Phil Salt - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 One fewer Cricketer played this week compared to last but our contributors still scored over 300 points more.

Weekly Top 5

1. Phil Salt - 291 - Surprisingly a very high  score for Salt this week. His team are in quite a bad way and he hasn't had one particularly huge score.....but he's plugged away in two T20s and one ODI to claim his third Cricketer of the Week since he joined in 2024.

2. Annabel Sutherland - 273 - A huge score for the burgeoning Australian that sees her leap up the overall List too. She was 13th last year and now is on the cusp of the Top 5 this week.

3. Nicholas Pooran - 218 - Did what he does best this week. Big hitting performances in a relatively obscure T20 competition. Scores of 58 and 42 were slightly let down by only 8 in his match against Sharjah Warriors. Still enough for his 200+ score this week of the year.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 141 - A rather poor showing in his final Ranji Trophy game was followed up with a threefer in the first ODI against England. Plenty more to come.

5. Travis Head - One of our least active players of 2025 so far but will always do a job in Test cricket. Was only called upon to bat once in the first match against Sri Lanka but bagged himself 57 runs at a decent lick. He's moved up from 22nd to 17th.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 781 - Not one of his epic weeks but still bagged himself 100+ points and moves up into top spot. Only 152 points separate 1st from 5th though so could be a real juggle over coming weeks.

2. Chamari Athapaththu - 759 - Inactive this week and down to second...will be gagging for the start of the WIPL to be back in the thick of it again.

3. Nicholas Pooran - 663 - Surged back into the Top 5 after a week away courtesy of his good week in the ILT20 performances....only the final left for him now though.

4. Wanindu Hasaranga - 660 - Only one match for the long term third place Sri Lankan this week ...but has the final over the weekend and with just 3 points separating him from his most favoured position you wouldn't be surprised to see him nick it.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 629 - Loves a fifth place finish ....and despite finishing in the Top 5 for the week he still sinks down to a place. The gap between him and 6th is 121, the second biggest of any gap on the List.

Ones To Watch

Fellow strugglers Harry Brook and Pathum Nissanka have just a point between and the majority of the List above them. How far can they get in the next week?

Top 3 Averages

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 209.67 (Down from 244)
2. Sam Curran - 195.25 (Down from 226.33)
3. Chamari Athapaththu - 189.75

Phil Salt's big week sess him improve by 54.92 points whilst Sam Curran's underpar week sees him down the most....but still hold 2nd place overall.

Top Players By Format

*=New Name

Red Ball - Ravindra Jadeja - 488
One Day - Nat Sciver-Brunt - 225
Short Form - *Sam Curran - 781

Top Players by Discipline

Runs - Sam Curran - 291
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam, Sam Curran, Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, *Nat Sciver-Brunt, *Jos Buttler, *Heinrich Klaasen & *Phil Salt - 40
Strike Rate -Sam Curran - 140

Wickets - Wanindu Hasaranga = 320
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja - 80
Economy - Wanindu Hasaranga = 130

Fielding - *Phil Salt & Nicholas Pooran = 110
Fielding Bonus - Sam Curran, Nicholas Pooran & *Phil Salt - 10

Weekly List In Full

Phil Salt 291
Annabel Sutherland 273
Nicholas Pooran 218
Ravindra Jadeja 141
Travis Head 127
Heinrich Klaasen 126
Nat Sciver-Brunt 119
Jos Buttler 111
Harry Brook 103
Sam Curran 102
Liam Dawson 72
Wanindu Hasaranga 64
Liam Livingstone 63
Kane Williamson 42
Suryakumar Yadav 32
Yashavi Jaiwal 25
Adam Zampa 0

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 781
2 Chamari Athapaththu 759
3 Nicholas Pooran 663
4 Wanindu Hasaranga 660
5 Ravindra Jadeja 629
6 Annabel Sutherland 508
7 Liam Dawson 483
8 Phil Salt 475
9 Nat Sciver-Brunt 457
10 Kane Williamson 383
11 Heinrich Klaasen 369
12 Jos Buttler 368
13 Babar Azam 363
14 Adam Zampa 363
15 Rishabh Pant 209
16 Liam Livingstone 183
17 Travis Head 175
18 Harry Brook 161
19 Pathum Nissanka 160
20 Suryakumar Yadav 127
21 Jasprit Bumrah 112
22 Yashavi Jaiwal 102
23 Jamie Smith 58
24 Saim Ayub 0

Sam Curran - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Gone early this week as I'm laid up with flu so thought that I might as well get ahead of it before my immune system collapses.

