Harry Brook - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

N.B. Calculations do not include Friday's T20 between Australia and India as I had to press go a little earlier than normal.

Weekly Top 5

1. Harry Brook - 239 - In a week of relatively modest scores (both for England and for our players) Brook blew the roof of with the only 200+ score of the week.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 174 - A disappointing end to her first foray into international captaincy. She has scored 648 points across the tournament though so she has had a decent personal campaign.

3. Saim Ayub - 97 - Another alright-ish performance for Ayub. He has, at least, broken his slump of ducks with 37 runs against South Africa. He backed this up with two wickets.

4. Annabel Sutherland - 73 - A rather ignominious end to the World Cup for the player who has scored the most points over the 5 weeks of the tournament (783)

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 66 - A surprise turnout for Saurashtra saw Jadeja register a satisfactory little 66 against Madhya Pradesh.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4199 - A meagre return for Curran in his return to the ODI side as he scored just 33 runs in the only completed match. His lead on second place remains on 345 points though.

2. Jos Buttler - 3854 - Scored just 33 points for England this week and just about holds on to his second-place berth that might have been threatened should things have panned out differently in the Women's World Cup.

3. Nat Sciver - Brunt - 3794 - The gap between NSB and third place that it took the whole of the World Cup for her to just nip into that position on her final week of action. Now has week off before WBBL action for Hobart.

4. Liam Dawson - 3762 - Inactive this week and down a place to 4th - his lowest position for 18 weeks.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 3325 - Holds fifth spot with absolutely no pressure below him for at least a fortnight where Sutherland could mount a late WBBL resistance.

Other Movers

Both Adam Zampa and Jamie Smith scored very meagrely this week but managed to move up a spot; Zampa to 22nd and Smith to 14th.

Top 3 Averages

1.Chamari Athapaththu - 151,53
2. Sam Curran - 149.48 (Down from 154.3)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 145.48 (Down from 149.1)

Different fates awaited two of our young Englishmen this week. Brook improved the most (up 5.57 points to 116.57) whilst Smith moved down the most; leaking 5.18 points to 111.35.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2044
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3349

Top Players by Discipline

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

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1560
Wicket Bonus - *Annabel Sutherland = 190
Economy - Liam Dawson = 710

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

Weekly List in Full

Harry Brook 239
Nat Sciver-Brunt 174
Saim Ayub 97
Annabel Sutherland 73
Ravindra Jadeja 66
Travis Head 49
Kane Williamson 41
Sam Curran 33
Jos Buttler 33
Adam Zampa 22
Jamie Smith 13
Babar Azam 0

Rishabh Pant dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Liam Livingstone dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Yashasvi Jaiwal dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Liam Dawson dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4199
2 Jos Buttler 3854
3 Nat Sciver-Brunt 3794
4 Liam Dawson 3762
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3325
6 Nicholas Pooran 3096
7 Annabel Sutherland 3055
8 Phil Salt 2943
9 Harry Brook 2681
10 Kane Williamson 2566
11 Pathum Nissanka 2435
12 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2301
13 Chamari Athapaththu 2273
14 Jamie Smith 2227
15 Heinrich Klaasen 2214
16 Saim Ayub 2118
17 Wanindu Hasaranga 1973
18 Travis Head 1932
19 Liam Livingstone 1829
20 Suryakumar Yadav 1739
21 Jasprit Bumrah 1581
22 Adam Zampa 1478
23 Babar Azam 1469
24 Rishabh Pant 1377

