Jos Buttler - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Jos Buttler - 227 - Excelled in two short England games this week; one short because of ineptitude and one because of the weather, however he showed impactful batting in both. This is his 6th Cricketer of the Week; two more than anyone else on the List.

2. Chamari Athapaththu - 203 - Has been challenging last year's maxim that she plays huge when she does play but doesn't play very much. This is only her 11th wicket of cricket but gets 203 courtesy of an incredible bowling performance against Trinbago

3. Liam Livingstone - 195 - Returned to the Lancashire side for a rare outing to rocket propel them into T20 Finals day with a match winning 85 against Kent.

4. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 138 - A return to cricket after the England Test series with a losing appearance for West Zone in the Duleep Trophy. Scored just 4 in the first innings but followed it up with a half century in the second dig.

5. Jamie Smith - 102 - Is going to be rested for the rest of the White Ball Summer but made the most of his final foray with a 62 against South Africa in the final ODI.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4051 - A literal damp squib for Curran's return to the England set up as he garners only 30 points from the shambolic first T20i against South Africa. More to come.

2. Jos Buttler - His top scoring week moves him back up a place to second.

3. Liam Dawson - 3503 - Bit parts in two games this week but only 21 points and down a place to third. There is, however, a huge gap between him and fourth place - 537 points is the largest gap of any point in the List.

4. Nat Sciver-Brunt - Inactive again this week and lucky that so many just below her were wither inactive too or having stinkers.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 2804 - Inactive again and Pooran's score of just 13 in the CPL means that his lead on sixth place is still 47 points.

Ones To Watch

Saim Ayub only got 47 points this week but the long time bottom spot player is on the up and up. he is 7 points from 19th and only 400 separate him from 15th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 162.04 (Down from 167.54)
2. Chamari Athapaththu - 149 ( Up from 143.6)
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt – 141.24

Athapaththu moves up the most this week whilst Jasprit Bumrah's swing from red ball to white ball cricket sees him drop by 5.84 points to 15th.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball - Liam Dawson - 1652
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 656
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3194

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1786
Batting Bonus - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 330
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 880

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1400
Wicket Bonus - Liam Dawson = 170
Economy - Liam Dawson = 650

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 530
Fielding Bonus - *Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List in Full

Jos Buttler 227
Chamari Athapaththu 203
Liam Livingstone 195
Yashasvi Jaiwal 138
Jamie Smith 102
Saim Ayub 47
Sam Curran 30
Harry Brook 23
Liam Dawson 21
Jasprit Bumrah 20
Suryakumar Yadav 17
Phil Salt 13
Nicholas Pooran 13

Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Travis Head dnp
Kane Williamson dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Annabel Sutherland dnp
Adam Zampa dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4051
2 Jos Buttler 3556
3 Liam Dawson 3503
4 Nat Sciver-Brunt 2966
5 Ravindra Jadeja 2804
6 Nicholas Pooran 2757
7 Kane Williamson 2525
8 Phil Salt 2389
9 Harry Brook 2223
10 Heinrich Klaasen 2214
11 Jamie Smith 2112
12 Annabel Sutherland 2053
13 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2042
14 Pathum Nissanka 1994
15 Liam Livingstone 1770
16 Travis Head 1758
17 Wanindu Hasaranga 1696
18 Chamari Athapaththu 1639
19 Suryakumar Yadav 1624
20 Rishabh Pant 1377
21 Saim Ayub 1370
22 Babar Azam 1308
23 Adam Zampa 1272
24 Jasprit Bumrah 1171

Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week....Again

 

A lot of shifts and changes all over the shop this week. Let's get into it.

Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer - 341 - 2 Cricketers of the Week back to back for Harmer. Interestingly his score this week is his highest of 2024 but not even in his top ten highest scores of all time.

2. James Vince - 159 - Not quite back to his best but certainly back to his most-alright. 88 runs and another 3 catches in the second innings to make him the undisputed king of fielding points. 440 this year puts him 80 more than Phil Salt and 130 above the nearest non-wktkpr

3. Travis Head - 151 - That scorching 59 against England feels like it needs more than the mere 40 Strike Rate points it got but here we are with Head in third place for the week.

4. Babar Azam - 116 - Not really beating the allegations that he can only turn it on when the pressure is off, Azam got his best score in 15 weeks in some friendly knockabout with his mates in the Champions One Day Cup

5. Moeen Ali - 67 - Rather sneaks in to the Top 5 this week. 27 runs at an OK Strike Rate and a wicket against Gloucestershire in the T20 Blast sees him skid onto the Top Table on the week he announced his international retirement.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 3753 - Completes a hat trick of weeks at Number One on our list despite another inactive week. Her lead is now very narrow.

2. James Vince - 3702 - Finished second for the week and burst towards top spot. A huge 715 separate him and third spot.

3. Sam Curran - 2987 - Still in third place despite a slightly ignominious showing in the first T20 against Australia. Plenty more white ball cricket in him yet.

4. Travis Head - 2877 - A second week in fourth for Travis Head who is looking in the very finest of touch.

5. Babar Azam - 2827 - Holds fifth place but will be looking over his shoulder at Simon Harmer who is bursting up the rankings. Only 189 points between him and the born again spinner.

Ones To Watch

Shubman Gill may wish to use the Duleep Trophy to reignite his ailing year. He is currently in 14th but could jump as much as four places with as few as 225 points.

Other Movers

Quite a few incidental scores have seen players move up Overall. Brook, Salt and Hardie all move up a place to 15th, 7th and 20th respectively despite barely scrapping over 50.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 187.65
2. Babar Azam - 141.35 (Down from 142.68)
3. Marnus Labuschagne - 132.44

Harry Brook's poor week sees him down by 4.21 to 103.61 whilst Harmer takes a huge boost of 10.43 up to 114.7 a week.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 2065
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Sam Curran - 2899

Highest scorer by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - James Vince - 2222
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 340
Strike Rate - James Vince = 690

Wickets - * Simon Harmer = 1120
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 220
Economy - Simon Harmer - 650

Fielding – James Vince = 440
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 40

Weekly Scores In Full

Simon Harmer 341
James Vince 159
Travis Head 151
Babar Azam 116
Moeen Ali 67
Shubman Gill 66
Mitchell Marsh 63
Aaron Hardie 61
Phil Salt 60
Yashasvi Jaiswal 49
Sam Curran 48
Harry Brook 32

Daryl Mitchell dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Steve Smith dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Chamari Athapaththu 3753
2 James Vince 3702
3 Sam Curran 2987
4 Travis Head 2877
5 Babar Azam 2827
6 Simon Harmer 2638
7 Phil Salt 2410
8 Yashasvi Jaiswal 2402
9 Marnus Labuschagne 2384
10 Rachin Ravindra 2178
11 Jos Buttler 2104
12 Moeen Ali 2034
13 Glenn Maxwell 1955
14 Shubman Gill 1953
15 Harry Brook 1865
16 Virat Kohli 1837
17 Ravindra Jadeja 1826
18 Daryl Mitchell 1382
19 Mitchell Marsh 1310
20 Aaron Hardie 1158
21 Steve Smith 1098
22 Usman Khawaja 421

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