Babar Azam - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly List

1. Babar Azam - 270 - Is hitting his straps at just the right time for the T20 World Cup. It is his third Cricketer of the Week award of 2022 and his tenth in the three years on our List - this puts him joint fifth all time with Marnus Labuschagne.

2. Kane Williamson - 236 - Kane Williamson does not do well in these Lists. He is scheduled to finish in the bottom three for the second year in a row and has never been in the Top Ten. This is only the third time he has ever been in a weekly Top 5 in the last 2 years.

3. Mohammad Rizwan - 213 - The Reliant Rizwan still keeps trundling along. Over the last 2 months he has been in the Top 5 highest scores for all but 3 weeks and with the T20 World Cup round the corner I see no reason why that should stop.

4. Marnus Labuschagne - 167 - It is fair to say it has not been a vintage year for Marnus after his Cricketer of the Year accolade in 2022. He can still crack out a big score in the longest form though, as was seen in his century stand in Queensland's mauling of Tasmania.

5. David Warner - 147 - A sniff of a big tournament and David Warner is back to his big scoring ways. He knows when to turn it on and is back in the Top 5 for the second week on the bounce.

Overall

1. Simon Harmer - 4778 - Harmer's lead is plummeting quicker than the pound. Once a mighty 1363, he now has a lead of just 483. Needs to decide if he's playing in South Africa before the lead is gone.

2. Mohammad Rizwan - 4295 - Once upon a time, Rizwan was looking over his shoulder with a cavernous gap ahead of him. Now he is 751 points clear of third spot and dares to dream he could claim the top spot by the end of the T20 World Cup.

3. Babar Azam - 3544 - Cricketer of the Week and up two places to his highest position since mid-April. Everything is coming up Millhouse for Babar. He's even sorting out his Strike Rate issue.

4, Moeen Ali - 3533 - Another underwhelming display from Moeen sees him lose the third-place spot he has held for 6 weeks.

5. Quinton De Kock - 3326 - Last week I said it was famine or feast for the South African wicket-keeper, and he had a lean harvest this time out. After scoring 305 points last week he has scored 31 this. Down a place to 5th.

Other Movers

Two players moved position this week despite not having huge scores. Travis Head got 122 for the week but overtook Steve Smith into 18th whilst KL Rahul got 12 runs more but went up 2 spots to 14th.

Ones to Watch

Two Aussies with very different agendas might be worth keeping an eye on. The domesticated Travis Head is only 8 points clear of Steve Smith who is about to start the carnival of big hitting that will be the T20 World Cup. Who will have the edge?

Top Three Averages

1. Simon Harmer = 207.74
2. Babar Azam 147.67 (Up from 142.35)
3. Ben Stokes = 146.74 (Down from 151.33)


Stokes experienced the now traditional Test-to-T20 transition average dip and also moves down to the third highest average points per week. Kane Williamson's average improved by 11.5 points but his 63.5 points per week is still the worst of everyone's.

Top Players By Format


Long Form - Simon Harmer = 4063
One Day - Babar Azam = 1002
Short Form - Moeen Ali = 3137

Highest Points by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Mohammad Rizwan - 2485
Batting Bonus - *Babar Azam = 510
Strike Rate - Moeen Ali = 750

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 2280
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 410
Economy - Simon Harmer = 1020

Fielding - Quinton De Kock = 680
Fielding Bonus - Rishabh Pant = 110

Weekly

Babar Azam 270
Kane Williamson 236
Mohammad Rizwan 213
Marnus Labuschagne 167
David Warner 147
KL Rahul 134
Travis Head 122
Moeen Ali 84
Ben Stokes 64
Pat Cummins 38
Quinton De Kock 31
Risabh Pant 28
Bhanuka Rajapaksa 27
Glenn Maxwell 8

Kyle Jamieson dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Joe Root dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Matt Critchley dnp
Hasan Ali dnp
Steve Smith dnp

