Nicholas Pooran - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Final Full Weekly Top 5

1. Nicholas Pooran - 221 - We are very much in the midst of franchise cricket mania with competitions in Australia, Bangladesh, Dubai and South Africa. Pooran played four times in two of these competitions. Still 141 is a good haul for his fourth Cricketer of the Week of the year.

2. Travis Head - 220 - One point behind this week's 'best' cricketer courtesy of another huge score in another huge Ashes success. Moves up from 17th to 15th in what has otherwise been an underwhelming year.

3. Sam Curran - 166 - Just on his usual T20 grind. 66 runs and a wicket in three games in the ILT20 sees him in the Top 5 once more.

4. Kane Williamson - 161 - Finished off a Test match before kicking off a T20 tournament in South Africa ...and did pretty well in both. 91 points from the red ball game and 70 from the white ball one.

5. Jamie Smith - 152 - Probably his least disappointing disappointment across The Ashes. 82 runs and 4 contributions in the field.

Overall Top 5 with 5 days Left of the Year

1. Sam Curran -4951 - 657 point lead on second place. All but wrapped up that Curran will join Buttler as the second Englishman to win our Cricketer of the Year.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4294 - Inactive but very comfortable for a second place finish this year. The second year in a row a female cricketer has taken the silver medal.

3. Liam Dawson - 4061 - Got the indignity of a zero point week this week....but is one of the players who will be in action this week so it least he won't round of his year with a blob. Provides a slight symmetry though as his second weekly score was a zero to go along with his second to last.

4. Jos Buttler- 3972 - Had been inactive for 6 weeks and dropped from 2nd to 5th but just 60 points non Friday for Durban sees him back up a spot to 4th....89 off a bronze medal.

5.Ravindra Jadeja - 3966 - Was not part of the Indian gang that joined up to play domestic cricket in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and thus drops down a place.

Ones To Watch

Only 161 points separate Jamie Smith, Chamari Athapaththu, Travis Head, Liam Livingstone and Henrich Klaasen. All will be active over the next 5 days so all to play for,

Other Movers

Babar Azam's mini-Renaissance continues as he rises up to 15th place.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 150.03 (Up from 149.53)
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 136.76
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 136.1

Travis Head's big score sees his average improve by 4.8 ....but at 90.21 he has the fourth worst of anyone. Phil Salt's bad week sees him drop 3.4 and move down to 115.28.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran 4034

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Yashasvi Jaiswal = 2060
Batting Bonus - Passum Nissanka = 440
Strike Rate – Nicholas Pooran = 1010

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1640
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 750

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 630
Fielding Bonus - Jamie Smith, Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Nicholas Pooran 221
Travis Head 220
Sam Curran 166
Kane Williamson 161
Jamie Smith 152
Rishabh Pant 125
Harry Brook 125
Babar Azam 110
Jasprit Bumrah 70
Chamari Athapaththu 69
Jos Buttler 60
Saim Ayub 58
Heinrich Klaasen 53
Liam Livingstone 21
Adam Zampa 18
Phil Salt 10
Suryakumar Yadav 5
Liam Dawson 0

Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Annabel Sutherland dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Yashasvi Jaiwal dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp

Overall Scores In Full

1 Sam Curran 4951
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4294
3 Liam Dawson 4061
4 Jos Buttler 3972
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3966
6 Nicholas Pooran 3848
7 Phil Salt 3689
8 Annabel Sutherland 3460
9 Yashasvi Jaiwal 3218
10 Pathum Nissanka 3109
11 Harry Brook 3021
12 Kane Williamson 2911
13 Saim Ayub 2846
14 Jamie Smith 2630
15 Babar Azam 2549
16 Chamari Athapaththu 2532
17 Travis Head 2526
18 Liam Livingstone 2496
19 Heinrich Klaasen 2487
20 Wanindu Hasaranga 2463
21 Suryakumar Yadav 2263
22 Jasprit Bumrah 2078
23 Rishabh Pant 1977
24 Adam Zampa 1576

Sam Curran The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Just before the big fat man comes and gives you your goodies, let the mildly out of shape man let you know who has topped the bill on this the penultimate update of the year.

Weekly Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 350 - Almost every T20 Franchise tournament he turns out for, there will be a week where the Englishman pulls a madness. This week was that week. 130 runs and 4 wickets sees him claim his 5th Cricketer of the week this year - the second most of anyone.

2. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 245 - Part of a slew of Indian stars who returned to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for it's final stages and he very much made the most of it. Clearly the highlight of his week was the 101 against Haryana.

3. Liam Livingstone - 155 - Making the very most of the the last few weeks of the year. Over the last 5 weeks he has only not scored 100+ points once; in that time he has moved up from 19th to 15th place.

4. Phil Salt - 118 - Since the start of the Dubai based T20 tournaments five weeks ago, no player has scored more than Salt's 716 points; averaging 147.2 points a week. This week's had no discernible highlight with decent scores against the Vipers and the Gulf.

5. Nicholas Pooran - 116 - Two poor performances saved by a score of 48* in the ILT20 gives him fifth place and is our last 100+ scorer of the week.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4785 - Curran's lead was already looking decent.....and then he went and spoiled it all by doing something stupid and coring 350 points. Looks like we will have a new name on the Cricketer of the Year Trophy for 2025.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4294 - Was instrumental in Hobart's inaugural WBBL victory and got another 75 points in the final.

