Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5.....but kinda 6

1. Simon Harmer - 198 - A five-fer for Harmer against Glamorgan puts him top of the tree for the third time this year. He now clears the board for wicket scoring points this year.

2. Marco Jansen - 181 - Had more cold patches than hot ones in the IPL this year but is now plying his trade in the MLC where he got 4 wickets across 3 games for Washington.

3. Harry Brook - 172 - The perennial vice-captain put an OK showing in during the Second Test against New Zealand. 72 runs plus some extra points sees him in third place.

4. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 164 - Warmed up for his call-up to the full India squad with the fastest ever 50 in List A history. Seems like that should be worth more than 40 Strike Rate points but oh well.

=5. Nicholas Pooran - 139 - His travails in the IPL have been well publicised but he seems to have perked up now he is batting against 40 year old Americans. Moved up from bottom spot at the expense of Michael Bracewell.

=5. Rachin Ravindra - 139 - Put his poor first Test behind him with 33 and 76 in the second. He has scored more red call points this week than in his last two red ball games combined.

Overall Top 5

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 3075 - Sees his monumental lead on second eaten into by a mere 34 points this week.

2. Simon Harmer- 2224 - Moves up into second place thanks to his weekly winning score. One more game in the County Championship before it's back to the Blast.

3. Shubman Gill - 2106 - A victim of his team's dominance against Afghanistan this week. He was needed to bat and just got 20 fielding points. Down a spot.

4. Jos Buttler - 2006 - Retains fifth place despite his inactivity.

5. Aiden Markram - 1690 - Still clinging on to his Top 5 berth. Sam Curran is now only 29 behind him though.

Highest Weekly Average

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 180,88 (Down from 181.94)
2. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 154.57
3. Simon Harmer = 139 ( Up from 139.17)

Gill loses his Top 3 place after leaking 7.44 from hisi average down to 131.63. Pooran is up 6.75 but still has the worst average of 58.08.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- Mehidy Hasan Miraz = 208.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 105.81
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 88.64

Highest Points by Format

Red Ball- Simon Harmer = 1988
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1693
Short Form - Jos Buttler = 1904

Highest Points by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1725
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 320
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 870

Wickets - *Simon Harmer = 800
Wicket Bonus = Simon Harmer = 170
Economy - Simon Harmer= 520

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 420
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock & Jos Buttler = 20

Weekly List In Full

Simon Harmer 198
Marco Jansen 181
Harry Brook 172
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 164
Nicholas Pooran 139
Rachin Ravindra 139
Sophie Ecclestone 84
Quinton de Kock 77
Sam Curran 71
Shubman Gill 20
Paul Walter 12

Phil Salt dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Michael Bracewell dnp
Aiden Markram dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Travis Head dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Mehidy Hasan Miraz dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp
Liam Dawson dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp

Overall List In Full

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 3075
Simon Harmer 2224
Shubman Gill 2106
Jos Buttler 2006
Aiden Markram 1690
Sam Curran 1661
Saim Ayub 1591
Liam Dawson 1582
Harry Brook 1562
Quinton de Kock 1547
Pathum Nissanka 1515
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 1444
Marco Jansen 1425
Travis Head 1323
Ravindra Jadeja 1190
Rachin Ravindra 1104
Nat Sciver-Brunt 1082
Paul Walter 858
Phil Salt 822
Sophie Ecclestone 798
Nicholas Pooran 755
Michael Bracewell 690

Kane Williamson - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

After the profligate last fortnights worth of updates only 807 points were shared between 7 cricketers this week - only merits a Top Three in my eyes.

Weekly Top 3

1. Kane Williamson - 277 - Featured in his first red Ball match of the year this week and hardly looked like he had been away by scoring 154 points to add to his 123 from a T20 Blast game against Glamorgan. Up to 8th Overall.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 179 - Back to decent scores with the bat after her injury niggles that knocked her out of the back end of the T20 series. Got 119 runs across the two ODIs this week.

3. Sam Curran - 144 - Can't keep Curran down this Summer. After having done so well with the bat thus far, he chips in with a four-fer before the T20 Blast hiatus. He also reclaims the highest Short Form Point scorer from Nicholas Pooran.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 2880 - Curran marks his ninth successive week of triple figure scores with his second week in top spot. He has 166 points on second place.

2. Liam Dawson - 2714 - Inactive this week but in anticipation of Test points next week.

3. Jos Buttler - 2550 - Only 9 points in the final game before the break for the T20 Blast but holds third place for a successive week.

4. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 2500 - Two decent ODIs sees her address her descent down the list and move back up into 4th.

5. Ravinfra Jadeja - 2415 - Inactive this week but is facing zero pressure below him - he has 441 points between himself and the next active player; Phil Salt in 7th.

Other Movers

Salt would be especially diapointed with just 70 points from a T20 game and a First class outing - but he still manages to move up a place into 7th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 160 (Down from 160.94)
2. Chamari Athapaththu -143.6
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt – 142.69

Williamson's big haul sees his average improve by 10.12 points - he nwo has a very decent 115.18 a werk. Buttler's poor week sees his avergae drop to 127.7 - a reduction of 6.24.