Overall

1 Simon Harmer 4778
2 Mohammad Rizwan 4295
3 Babar Azam 3544
4 Moeen Ali 3533
5 Quinton De Kock 3326
6 Rishabh Pant 3226
7 Glenn Maxwell 2847
8 Ben Stokes 2788
9 Marnus Labuschagne 2701
10 Joe Root 2648
11 Jonny Bairstow 2593
12 Matt Critchley 2473
13 David Warner 2238
14 KL Rahul 2115
15 Pat Cummins 2076
16 Hasan Ali 2037
17 Kyle Jamieson 1547
18 Travis Head 1520
19 Steve Smith 1512
20 Bhanuka Rajapaksa 1083
21 Kane Williamson 1016

Moeen Ali - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Weekly Update

1. Moeen Ali - 336 - Earlier on in the year Nicholas Pooran got a huge injection of points from the Abu Dhabi T10 League and now Moeen is doing the same thing. This is his highest weekly score of 2021.

2. Simon Harmer - 330 - A phenomenal game for the Titans against Western Province saw Harmer get a ten wicket haul. He was 6 points off top spot for the week. He has also taken over from Joe Root as the player with the most points in First Class cricket.

3. Marnus Labuschagne -193 - Back in the runs for Queensland and back in the Top 5 for the week however 198 isn't a huge score from a First Class and a List A game. He has, however, taken back his title of most runs scored in 2021 from Babar Azam.

4. Peter Siddle - 171 - Fresh from his table topping performance last week, Siddle got 5 wickets across two games this week for another 2 figure score and another Top 5 finish for the week.

5. Peter Handscomb - 102 - Back in action for the week and scored just enough to get into the top 5; however scored more points for catches in the field than he did for runs this week. Moves back up to 11th spot overall.

Overall List

1. Simon Harmer - 5073 - Just when it looks like Harmer will lose his top spot he pulls it out the fire. Another 330 points this week sees him 192 points clear.

2. Marnus Labuschagne - 4881 - Can't seem to do quite enough to move back into first and with The Ashes round the corner he will not play as regularly as he has been for Queensland.

3. Babar Azam - 4090 - The Bangladesh tour was a disappointing one for Babar personally but third spot is still comfortably his.

4. Moeen Ali - 3835 - Moeen has been on an upward trajectory for the last 10 weeks and moves up to his highest spot of the year so far thanks to his performances for the Northern Warriors.

5. Joe Root - 3614 - Was technically in action this week although he did not bat nor bowl in the heavily curtailed England Warm-Up Game. He has not been this low on the list since the second week of the year.

Ones to Watch

Ravichandran Ashwin and Peter Siddle are in 8th and 9th and have 71 points between them. They will both be looking upwards to see who can overtake the inactive Nicholas Pooran who has a lead of just 158 over them.

Highest Players by Format

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Long Form - *Simon Harmer - 3198
50 Over - Simon Harmer - 954
T20 - Babar Azam - 3068

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 187.89 (Up from 182.41)
2. Marnus Labuschagne - 187.73 (Up from 187.32)
3. Joe Root - 157.13 (Down from 164.27)

It seems VERY harsh to call the England Warm-Up game an active week but thems the rules. Subsequently Ben Stokes' return to cricket has seen his average dip by 8.4 as he did nothing. Moeen's average bumps up 7.37 to 136.96.

Highest Points by Discipline

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Runs - *Marnus Labuschagne - 2631
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 570
Strike Rate - Moeen Ali - 830

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 2260
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 420
Economy - Simon Harmer - 1190

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 660
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 100

Least Active

Strictly speaking....a load of people. For the first time in a while, all of our players have been active at some point over the last three weeks.

