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

Jos Buttler - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Ridiculous amount of movement in the List this week courtesy of our second 2000+ point score week in succession.

Weekly Top 5

1. Jos Buttler - 303 - Has brought his decent IPL form to the T20 Blast courtesy of two half centuries in three innings this week. This is his 15th overall Cricketer of the Week which brings him into outright third. Only Azam (19) and Harmer (45) have more.

2. Ravindra Jadeja - 253 - Is continuing his stellar form with the bat in the Third Test. With 676 points, no Indian test player has outperformed him in this series.

3. Jasprit Bumrah - 245 - Lost both matches he has played in this series but has contributed 435 points to his total. Moved up a place to 21 in the Overall List this week.

4. Jamie Smith - 159 - A score in the mid hundreds looks paltry compared to his bumper score of the week before but still puts him as the highest England player on the List this week and moves him up to 13th overall - he was 20th at the start of the series.

5. Kane Williamson - 144 - is basically here due to a half century against Gloucestershire which he then padded with two other below par games in the T20 Blast. Moves up 2 places to 10th on the Overall List.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 2736 - Reclaims the top spot he lost 20 weeks ago. Since then we have had 14 weeks of Sciver Brunt and three each of Jadeja and Dawson before the Hampshire man returned the sceptre to the Surrey captain. How long can he hold it?

2. Liam Dawson - 2714 - Just 70 points this week and he drops down to second. That being said, a return to the Test fold awaits and we have seen some huge scores registered there so he could be back up again soon.

3. Jos Buttler - 2541 - Such was the gap between the Top 2 and the rest that Buttler's 303 this week still leave shim 173 adrift of second place. He has put a gap of 126 between him and 4th though.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 2415 - Our star Indian performer moves up a spot courtesy of another 200+ score with the bat.

5. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 2321 - Scored 41 on her return from injury but her points are really dipping since her decision to stop bowling on taking on the England captaincy.

Other Movers

For the second week in a row, Pathum Nissanka scores modestly(118) but still moves up a place (15th)

Ones to Watch

Kane Williamson and YashasviJaiswal are both performing quote inconsistently at the moment. 2 points separate them on the edge of the Top 10.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 160.94 (Down from 164.56)
2. Chamari Athapaththu -143.6
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt – 142.69

Jasprit Bumrah moves up by a huge 14.71 points to 97.91 whilst Nat Sciver-Brunt's decrease by 6.16 is the largest drop....still in the Top 3 though.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball - Liam Dawson - 1546
One Day - Kane Williamson - 655
Short Form - Nicholas Pooran - 2287

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1331
Batting Bonus - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 270
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

Jos Buttler 303
Ravindra Jadeja 253
Jasprit Bumrah 245
Jamie Smith 159
Kane Williamson 144
Nicholas Pooran 143
Phil Salt 142
Rishabh Pant 123
Pathum Nissanka 118
Harry Brook 104
Sam Curran 103
Adam Zampa 80
Liam Dawson 70
Nat Sciver-Brunt 41
Travis Head 36
Yashasvi Jaiswal 23

Annabel Sutherland dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Wanindu Hasaranga dnp
Liam Livingstone dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp





Overall Scores In Full

Player Points
1 Sam Curran 2736
2 Liam Dawson 2714
3 Jos Buttler 2541
4 Ravindra Jadeja 2415
5 Nat Sciver-Brunt 2321
6 Nicholas Pooran 2287
7 Heinrich Klaasen 1942
8 Phil Salt 1904
9 Wanindu Hasaranga 1696
10 Kane Williamson 1681
11 Yashasvi Jaiwal 1679
12 Suryakumar Yadav 1607
13 Jamie Smith 1486
14 Chamari Athapaththu 1436
15 Pathum Nissanka 1433
16 Travis Head 1407
17 Harry Brook 1399
18 Rishabh Pant 1303
19 Babar Azam 1232
20 Annabel Sutherland 1197
21 Jasprit Bumrah 1077
22 Liam Livingstone 984
23 Adam Zampa 778
24 Saim Ayub 553

Kane Williamson - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Kane Williamson - 176 - Cricketers of the Week awards are fairly few and far between for Williamson. Believe it or not this is only the third time he has finished with a Weekly high score in his five years.

