Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Only Williamson, Zampa, Curran and Buttler not in action this week as we see our second highest week of point scoring of 2025.

Weekly Top 5

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 280 - For the second week in a row an Indian player graces the top of the List despite their humbling defeat to South Africa. More points with the ball than the bat this week for Jadeja.

2. Phil Salt - 252 - Might denigrate Phil Salt's achievements in the Abu Dhabi T20 but across his 5 games this week he has scored above 30 in three of them and scored at a Strike Rate above 200 runs a ball. That's not nothing.

3. Travis Head- 204 -His match winning knock against a very poor England team feels like it was worth at least double his 204 points this week.....but rules are rules and here he sits. He didn't even move off 18th place overall.

4. Babar Azam - 180 - Three innings for Pakistan this week; two bad ones (16 & 0) and one very good one (74). 4th places seems about right for that. Moves up a place to 20th as a reward too.

5. Pathum Nissanka - 173 - Was a whisker away from his second T20I century but was not to be. Backed it up with two underwhelming performances with the bat in 2 matches against Pakistan to squeak into 5th.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4266 - Inactive for a third week. His cushion in first place snow 259 points.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4007 - Has been chipping away at the top 3 since the start of the World Cup and finally overhauls 2nd place despite an unassuming 119 this week,

3. Jos Buttler - 3912 - Inactive and MIGHT just be inactive for the rest of the year. Might he finish the year outside the Top 5.

4. Liam Dawson - 3847 - 50 points this week saw him only just hold on to 4th spot. It has been 26 weeks since Dawson was outside the Top 4.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 3810 - The highest score of the week only moved Jadeja away from 6th place by a dramatic margin. The 489 points between him and Sutherland is the largest gap on the List.

Ones To Watch

There are two pairs pf Cricketers all within one point of each other who will be playing this week. Firstly Delhi's Phil Salt will look to reel in Melbourne's Annabel Sutherland in 6th. Meanwhile Titans' Heinrich Klaasen will want to hold off England's Jamie Smith to hold 15th.

Other Movers

Klaasen moves up two places into 15th whilst Hasaranga edges into 14th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 147.1
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 141.11 (Up from 135.77)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 138.38 (Down from 143.13)

Jadeja skips past third place to become the second highest player in terms of average. Athapaththu drops out of thetop three after leaking 7.91 thanks to a shortened WBBL game.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3349

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1914
Batting Bonus -Nat Sciver-Brunt = 410
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1580
Wicket Bonus - *Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - *Ravindra Jadeja = 730

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

Weekly List In Full

Ravindra Jadeja 280
Phil Salt 252
Travis Head 204
Babar Azam 180
Pathum Nissanka 173
Suryakumar Yadav 162
Yashasvi Jaiwal 131
Saim Ayub 130
Heinrich Klaasen 128
Nicholas Pooran 121
Nat Sciver-Brunt 119
Liam Livingstone 107
Jasprit Bumrah 106
Harry Brook 102
Annabel Sutherland 98
Jamie Smith 98
Wanindu Hasaranga 91
Rishabh Pant 60
Liam Dawson 50
Chamari Athapaththu 0

Kane Williamson dnp
Adam Zampa dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Jos Buttler dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4266
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4007
3 Jos Buttler 3912
4 Liam Dawson 3847
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3810
6 Annabel Sutherland 3321
7 Phil Salt 3320
8 Nicholas Pooran 3297
9 Harry Brook 2830
10 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2767
11 Pathum Nissanka 2695
12 Saim Ayub 2692
13 Kane Williamson 2566
14 Wanindu Hasaranga 2438
15 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
16 Jamie Smith 2433
17 Chamari Athapaththu 2418
18 Travis Head 2231
19 Liam Livingstone 2077
20 Babar Azam 2051
21 Suryakumar Yadav 2046
22 Jasprit Bumrah 1958
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558

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

James Vince - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. James Vince - 311 - Doing big things in the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament. Is the ninth highest scorer with 148 runs with an average strike rate of 187.34. Basically whenever he plays you're guaranteed at least 50 points. Is guaranteed at least one more game and might have a further 4.

2. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 201 - Got the feeling that his score of 161 was a defining innings in his burgeoning career. Despite that it is only worth silver medal this week. He does move up a place to 8th this week, over-taking his inactive Indian team mate Ravindra Jadeja.

3. Phil Salt - 196 - Registers his fourth three figure score in a row. Has got 892 points in the last month across his 20 over and 10 over commitments with England and Team Abu Dhabi. Started the year slowly but sure is finishing it strongly.

4. Virat Kohli - 155 - A century sees Kohli back in the Top 5 for the first time since July. Such has been his poor form that this is his highest score since May's Yearly Best 244.

5. Mitchell Marsh - 155 - It is telling how bad a 2024 Marsh has had when this is his third highest score of the year. 53 runs and 3 wickets in the loss to India was just enough to keep Jos Buttler in 6th place. He moves up a place on the Overall list to 19th.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - Registering decent, if not spectacular numbers in the WBBL. Holds top spot for a seventh week. Only Azam's 20 weeks in first place have been longer.

2. James Vince - 4338 - Despite registering the 16th highest score of the year, Vince stays in second place and can only slash the gap on first to 343. More impressively the gap to third place stands at 652.

3. Travis Head - 3686 - Followed up his 6 week absence for cricket with a decent, if not rather underwhelming, 140. Lot of cricket in him yet this year though.

4. Phil Salt - 892 points in a month has seen him go from 13th to 4th. Quite the jump for a guy who took 5 months to break in the Top 10.

5. Sam Curran - Inactive this week and down a place to 5th; his lowest position for 15 weeks. Things could get even worse as he is just 121 points ahead of the next active player Marnus Labuschagne in 7th.

Other Movers

Despite Harry Brook's fairly anodyne 79 against a New Zealand Prime Minister's XI, he still manages to move up 2 places; overtaking the inactive Rachin Ravindra and Simon Harmer,

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18 (Down from 168.44)
2. Jos Buttler -143.26 (Up from 142.83)
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 132.39.

James Vince average improves the most up by an impressive 5.44 to 1205, whilst Marnus' poor start to the BGT sees his average decrease to the tune of 3.53. He currently stands at 123.35 a week.

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 - 2538
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 400
Strike Rate - Phil Salt & *James Vince = 860

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

Fielding – Phil Salt & *James Vince - 540
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly Scores In Full

James Vince 311
Yashasvi Jaiswal 201
Phil Salt 196
Virat Kohli 155
Mitchell Marsh 153
Jos Buttler 151
Travis Head 140
Chamari Athapaththu 133
Harry Brook 79
Steve Smith 47
Marnus Labuschagne 35
Usman Khawaja 32

Simon Harmer dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp

Overall List in Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4338
Travis Head 3686
Phil Salt 3545
Sam Curran 3460
Babar Azam 3303
Marnus Labuschagne 3207
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3182
Ravindra Jadeja 3045
Harry Brook 2859
Rachin Ravindra 2814
Simon Harmer 2808
Moeen Ali 2727
Jos Buttler 2722
Glenn Maxwell 2424
Shubman Gill 2361
Virat Kohli 2254
Daryl Mitchell 1937
Mitchell Marsh 1837
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1550
Usman Khawaja 980