Shreyas Iyer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

Even in a cricketer's wildest dreams, weeks like Shreyas Iyer's past seven days come rarely. The young Indian has managed to catapult himself up the overall table with the highest score of 2019, propel himself to his inaugural Cricketer of the Week accolade and launch himself into contention for a World Cup spot. We have seen similar bursts of form like this before. Last year, at about this time, Sunil Narine used the Regional Super50 tournament to play two or three one day games a week and cement his place in the top ten. Iyer is doing a similar thing with the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This week he has scored a phenomenal 296 runs for Mumbai across three games in this tournament, including two centuries. This success has seen him kick start his 2019. At the start of the week, Iyer was just outside the bottom 5 for points overall - he now finds himself just outside the top 5, 30 points off Duanne Olivier. What is even more spectacular about Iyer's performances this week are his strike rates - against Sikkim he reached 147 off 55 balls and in the game versus Madhya Pradesh he got 103 off 55. With this destructive One Day form I can't help but imagine that Iyer will be able to force his way into the squad for England - and what a danger he will be!

I can't help but notice that this year's overall list sees all-rounders take the lead at the end of Week 8. Despite the fact that Shakib Al Hasan has been injured for two weeks he still reigns supreme in the top spot of our overall league. This week Ben Stokes moves into second spot and becomes the second person to pass 1000 points for the year. This week has seen Stokes performing at his Botham-like best. With a cumulative run total of 122 runs and five wickets across three 50 over games, we have seen Stokes at his emphatic best in the West Indies this week - a continuation of the fine form that he displayed towards the end of the Test series. Stokes has managed to find himself in a rhythm of particularly strong form with both bat and ball since his high profile sabbatical from the team last year. His metronomic deliveries are quite a sight to behold - unless you are on the receiving end of them. With a further three ODIs on the horizon, I can't think of any reason why Stokes will not be able to overtake Shakib as the best cricketer in the world by this time next week. 

He has been a surprise high flyer in 2019 - and still is in the top 5 Cricketers in 2019 - but I can't help but think a picture of Glenn Maxwell needs to be placed next to the adjective 'anti-climactic' in the dictionary. He appeared to be building up to something big - 61 runs against Perth contributed to his 136 points in Week 6, then 82 against the Sydney Sixers saw him register 255 last week. The stage was set for Maxwell to register his first century of the competition in the final. Instead, he got out for 1. In many ways 1is more anti-climactic than a duck - and certainly much funnier. That single run would have given the Melbourne Stars' fans something to cheer about - and then came Chris Tremain and Mackenzie Harvey to ruin everyone's fun. Maxwell won't have to wait too long to put things right as he will feature for the Australia team in their first T20 against India this afternoon. The jury is still out on how long he can remain in the top 5 Cricketers in the world - this week he slipped from second to fourth - but he will certainly be hoping to register more than the solitary point at least.

Week

Shreyas Iyer - 446
Joe Root - 362
Ben Stokes - 332
Duanne Olivier - 302
Shai Hope - 167
Jonny Bairstow- 150 
Rashid Khan - 150
Wayne Parnell - 81
Jeetan Patel - 80
Jos Buttler - 78
Shubman Gill - 23
Glenn Maxwell - 1

Mohammad Abbas - dnp 
Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Joe Burns - dnp 
Callum Ferguson - dnp 
Simon Harmer - dnp 
Virat Kohli- dnp 
Jack Leach - dnp 
Rohit Sharma- dnp 
Kane Williamson - dnp
Kuldeep Yadav - dnp 

Morne Morkel- ytp 
Abdur Razzak - ytp 

Overall 

Shakib Al Hasan - 1171
Ben Stokes - 1104
Joe Root- 977
Glenn Maxwell - 831
Duanne Olivier - 793
Shreyas Iyer - 769
Kane Williamson - 711
Rohit Sharma - 697
Rashid Khan - 582
Kuldeep Yadav - 568
Callum Ferguson - 512
Simon Harmer - 500
Jonny Bairstow - 492
Jos Buttler - 487
Virat Kohli- 444
Joe Burns - 366
Shai Hope - 354
Jeetan Patel - 297
Mohammad Abbas - 260
Shubman Gill - 168
Wayne Parnell - 133
Jack Leach - 65

Morne Morkel - ytp 
Abdur Razzak- ytp