2. Sam Curran - 146 - Finishes in the Top 3 for the fourth successive week. Really enjoying his cricket at the moment - a stark contrast from his IPL foray.

3. Heinrich Klaasen - 124 - Has begun the new chapter of his cricketing life with a fairly disappointing 124 points spreads across three games in the MLC.

4. Wanindu Hasaranga - 75 - Big drop off between the Top 3 and the chasing but Wanindu Hasaranga will take anything after a very poor year so far. 25 runs and 20 wickets in two T20s doesn't often get you in the Top 5 but here we are.

5. Liam Livingstone - 71 - Back from winning the IPL with RCB, Livingstone had one decent outing for Lancashire this week courtesy of a quickfire 41 against Worcestershire.

Overall Top 5

1. Nat Sciver Brunt - 2134 - After her first foray into international captaincy for England, NSB returned to The Blaze with a decent 31 against Lancashire. Extends her lead by 53.

2. Jos Buttler - 2081 - Inactive this week but holds on to second place with by 21 points.

3. Sam Curran - 2060 - His fourth successive 3 figure score keeps him in third place, bit of a gap opening up between him and third too. Should be looking up rather than down.

4. Liam Dawson - 1944 - After his mixed return to the England set-up, Dawson had a rather underwhelming return to the T20 Blast with a solitary wicket and 13 runs. The gap between him and 5th, however, is the second largest of any two positions on the List.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 1788 - Despite another inactive week he manages to just about hold onto fifth spot. If Klaasen had carried his IPL form into the MLC, he might have been in a spot of bother.

Ones to Watch

Two members of the England fraternity could have a bit of a tussle this week. Lancashire's Livingstone is 18th, 8 points ahead of England's Jamie Smith.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 158.46 (Down from 159.5)
2. Chamari Athapaththu -143.6
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt – 142.27 (Down from 148.79)

NSB moves down the most and just about holds on to her Top Three berth. The biggest improvement came from Kane Williamson, who moves up 8.81 to 106.31.

Top Players By Format

* = New Name

Red Ball - Liam Dawson - 1030
One Day - Kane Williamson - 655
Short Form - *Sam Curran = 1733

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1101
Batting Bonus - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 200
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler - 550

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 780
Wicket Bonus - Liam Dawson - 110
Economy - Liam Dawson = 410

Fielding - *Jos Buttler - 270
Fielding Bonus -Phil Salt – 30

Weekly List In Full

Kane Williamson 176
Sam Curran 146
Heinrich Klaasen 124
Wanindu Hasaranga 75
Liam Livingstone 71
Nicholas Pooran 58
Liam Dawson 53
Nat Sciver-Brunt 51
Travis Head 40

Annabel Sutherland dnp
Adam Zampa dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Jamie Smith dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Yashasvi Jaiwal dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Nat Sciver-Brunt 2134
2 Jos Buttler 2081
3 Sam Curran 2060
4 Liam Dawson 1944
5 Ravindra Jadeja 1788
6 Heinrich Klaasen 1764
7 Nicholas Pooran 1695
8 Suryakumar Yadav 1607
9 Phil Salt 1497
10 Chamari Athapaththu 1436
11 Kane Williamson 1382
12 Wanindu Hasaranga 1353
13 Yashasvi Jaiwal 1336
14 Babar Azam 1232
15 Annabel Sutherland 1197
16 Travis Head 1113
17 Harry Brook 925
18 Liam Livingstone 797
19 Jamie Smith 789
20 Pathum Nissanka 724
21 Rishabh Pant 678
22 Jasprit Bumrah 622
23 Adam Zampa 578
24 Saim Ayub 553