The Cricket List 2021 Final Standings.

 1.  Marnus Labuschagne

Score: 5311

Cricketer of the Weeks – 8
Average score per active week –177.33 (2^nd)
Highest Score – 641 – Not only the highest score this year but the highest ever score in our Lists thanks to 226* in a Glamorgan 2^nd XI match.
Stat Whack – Marnus Labuschagne has spent exactly 50% of the year in first place and has NEVER been outside the top 3. A well justified winner for the year.

2. Simon Harmer

 

Score: 5201

Cricketer of the Weeks – 8  
Average score per active week – 185.75 (1^st)
Highest Score – 374 – Scored in the last round of County Championship fixtures prior to the start of the T20 Blast. Surprisingly was not the highest score of that week.
Stat Whack – Was the King of the Wicket takers. He got a quarter of the wickets taken by anyone on our List. Also scored slightly under a quarter of the economy points.

3. Babar Azam

 

Score: 4385

Cricketer of the Weeks – 2
Average score per active week – 137.03 (5^th)
Highest Score – 392 – His score of 158 in the final ODI against England was his highest score of the week but was not enough to see him win cricketer of the week.
Stat Whack – Was the highest T20 point scorer with 73.3% of his points coming from the shortest form.  

4. Joe Root

 

Score: 4117

Cricketer of the Weeks –5

Average score per active week – 158.35 (3^rd)
Highest Score – 369 – A great year for the England player if not a great year for the England captain. Things never got better than his first Cricketer of the Week award in January with 238 vs Sri Lanka.
Stat Whack – At 88.49% he has the highest percentage of runs bagged from Long Form cricket.

 

 

5. Moeen Ali

Score: 3953

Cricketer of the Weeks – 4
Average score per active week – 136.31 (6^th)
Highest Score –336 – Moeen absolutely raked the points in during the Abu Dhabi T10 league. It was this that pushed him into the Top 5.
Stat Whack – With 890, Moeen had the highest number of points of anyone for his Strike Rate. It made up just under a quarter of his total points.

 

6. Quinton De Kock

 

Score: 3312

Cricketer of the Weeks – 2

Average score per active week – 122.67 (8^th)
Highest Score – 475 – The third highest score we have ever recorded came from 5 (five) games in one week against Ireland.
Stat Whack – Has been the most effective wicket-keeper in our list this year with 25.36% of his points coming from the gloves.

 

7. Ravichandran Ashwin

Score: 3149

Cricketer of the Weeks – 5

Average score per active week – 149.95 (4^th)
Highest Score – 429 – The 10^th highest List score on record was the first of three back-to-back Cricketer of the Week awards during the India v England series.
Stat Whack – Always the bridesmaid. Was the player with the second highest percentage of Test points and the player with the second most bowling points.

 

 

8. Nicholas Pooran

 

 

Score: 2867

Cricketer of the Weeks – 1
Average score per active week –95.57 (13^th)
Highest Score – 442 – Pooran registered the 9^th highest score of all time in February. He was a beneficiary of the Abu Dhabi T10 League’s very quick turnover of games.
Stat Whack – Pooran scored 81% of his points in the shortest form. This is bettered only by Glenn Maxwell who only played T20 in 2021.  

9. Peter Siddle

 

Score: 2455

Cricketer of the Weeks – 3

Average score per active week – 131 (7^th)
Highest Score – 428 – At the time this score, courtesy of two 200+ games for Essex, was the eight highest score of all time. Such has been the profligate scoring of 2021 that it is now a mere 11^th.
Stat Whack – His average is the highest for any player to have featured in 20 or fewer weeks.

 

10. Dawid Malan

Score: 2537

Cricketer of the Weeks –0

Average score per active week – 84.57 (17^th)
Highest Score – An unbeaten century in a rare outing for Yorkshire saw him get his highest score for the year…finished fourth that week. Tells you all you need to know about Malan’s year.
Stat Whack – Malan has the second lowest average points per active week at 84.57 despite (or perhaps because) also having the joint highest active weeks at 30.

 

The Rest

Glenn Maxwell	2455
Jasprit Bumrah	2394
Peter Handscomb	2325
Virat Kohli	2238
Ben Stokes	2046
Kane Williamson	1763
Steve Smith	1706
David Warner	1684

 

 

Marnus Labuschagne - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

An incredibly busy week in which 9 players shared a humungous 1771 points between them. Let's tuck in and see who got what.

Weekly Top 5

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 641 - Marnus has come back from Covid quarantine and beaten a record that has stood for over 2 years. Til this point Wayne Parnell's 485 was the highest weekly total. He has blown that out the water largely thanks to a second XI outing where he got 226*

2. Babar Azam - 392 - Scored 19 points from his first two ODIS....then followed it up with 228 in the final ODI and 145. 392 would have seen you finish in the top spot for the week in all but 15 weeks since the start of 2019.

3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 230 - Seven wickets in a cheeky cameo for Surrey this week sees Ashwin finish in the Top 5 yet again. Plays rarely but when he does he scores big.

4. Quinton De Kock - 190 - Rested for the first two ODIs against Ireland (including the one they lost) but returned in Friday's mauling. In top top form at the moment.

5. Simon Harmer - 113 - Isn't blowing anyone away with his performances but is quietly grafting away with decent three figure point hauls week after week.

Other Movers

Two players moved up a place despite not finishing in the Top 5. Ben Stokes scored 85 but sees him overleap his team mate Moeen Ali into 7th, whilst Nicholas Pooran got 108 and overtakes Dawid Malan into 12th.

Overall Top 5

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 3655 - A record breaking week from the Aussie sees him put 962 points between himself and second place. Is it too early to call it for the year?

2. Simon Harmer - 2692 - Has been knocking at the door of second spot for a while now and finally edges it this week. It is his highest position of the year thus far.

3. Joe Root - 2619 - For 15 weeks Root was challenging top spot but a period of Covid isolation sees him drop down to third instead.

4. Babar Azam - 2482 - Such was the gap between Azam and third place that even his huge haul of points this week does not see him move up a place.

5. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1894 - Ashwin loves 5th place. Over the last 2 months he has held it for four weeks - but never for longer than a fortnight at a time. He is just three points ahead of De Kock who will feel very hard done by to be knocked down a peg after a good week.

Highest Players by Format
*=New Name

Long Form - Joe Root - 2266
50 Over - *Babar Azam = 585
T20 - Babar Azam - 1723

Top 3 Averages

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 192.37 (Up from 167.44)
2. Simon Harmer - 192.29 (Down from 198.38)
2. Ravichandran Ashwin - 189.4 (Up from 184.89)


The top three entirely reshuffles itself as third placed Labuschagne improved his average by 24.93 to move up to top spot whilst Harmer's moved down a place courtesy of the largest drop of the week - 6.09. Ashwin rounds off proceedings in third - one place lower than last week despite improving his average.

Highest Points by Discipline


Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1945
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 350
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 420

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 1220
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 230
Economy - Simon Harmer - 560

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 420
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 70

Longest Inactive

David Warner (11 weeks)