Top Players By Format

* = New Name

Red Ball - Liam Dawson - 1546
One Day - * Nat Sciver Brunt = 656
Short Form - * Sam Curran = 2297

Top Players by Discipline

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1340
Batting Bonus - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 290
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 670

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1060
Wicket Bonus - Wanindu Hasaranga = 140
Economy - Liam Dawson = 530

Fielding - Jos Buttler= 320
Fielding Bonus -Phil Salt – 30

Weekly Scores In Full

Kane Williamson 277
Nat Sciver-Brunt 179
Sam Curran 144
Adam Zampa 80
Phil Salt 70
Saim Ayub 48
Jos Buttler 9

Annabel Sutherland dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Liam Livingstone dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Jamie Smith dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Liam Dawson dnp
Travis Head dnp
Yashasvi Jaiwal dnp

Overall list in Full

Sam Curran 2880
Liam Dawson 2714
Jos Buttler 2550
Nat Sciver-Brunt 2500
Ravindra Jadeja 2415
Nicholas Pooran 2287
Phil Salt 1974
Kane Williamson 1958
Heinrich Klaasen 1942
Wanindu Hasaranga 1696
Yashasvi Jaiwal 1679
Suryakumar Yadav 1607
Jamie Smith 1486
Chamari Athapaththu 1436
Pathum Nissanka 1433
Travis Head 1407
Harry Brook 1399
Rishabh Pant 1303
Babar Azam 1232
Annabel Sutherland 1197
Jasprit Bumrah 1077
Liam Livingstone 984
Adam Zampa 858
Saim Ayub 601

Travis Head - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

A huge point scoring week this week with the top 6 all scoring more than 200.

Weekly Top 5

1. Travis Head - 346 - His highest score of the year comes courtesy of the bowlers of Major League Cricket. This is, surprisingly , his first Cricketer of the Week accolade; becoming the 16th recipient across the year.

2. Chamari Athapaththu - 330 - Straight back into action and straight back into breaking records. This time courtesy of 119 against Malaysia in the Women's Asia Cup.

3. Glenn Maxwell - 268 - Unlike his other Washington Freedom players, The Big Show only played two Major League Cricket games this week but made massive impacts in both; a three wicket haul against Texas Super Kings and a half century off 23 balls versus the San Francisco Unicorns.

4. Harry Brook - 245 - Continued his imperious start to Test cricket with a century in the second innings of the second Test against the West Indies. Moves up a place on the overall list to 18th.

5. Rachin Ravindra - 240 - Is in the top 5, almost exclusively, for his bowling this week with 2 four-fers in Major League Cricket across his three games this week. He got 20 runs across those three games.

Overall Top 5

1. James Vince - 2959 - Kickstarted his Hundred seasons positively with a half century but is definitely looking over his shoulder.

2. Chamari Athapaththu - 2904 - Her Women's Asia Cup heroics sees her back up to second place - and with a not inconsiderable gap between her and third.

3. Babar Azam - 2647 - Azam's Top 5 aspirations were dealt a bitter blow this week with the PCB blocking his request to turn out in the Global T20 Canada tournament. 384 points separate him from 6th.

4. Travis Head - 2567 - His highest score of the year sees him up a place to fourth this week. He only needs 80 points in the Major League Cricket final would see him move up to third.

5. Marnus Labuschagne - 2384 - Despite his best bowling figures in his final T20 Blast game for Glamorgan, Marnus still moves down a spot. A spell away from cricket awaits him now.

Other Movers

Despite mediocre scores of 164 and 54 respectively, Moeen Ali and Sam Curran both moved up a place this week. Curran moves into 11th with Moeen occupying 15th.

Ones to Watch

It's a straight shoot out between Sam Curran for the Oval Invincibles and Glenn Maxwell for Washington Freedom. They both have one game and have just three points between them.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 193.6 (Up from 183.86)
2. Babar Azam - 155.71
3. Marnus Labuschagne - 132.44 (Up from 131.41)

Steve Smith's average improves the most - up 13.67 - drawing him away from the foot of the table. Meanwhile Usman Khawaja, who was already bottom, is even worse off; down 10.77 to 56.83.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 1409
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 706
Short Form = Babar Azam - 2598

Highest scorer by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - James Vince - 1769
Batting Bonus - *Travis Head = 300
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 610

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 840
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 140
Economy - Simon Harmer - 510

Fielding – James Vince = 380
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 30

Weekly List in Full

Travis Head 346
Chamari Athapaththu 330
Glenn Maxwell 268
Harry Brook 245
Rachin Ravindra 240
Steve Smith 224
Moeen Ali 164
Aaron Hardie 149
Marnus Labuschagne 130
James Vince 126
Sam Curran 54
Phil Salt 19
Simon Harmer 15
Usman Khawaja 3

Daryl Mitchell dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Yashasvi Jaiswal dnp
Shubman Gill dnp

Overall List In Full

1 James Vince 2959
2 Chamari Athapaththu 2904
3 Babar Azam 2647
4 Travis Head 2567
5 Marnus Labuschagne 2384
6 Yashasvi Jaiswal 2183
7 Jos Buttler 2104
8 Rachin Ravindra 2067
9 Simon Harmer 1979
10 Phil Salt 1932
11 Sam Curran 1868
12 Glenn Maxwell 1865
13 Ravindra Jadeja 1826
14 Virat Kohli 1739
15 Moeen Ali 1708
16 Shubman Gill 1667
17 Daryl Mitchell 1382
18 Harry Brook 1286
19 Mitchell Marsh 1138
20 Aaron Hardie 1028
21 Steve Smith 960
22 Usman Khawaja 341