Weekly Top 5....but also kind of Top 7

1. Sam Curran - 221 - Rather enjoying the ILT20 and is tucking into the bowlers. Known more as a bowling all-rounder than the adverse, he has scored more points with the bat than he has with the ball in this competition. This is his 6th all time Cricketer of the Week.

2. Kane Williamson - 171 - Liberated from semi-retirement from the New Zealand set-up, Williamson is reinventing himself as T20 gun for hire.....and this week he has hit the target with scores of 56 & 45 in the SA20.

3. Adam Zampa - 150 - Without pausing for breath has gone from the BBL to the ILT20 and has bagged a pleasingly increasing amount of wickets. Starting off with 0 wickets in Game 1 vs the Desert Vipers, he then got 1, then 2 and finished the week with a threefer against the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders

=4. Jos Buttler - 139 - Pleasing consistency from Buttler as those around him do not do as well. This is his second three figure score in succession. Moves up to 11th in the Overall list.

=4. Chamari Athapaththu - 139 - No fireworks for the Sri Lankan this week but could have achieved more if not for the wash out at Wellington that took 40 wicket points away from her.

=4. Heinrich Klaasen - 139 - Snapped out of a poor run of form with 66 against MI Cape Town. Moves up to 12th in the Overall List.

5. Wanindu Hasaranga - 130 - Solid performances from Hasaranga this week sees him round off the Top 5. Keeping his eye in with economy points; he has the second best Economy in the ILT20 and the most Economy points of any of the bowlers on the List.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 759 - Finished in the Top 5 of the week again and completes 4 straight weeks at the top of the List.....her lead is now just 80 though.

2. Sam Curran - 679 - Curran lost 2nd place last week, skipping third place and dropping to fourth. This week he reclaims it with a weekly high score, skips third place and narrows the gap to first.

3. Wanindu Hasaranga - 596 - Yet again does just enough to hold third place for the entire month of January. The 108 point gap between him and fourth place is now the largest gap on the List.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 488 - Inactive this week. Down two places but still holds a Top 5 berth.

5. Nicholas Pooran - 445 - Dropped out of the Overall Top 5 last week but returns, largely courtesy of a rather impressive 70 points from fielding last week.

Ones To Watch

international Team Mates Harry Brook and Jamie Smith are both tied up on 58 points so far.....who will get the most out of the remaining T20 games?

Top 3 Averages

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 244
2. Sam Curran - 226.33 (Down from 229)
3. Chamari Athapaththu - 189.75 (Down from 206.67)

After remembering that he is rather a good cricketer this week, Liam Livingstone's average improves the most up 33 points. Nicholas Pooran's drops the most; -34.67 at 148.33.

Top Players By Format

*=New Name

Red Ball - Ravindra Jadeja - 488
One Day - Nat Sciver-Brunt - 225
Short Form - Chamari Athapaththu - 759

Top Players by Discipline

Runs - * Sam Curran - 239
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam, *Sam Curran, *Nicholas Pooran & *Kane Williamson - 40
Strike Rate - Nicholas Pooran, *Chamari Athapaththu & *Sam Curran - 100

Wickets - *Wanindu Hasaranga & *Adam Zampa = 300
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja - 60
Economy - *Wanindu Hasaranga = 110

Fielding - *Nicholas Pooran = 110
Fielding Bonus - Sam Curran & *Nicholas Pooran - 10

Weekly List in Full

Sam Curran 221
Kane Williamson 171
Adam Zampa 150
Jos Buttler 139
Chamari Athapaththu 139
Heinrich Klaasen 139
Wanindu Hasaranga 130
Liam Livingstone 106
Nicholas Pooran 79
Babar Azam 62
Jamie Smith 58
Annabel Sutherland 53
Liam Dawson 40
Phil Salt 39
Harry Brook 31
Yashavi Jaiwal 30
Suryakumar Yadav 26
Nat Sciver-Brunt 11

Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Travis Head dnp
Saim Ayub dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp


Overall List In Full

Chamari Athapaththu 759
Sam Curran 679
Wanindu Hasaranga 596
Ravindra Jadeja 488
Nicholas Pooran 445
Liam Dawson 411
Babar Azam 363
Adam Zampa 363
Kane Williamson 341
Nat Sciver-Brunt 338
Jos Buttler 257
Heinrich Klaasen 243
Annabel Sutherland 235
Rishabh Pant 209
Phil Salt 184
Pathum Nissanka 160
Liam Livingstone 120
Jasprit Bumrah 112
Yashavi Jaiwal 102
Harry Brook 58
Jamie Smith 58
Travis Head 48
Suryakumar Yadav 46
Saim Ayub 0

Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 More active cricketers this week - but only a handful of big scores. the average score this week was a mere 85 points.

Weekly Update

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 320 - Only played in 2 game weeks of this year but has got over 250 points in each outing. This week was impressive for its all-round dominance. Moves up 3 places to ninth on the overall List.

2. Moeen Ali - 146 - Moeen has really upped his franchise game of late. Over the last 2 months he played in the International League T20 either side of the England v South Africa games. He was then parachuted into the BPL to help Comilla lift the title.

3. Babar Azam - 117 - PSL 2023 sees Azam play for a different franchise however will be a huge points booster for the Pakistan captain. That being said, despite the third highest score of the week, he still stays 13th overall - 85 points from Curran in 12th.

4. Rashid Khan - 83 - Had one of those weeks where you feel like his points should have been higher. A pair of braces for Rashid was not backed up by any other points - even from economy points, traditionally one of his strong suits.

5. Pat Cummins - 77 - A disappointing start to the IND v AUS series but he was the standout contributor of the three Aussies we have.

Overall Update

Not much to report here really. 4 out of our Top 5 were inactive with Shakib Al Hasan being the only cricketer to feature. His 51 points him 134 points off Buttler in second and 211 away from Conway in 4th.

Shubman Gill 1179
Jos Buttler 1139
Shakib Al Hasan 1005
Devon Conway 794
Hardik Pandya 793

Other Movers

Marco Jansen makes it two weeks in a row where he doesn't perform hugely well but still moves up. This week it is 33 points in the SA20 final that sees him up to 6th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 305
2. Shubman Gill
3. Jos Buttler 227.8

Moeen Ali is this week's most improved average as he goes up by 13 and a quarter points to 93 points a week. Usman Khawaja's bubble bursts as he leaks 31 points on his average and is down to 130 a week.

Points By Format

Long Form - Ravindra Jadeja = 610
One Day - Shubman Gill = 867
Short Form = Shakib Al Hasan = 1005

Points By Format

* = New Name

Runs - Shubman Gill = 779
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill - 160
Strike Rate - Shakib Al Hasan - 230

Wickets - *Ravindra Jadeja = 300
Wicket Bonus - *Ravindra Jadeja = 60
Economy - Rashid Khan = 140

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 160
Fielding Bonus - Devon Conway & Jos Buttler = 20

Weekly List In Full

Ravindra Jadeja 320
Moeen Ali 146
Babar Azam 117
Rashid Khan 83
Pat Cummins 77
Shakib Al Hasan 51
Marco Jansen 33
David Warner 11
Suryakumar Yadav 8
Usman Khawaja 6

Jonny Bairstow dnp
Cam Green dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Devon Conway dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Sam Curran dnp

Overall List

1 Shubman Gill 1179
2 Jos Buttler 1139
3 Shakib Al Hasan 1005
4 Devon Conway 794
5 Hardik Pandya 793
6 Marco Jansen 672
7 Usman Khawaja 650
8 Suryakumar Yadav 614
9 Ravindra Jadeja 610
10 Rashid Khan 587
11 Sam Curran 550
12 Moeen Ali 465
13 Babar Azam 387
14 Harry Brook 263
15 Pat Cummins 237
16 David Warner 180
17 Simon Harmer 102