3. Liam Dawson - 4061 - Timed an absolute monster of an innings ( 38 off 14) just before the IPL auction.....it didn't work but it shores up his third place position.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 3966 - Inactive for the week.....and very possibly done for the year....always hard to tell with the vagaries of cricket fixtures.

5. Jos Buttler - 3912 - Inactive once more and has a gap of 233 between himself and Salt.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 149.53 (Up from 143.06)
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 136.76
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 136.1

Curran, already top, sees his average improve the most this week....Suryakumar Yadav sees his drop by 2.85 points almost exactly what it dropped the previous week.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran 3868

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - * Yashasvi Jaiswal = 2060
Batting Bonus - *Passum Nissanka = 440
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler, *Phil Salt & *Nicholas Pooran = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1640
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 750

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 600
Fielding Bonus - Jamie Smith, Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Sam Curran 350
Yashasvi Jaiwal 245
Liam Livingstone 155
Phil Salt 118
Nicholas Pooran 116
Liam Dawson 94
Nat Sciver-Brunt 75
Pathum Nissanka 39
Suryakumar Yadav 22
Babar Azam 21

Adam Zampa dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Kane Williamson dnp
Travis Head dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Jamie Smith dnp
Annabel Sutherland dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4785
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4294
3 Liam Dawson 4061
4 Ravindra Jadeja 3966
5 Jos Buttler 3912
6 Phil Salt 3679
7 Nicholas Pooran 3627
8 Annabel Sutherland 3460
9 Yashasvi Jaiwal 3218
10 Pathum Nissanka 3109
11 Harry Brook 2896
12 Saim Ayub 2788
13 Kane Williamson 2750
14 Jamie Smith 2478
15 Liam Livingstone 2475
16 Wanindu Hasaranga 2463
17 Chamari Athapaththu 2463
18 Babar Azam 2439
19 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
20 Travis Head 2306
21 Suryakumar Yadav 2258
22 Jasprit Bumrah 2008
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558

Pathum Nissanka - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5 Update

1. Pathum Nissanka - 233 - What an end to 2025 Nissanka is having. This week he claimed his third Cricketer of the Week award after having climbed into the Top 10 for the first time last week. He is now the highest run scorer in out List as well as having the most BB points.

2. Kane Williamson - 164 - Can't think of a time in the 8 year history of our storied game where someone has had two Test Matches in a week. With that in mind Williamson's total seems a little underwhelming but second is second.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 156 - A Daddy score of 116 against South Africa was Jaiswal's sole contribution....but was in action for Mumbai as I calculated.

4. Sam Curran - 132 - Has switched into his T20 franchise tournament mode with some decent performances in the ILT20 most notably his score of 44 against the Gulf.

5. Phil Salt - 92 - Bit of a gulf between 5th and 4th this week but Salt got three OK-ish scores in the ILT20 to bag 5th.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4435 - Sensed his poor week last week and has now swollen his lead back up to 216.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4219 - A victim of her own success. Instrumental in taking Hobart to the WBBL final and therefore inactive this week while the other teams scrap to see who she will face off against.

3. Liam Dawson - 3967 - An insignificant score of 80 proved to be quite significant for Dawson as he jumps two places up to 3rd. 50 of those 80 points were in the field.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 3966 - A solitary wicket in the final ODI against South Africa was not enough to see Jadeja keep third place. Down one to fourth.

5. Jos Buttler - 3912 - Now inactive for 5 weeks and out of the top 4 for the first time in 31 weeks. Has he got enough to hold off Salt in 6th. 351 points separate them.

Other Movers

A very weird one this week as the utterly useless Jamie Smith and his 45 points sees him overtake the inactive trio of Klaasen, Athapaththu and Kasaranga to move up three places to 14th. Pooran moves back up to seventh after a week away.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 143.06 (Down from 143.43)
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 136.76 (Down from 140.3)
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 136.1

Sutherland loses out the most (down 3.59 to 134.81) to cede here Top 3 place to the inactive Sciver-Brunt. Nissanka moves up by 4.57 to 127.92.

Top Players By Format

* = New Name

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - *Sam Curran 3518

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - * Passum Nissanka = 2020
Batting Bonus - *Passum Nissanka = 440
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1640
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 750

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 600
Fielding Bonus - Jamie Smith, Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Pathum Nissanka 233
Kane Williamson 164
Yashasvi Jaiwal 156
Sam Curran 132
Phil Salt 92
Liam Dawson 80
Nicholas Pooran 79
Travis Head 75
Harry Brook 66
Jasprit Bumrah 50
Jamie Smith 45
Annabel Sutherland 45
Ravindra Jadeja 40
Suryakumar Yadav 27
Liam Livingstone 22

Adam Zampa dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Wanindu Hasaranga dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4435
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4219
3 Liam Dawson 3967
4 Ravindra Jadeja 3966
5 Jos Buttler 3912
6 Phil Salt 3561
7 Nicholas Pooran 3511
8 Annabel Sutherland 3460
9 Pathum Nissanka 3070
10 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2973
11 Harry Brook 2896
12 Saim Ayub 2788
13 Kane Williamson 2750
14 Jamie Smith 2478
15 Wanindu Hasaranga 2463
16 Chamari Athapaththu 2463
17 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
18 Liam Livingstone 2320
19 Travis Head 2306
20 Suryakumar Yadav 2236
21 Babar Azam 2148
22 Jasprit Bumrah 2008
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558