Moeen Ali - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Only a top three today due to the scarcity of cricket.

Weekly Top 3

1. Moeen Ali - 187 - 187 points from 5 T10 games this week seems slim but it is hard to judge really. Moeen joins an exclusive club of 10 players who have won Cricketer of the Week in three successive years (Harmer, Azam, Rashid, Stokes, Maxwell, Root, Marnus, Kohli, Warner.)

2. Sam Curran - 168 - Feast to famine for Sam Curran in the ODI series against the West Indies. Had a torrid old time in the first game but scored nearly double those points in the second game. More cricket to play for him on this tour.

3. Harry Brook - 164 - Needs a decent spell after a pretty bleak 2023. Don't think many would have predicted him to be in 14th place at this stage of the year; but has started this series well.

Overall Top 5

Rather neatly the only active player in our Top 5 also finished fourth for the week. Jos Buttler got 111 courtesy of one good performance against West Indies. Could well finish the year in top spot (potentially rather undeservingly)

That Top 5 is:

1 Shakib Al Hasan 4846
2 Shubman Gill 4778
3 Jos Buttler 4747
4 Simon Harmer 4432
5 Ravindra Jadeja 4404

Moeen Ali is the most improved player of the week but his improvement of 2.68 points still seems him fourth worth. Suryakumar Yadav moves in the opposite direction and is now fourth worst with 94.69 a week.

Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 3316
One Day - Shubman Gill = 2504
Short Form = Jos Buttler = 3080


Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 3008
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 600
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 1020

Wickets - *Rashid Khan = 1860
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 330
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 940

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 870
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 120

Weekly List in Full

Moeen Ali 187
Sam Curran 168
Harry Brook 164
Jos Buttler 111
Usman Khawaja 58
Devon Conway 34
Suryakumar Yadav 6

Rishabh Pant dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Shakib Al Hasan dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Rashid Khan dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Marco Jansen dnp
Pat Cummins dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
David Warner dnp
Cam Green dnp


Overall List In Full

1 Shakib Al Hasan 4846
2 Shubman Gill 4778
3 Jos Buttler 4747
4 Simon Harmer 4432
5 Ravindra Jadeja 4404
6 Rashid Khan 4068
7 Devon Conway 4038
8 Sam Curran 3833
9 Babar Azam 3584
10 Moeen Ali 3375
11 Marco Jansen 3221
12 David Warner 3113
13 Suryakumar Yadav 3030
14 Harry Brook 2817
15 Hardik Pandya 2620
16 Cam Green 2279
17 Pat Cummins 2186
18 Usman Khawaja 2136
19 Jonny Bairstow 1812

Cameron Green - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Not so much a Top 5 this week as it is an 'Everyone who played this week 4'

Weekly Round Up

Back playing Sheffield Shield cricket and back in the points after what can only be described as a disappointing World Cup, Cameron Green (186 points) will be hoping to keep his place in the Test side with more of the same with the red ball. Moves above Pat Cummins into 16th.

With Australia losing David Warner, they need Usman Khawaja (154 points) in good form and he appears to be showing it in the Sheffield Shield. He scored his second century of the tournament this week against Western Australia.

Away from Red Ball cricket, Moeen Ali (115 points) is back playing the shortest of the short form games in the Abu Dhabi T10. Well shy of the form that he has shown in previous years, he has shown glimpses with both bat and ball in the opening matches of this tournament. Moves above David Warner into 11th.

As is so often the case, last week's Cricketer of the Week has had something of a stinker this time out. Scores of just 19 & 39 for SKY (98 points) see him as the lowest point scorer of the week.

Overall Top 5

Not only does the Overall Top 5 remain the same, none of the top ten even played this week.

This makes the Top 5, with 4 weeks of points still up for grabs:

1 Shakib Al Hasan 4846
2 Shubman Gill 4778
3 Jos Buttler 4636
4 Simon Harmer 4432
5 Ravindra Jadeja 4404

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 184.67
2. Shakib Al Hasan - 156.32
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 146.8

All 4 of our players improved their average this week with Cameron Green swelling his by the most - up 3.96 to 94.96.

Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 3316
One Day - Shubman Gill = 2504
Short Form = Jos Buttler = 3080


Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 3008
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 600
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 1000

Wickets - *Rashid Khan = 1860
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 330
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 940

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 860
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 120

Overall List In Full

1 Shakib Al Hasan 4846
2 Shubman Gill 4778
3 Jos Buttler 4636
4 Simon Harmer 4432
5 Ravindra Jadeja 4404
6 Rashid Khan 4068
7 Devon Conway 4004
8 Sam Curran 3665
9 Babar Azam 3584
10 Marco Jansen 3221
12 Moeen Ali 3188
11 David Warner 3113
13 Suryakumar Yadav 3024
14 Harry Brook 2653
15 Hardik Pandya 2620
17 Cam Green 2279
16 Pat Cummins 2186
18 Usman Khawaja 2078
19 Jonny Bairstow 1812

Marnus Labuschagne - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Huge totals this week and a huge amount of movement in The List

Weekly Update

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 408 - Quite quiet all year and then a monster score in the final month of the year. Despite the big score is only up a solitary place to 8th.

2. Steve Smith - 320 - Is starting to put his poor form behind him and producing some batting displays to make you sit up and take notice once more. So far behind the pace was he that 320 points does not see him move up from 18th place overall.

3. Joe Root - 216 - Bit of an all-round performance from the newly christened spin bowling option. All disciplines chipped in to see him finish third this week. He also moves back into the Top Ten.

4. Moeen Ali - 213 - Big things were expected of Moeen in the Abu Dhabi T10. He was dire for most of it and then pulled out a huge display in the game that knocked them out.

5. Travis Head - 209 - Is having something of an international revolution in the last few weeks of the year. Finished just short of a century in the first Test vs West Indies and also bagged two wickets to finish in the Top 5 once more.

Overall

1. Simon Harmer - 5856 - The presumptive Cricketer of the Year was inactive this week.... but he deserves to put his feet up.

2. Mohammad Rizwan - 4705 - Back in the points again this week but not enough to even cause a frisson of a potentiality of a hope of an interest of pushing top spot.

3. Moeen Ali - 4020 - Such was his poor form in the Abu Dhabi T10 that it was fully expected that Moeen would lose his Top 3 place however two blistering scores in his last two games puts 72 points between him and 4th.

4. Babar Azam - 3948 - A century knock for Pakistan against England was not enough for him to reclaim 4th spot.

5. Quinton De Kock - 3493 - Inactive for a calendar month.....but still holding on to 5th. This week could be his time of reckoning; he is only 166 points off the Test playing Ben Stokes.

Other Movers

So many players have registered scores outside the Top 5 for the week but have seen themselves move up The List. Ben Stokes move sup the most and finishes the highest - up from 8th to 6th. Meanwhile the 2 Aussies Warner and Cummins are both up a place to 11th and 16th respectively.

Ones to Watch

With the Australian Summer in full swing one of the big questions is, how far can Marnus go. He is in great form and is 2 points off 7th, 70 off 6th and 236 off 5th.

Top Three Averages

1. Simon Harmer = 195.2
2. Ben Stokes = 135.8 (Up from 134.75)
3. Babar Azam = 131.6 (Up from 129.93)

Steve Smith has improved his average by a huge 10.58 points a week to 97.68. It underlines Rajapaksa's awful year that, after having the lowest average already he has leaked the most and now only scores 67.15 a week.

Top Players By Format


Long Form - Simon Harmer = 4786
One Day - Travis Head = 1236
Short Form - Moeen Ali = 3556

Highest Points by Discipline

Runs - Mohammad Rizwan - 2735
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam = 560
Strike Rate - Moeen Ali = 880

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 2840
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 490
Economy - Simon Harmer = 1250

Fielding - *Rishabh Pant = 730
Fielding Bonus - Rishabh Pant = 110`

Weekly

Marnus Labuschagne 408
Steve Smith 320
Joe Root 216
Moeen Ali 213
Travis Head 209
Babar Azam 180
Ben Stokes 161
KL Rahul 147
Pat Cummins 110
David Warner 93
Mohammad Rizwan 85
Bhanuka Rajapaksa 35

Kyle Jamieson dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Matt Critchley dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Quinton De Kock dnp
Kane Williamson dnp
Hasan Ali dnp
Risabh Pant dnp
Simon Harmer dnp

Overall

1 Simon Harmer 5856
2 Mohammad Rizwan 4705
3 Moeen Ali 4020
4 Babar Azam 3948
5 Quinton De Kock 3493
6 Ben Stokes 3395
7 Rishabh Pant 3327
8 Marnus Labuschagne 3325
9 Glenn Maxwell 3248
10 Joe Root 2873
11 David Warner 2723
12 Hasan Ali 2696
13 KL Rahul 2607
14 Jonny Bairstow 2593
15 Pat Cummins 2484
16 Matt Critchley 2473
17 Travis Head 2228
18 Steve Smith 2149
19 Kane Williamson 1582
20 Kyle Jamieson 1547
21 Bhanuka Rajapaksa 1343