Weekly List

Moeen Ali 336
Simon Harmer 330
Marnus Labuschagne 198
Peter Siddle 171
Peter Handscomb 102
Babar Azam 29
Joe Root 0
Ben Stokes 0

Dawid Malan dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Quinton De Kock dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Kane Williamson dnp
David Warner dnp
Ravichandran Ashwin dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Steve Smith dnp

Overall

Simon Harmer 5073
Marnus Labuschagne 4881
Babar Azam 4090
Moeen Ali 3835
Joe Root 3614
Quinton De Kock 3177
Nicholas Pooran 2639
Ravichandran Ashwin 2481
Peter Siddle 2410
Dawid Malan 2235
Peter Handscomb 2169
Virat Kohli 2121
Glenn Maxwell 2118
Jasprit Bumrah 2093
Ben Stokes 1765
Kane Williamson 1721
Steve Smith 1449
David Warner 1354

Peter Siddle - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Weekly Update

1. Peter Siddle - 190 - A fairly meagre weekly high score is enough to see Siddle claim his third Cricketer of the Week accolade in what has been a fairly calm week for the Cricketing world. Makes a huge five place leap in the overall list to 9th.

2. Marnus Labuschagne - 156 - A Sheffield Shield and a Marsh Cup game in the same week would have seen Marnus hoping to score big; however his more modest totals sees him finish 'just' second.

3. Kane Williamson - 135 - Mr Second Place finishes third this week - he was the highest point scorer of the T20 World Cup Final though. He improved his overall score by 346 points across the competition but still stays in third bottom place overall.

4. David Warner - 103 - The T20 World Cup player of the series finishes the tournament with a fourth place finish off the back of his performance in the final. Scored the second most points of anyone on our List during the tournament but is STILL rock bottom overall.

5. Ravichandran Ashwin - 90 - Whilst his more 'glamorous' colleagues have a lay down, Ashwin is still plugging away against New Zealand. He has 360 more points than Kohli and 414 more than Bumrah.

Overall List

1. Simon Harmer - 4743 - Inactive this week but is due a fairly large haul of points in next week's update. We may be looking at Mr 2021.

2. Marnus Labuschagne - 4683 - Not a box office week for Marnus but gets his gap on first place down to two figures again.

3. Babar Azam - 4061 - Just 8 points for him this week but is pretty safe in 3rd place. There are 622 points to 2nd place and 447 to fourth.

4. Joe Root - 3614 - "And time goes by so slowly/And time can do so much"

5. Moeen Ali - 3499 - Last week I erroneously said it was hard to see when Moeen would get any more points this year....clearly forgetting the Abu Dhabi T10. Expect some incoming SR points.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 3140
50 Over - Simon Harmer - 954
T20 - Babar Azam - 3039

Top 3 Averages

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 187.32 (Down from 188.63)
1. Simon Harmer - 183.58
3. Joe Root - 164.27

Peter Siddle's high scoring week sees his average up by 2.91 to 149.27. Steve Smith had the largest decrease in points for the week for the third update on the trot. This time it is worth 7.19 points; he is now down to 103.5

Highest Points by Discipline

Runs - Babar Azam - 2461
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 570
Strike Rate - Moeen Ali - 710

Wickets = Simon Harmer= 2060
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 370
Economy - Simon Harmer - 1160

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 660
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 100

Least Active

Ben Stokes (15 Weeks)

Weekly

Peter Siddle 190
Marnus Labuschagne 156
Kane Williamson 135
David Warner 103
Ravichandran Ashwin 90
Glenn Maxwell 68
Moeen Ali 65
Steve Smith 10
Babar Azam 8

Ben Stokes dnp
Joe Root dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Peter Handscomb dnp
Dawid Malan dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Quinton De Kock dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp
Virat Kohli dnp

Overall

Simon Harmer 4743
Marnus Labuschagne 4683
Babar Azam 4061
Joe Root 3614
Moeen Ali 3499
Quinton De Kock 3177
Nicholas Pooran 2639
Ravichandran Ashwin 2481
Peter Siddle 2239
Dawid Malan 2235
Virat Kohli 2121
Glenn Maxwell 2118
Jasprit Bumrah 2093
Peter Handscomb 2067
Ben Stokes 1765
Kane Williamson 1721
Steve Smith 1449
David Warner 1354