.16 (Down from 129.67)

Travis Head's weekly top score sees his average improve by 3.56; he now averages 125 points a week. Labuschagne moves down the most, down 3.9 to 118.36.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Ravindra Jadeja - 2355
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 470
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List In Full

Travis Head 239
Babar Azam 187
Steve Smith 145
Ravindra Jadeja 117
Daryl Mitchell 114
Rachin Ravindra 62
James Vince 60
Mitchell Marsh 47
Virat Kohli 43
Glenn Maxwell 35
Usman Khawaja 29
Harry Brook 21
Marnus Labuschagne 13
Shubman Gill 11
Yashasvi Jaiswal 8

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Phil Salt dnp

Overall list In Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4514
Travis Head 4125
Phil Salt 3569
Babar Azam 3490
Sam Curran 3460
Harry Brook 3389
Marnus Labuschagne 3314
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3269
Ravindra Jadeja 3229
Rachin Ravindra 2953
Moeen Ali 2893
Simon Harmer 2808
Jos Buttler 2801
Shubman Gill 2511
Glenn Maxwell 2459
Virat Kohli 2315
Daryl Mitchell 2232
Mitchell Marsh 1893
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1717
Usman Khawaja 1051

Harry Brook - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Harry Brook - 268 - For the second time in a fortnight, the fourth time this year and the fifth time ever Brook finishes as Cricketer of the Week. He also surges up to just outside the Overall Top 5. A huge improvement on his 14th place finish last year.

2. Travis Head - 200 - Last time out he got 140 points...now he got 140 runs and finishes on a round 200 for the week.

3. Marnus Labuschagne - 94 - Huge gap in terms of points between second and third this week. Nobody can say that 64 runs is a return to form for Marnus but it is surely better than nothing.

4. Shubman Gill - 59 - 59 runs this week and 59 points, nothing from the field, no strike rate points just pure batting mediocrity from the man who finished third last year and has looked underwhelming this.

5. Daryl Mitchell - 58 - Three successive weeks in the Top 5 for Mitchell. This is by some distance is most disappointing of the lot. Only in the Top 5 due to the fact that this week's average score (68.58) is the lowest for 2 months.

Overall Top 5

For the third successive week the Top 5 remains unchanged at:

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4454
Travis Head 3886
Phil Salt 3569
Sam Curran 3460

Could we have an exciting finish like last year where long time leader Shakib Al Hasan got usurped with a week to spare. Vince could do it with a decent start to the BBL....and can we even rule Travis Head out?

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.67

Again harry Brook moves up the most, has added 10 points to his average over the last fortnight. Babar Azam's score of 0 sees him drop further away from the Top 3 - 122.33 puts him 5th.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Harry Brook = 2247
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 430
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List in Full

Harry Brook 268
Travis Head 200
Marnus Labuschagne 94
Shubman Gill 59
Daryl Mitchell 58
Usman Khawaja 42
Yashasvi Jaiswal 34
Steve Smith 22
Rachin Ravindra 19
Virat Kohli 18
Mitchell Marsh 9
Babar Azam 0

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
James Vince dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Phil Salt dnp

Overall list In Full

1 Chamari Athapaththu 4681
2 James Vince 4454
3 Travis Head 3886
4 Phil Salt 3569
5 Sam Curran 3460
6 Harry Brook 3368
7 Babar Azam 3303
8 Marnus Labuschagne 3301
9 Yashasvi Jaiswal 3261
10 Ravindra Jadeja 3112
11 Moeen Ali 2893
12 Rachin Ravindra 2891
13 Simon Harmer 2808
14 Jos Buttler 2801
15 Shubman Gill 2500
16 Glenn Maxwell 2424
17 Virat Kohli 2272
18 Daryl Mitchell 2118
19 Mitchell Marsh 1846
20 Aaron Hardie 1774
21 Steve Smith 1572
22 Usman Khawaja 1022

Harry Brook - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Harry Brook - 241 - The man of the moment is the man of the week with yet another ton. Surprisingly this is only his this Cricketer of the Week from his 26 active weeks in 2024. You would imagine we will be seeing more of him going into our 2025 Lists.

2. Moeen Ali - 173 - Last played for Guyana almost 2 months ago and then clocks back in for the same unit in the Global T20 League. 4 games in a week will always give you a bit of a boost. Moeen is the ultimate yo-yo-er and is back up to 11th on the Overall List.

3. Daryl Mitchell - 123 - Making hay in the antipodean sun whilst he has been scrabbling around in the dirt for most of the year. This is his second successive active week in the Top 5.

4. James Vince - 116 - Finishes his jolly up in Abu Dhabi having scored 484 in three weeks. Now onto the BBL; starting next weekend.

5. Shubman Gill - 80 - Hard to read much from this. Retired 50* in a two day Test warm-up game that was reduced to one day and was played the week after the First Test was over. Still enough for him to move up to 15th Overall.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - I could be wrong (it has been known) but I think that this might be Athapaththu's final total. I cannot see anymore cricket on the horizon for her in 2024. It doesn't feel enough for our first female cricketer to finish first.

2. James Vince - 4454 - Vince will finish second of first this year. 768 points sperate him to third and he has 4 BBL games between now and New Years Eve to overthrow the 227 point gap on first. He averages 80.25 per T20 game.

3. Travis Head - 3686 - Another week's rest (if that's the right word for a father of a month old baby. Back in action next week.

4. Phil Salt - 3569 - Did not end the Abu Dhabi T10 competition with the pyrotechnics we saw throughout the rest of the tournament but keeps his fourth place spot.

5. Sam Curran - 3460 - Inactive again...you feel he may finish 2024 outside the Top 5. Jaiswal is 233 points away from him, Labuschagne 253, Jadeja 348 and Brook 360.

Other Mover

45 points in the 'warm-up' game against an Australian Prime Minister's XI was enough to see him overtake Labuschagne into 8th.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05 (Down from 143.26)
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.67 (Down from 132.39)

Seems cruel, if not also very funny, that Kohli not batting or fielding gets him 0 points in a warm up game and sees his average drop by a smidge over 4 points to 93.92. Harry Brook's goes up the most, +4.87 to 119.23.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 2235
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 400
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List in Full

Harry Brook 241
Moeen Ali 173
Daryl Mitchell 123
James Vince 116
Shubman Gill 80
Jos Buttler 79
Ravindra Jadeja 67
Rachin Ravindra 58
Yashasvi Jaiswal 45
Phil Salt 24
Virat Kohli 0

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Travis Head dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Steve Smith dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp

Overall List In Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4454
Travis Head 3686
Phil Salt 3569
Sam Curran 3460
Babar Azam 3303
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3227
Marnus Labuschagne 3207
Ravindra Jadeja 3112
Harry Brook 3100
Moeen Ali 2893
Rachin Ravindra 2872
Simon Harmer 2808
Jos Buttler 2801
Shubman Gill 2441
Glenn Maxwell 2424
Virat Kohli 2254
Daryl Mitchell 2060
Mitchell Marsh 1837
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1550
Usman Khawaja 980