Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer- 201 - Here is a sight we haven't seen for a while! Simon Harmer claims his 46th Cricketer of the Week award after a year away from the List. Again, wasn't one of his vintage hauls but sees him. What money his 50th this year?

2. Quinton De Kock - 174 - Averaging a very pleasing 77.77 points per T20 game. Coming back off the SA20 and straight into dominating the World Cup. If you are playing South Africa you need to get him away ASAP or risk the game.

3. Aiden Markram - 134 - One decent performance against Canada and a less impressive one in that super-sized game against Afghanistan. Third straight week in the Top 5 though.

4. Saim Ayub - 133 - Not hit a great knock with the bat yet but has had some impactful cameos and also bagged two streaky wickets against the Netherlands. One of those deceptive weeks where you sneak into the Top 5 unknown.

5. Harry Brook - 120 - Is playing well even if his captaincy is leaving quite a bit to be desired. Has featured in the Weekly Top 5 for 3 of the 5 weeks he has played.

Overall Top 5

1.Vabhav Sooryavanshi - 1302 - After his Under 19 World Cup success, the young man has gone back to school to earn grades rather than points. His lead is 291 points off second.

2. Quinton De Kock - 1011 - His third successive week in second and with a decent week could overleap into the Gold position. Still a truckload of games to come.

3. Sam Curran - 844 - One of the better performing players in an under-performing England team. Finished the week with 95 points and managed to secure 3rd for a second week.

4. Aiden Markram- 827 - In spectacular form this year and moves back up into the fourth place spot that he lost last week.

5. Harry Brook - 726 - Despite the maelstrom of negativity that swirls around him, Brook makes his Top 5 debut. Never before has he flown so high, nor been so maligned.

Highest Weekly Average


1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 260.4
2.Ravindra Jadeja = 181.33
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 177.75

Good Week for Simon Harmer; up 25.4 points to 99.4. Bad week for Travis Head down 20.83 to 85.5.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- Simon Harmer = 248.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 108.5
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 101.57

Highest Points by Format

* =New Name

Red Ball- *Simon Harmer = 248.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1302
Short Form - Quinton De Kock = 837

Highest Points by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 742
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 170
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 280

Wickets - Marco Jansen = 220
Wicket Bonus = Sam Curran & *Simon Harmer - 40
Economy - Simon Harmer= 100

Fielding - Quinton de Kock = 140
Fielding Bonus - *Marco Jansen, Harry Brook, Quinton de Kock + Michael Bracewell = 10

Weekly List In Full

Simon Harmer 201
Quinton de Kock 174
Aiden Markram 134
Saim Ayub 133
Harry Brook 120
Jos Buttler 117
Marco Jansen 116
Sam Curran 95
Phil Salt 91
Pathum Nissanka 67
Liam Dawson 51
Travis Head 23
Rachin Ravindra 20
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 0

Paul Walter dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi dnp
Sophie Ecclestone dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp
Michael Bracewell dnp

Overall List in Full

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 1302
Quinton de Kock 1011
Sam Curran 844
Aiden Markram 827
Harry Brook 726
Nat Sciver-Brunt 711
Jos Buttler 589
Saim Ayub 582
Marco Jansen 576
Ravindra Jadeja 544
Simon Harmer 497
Pathum Nissanka 436
Liam Dawson 347
Travis Head 342
Rachin Ravindra 307
Shubman Gill 240
Sophie Ecclestone 226
Phil Salt 221
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 218
Nicholas Pooran 192
Michael Bracewell 184

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 433 - What a stunning performance in this tournament for this young man! Culminating, of course, with that destructive innings against England in the final. Vaibhav is the first player to two Cricketers of the Week in 2026.

2.Sam Curran - 229 - The upcoming T20 World Cup could be a very very important one in solidifying the Curran legacy. Certainly he has led into it well with a strong bowling performance in one T20 game against Sri Lanka and a strong batting performance in the other.

3. Simon Harmer - 200 - Well here we are once more. Harmer with red ball in hand with bags of wickets and a full compliment of Economy points. Expect to see much more of this as the year goes on.

4. Saim Ayub - 189 - Seems to have shrugged off his early year slump and has been in the Top 5 for two successive weeks. He moves into the Top 10 and, with a good T20 World Cup, could be right up in the thick of it.

5. Pathum Nissanka - 180 - Managed to rack up the points this week without doing anything too over the top. Three scores between 23 and 34but all at decent licks and it sees him comfortably in the Top 5. He also is 91 points off Marco Jansen in 10th Overall.

Overall Top 5

1.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1302 - 37 days into 2026 and Vaibhav has yet to not be our Number 1 Cricketer of the Year. His 433 points this week puts a gap between him and second again as he is our first 'man' past 1000 points.

2. Quinton de Kock - 837 - A quiet final T20 against West Indies....if you can call a 14 ball 28 quiet. He then followed that up with a warm up game against India where he neither batted nor kept wicket. Still enough for a second week at 2.

3.Sam Curran - 749 - His Player of the Tournament performances sees him move from 6th to 3rd this week. Last year's Cricketer of the Year is positioning himself very well again in 2026.

4. Nat Sciver-Brunt- 711 - Was, by some great distance, one of the stand out performers of the WIPL....but was not supported well enough by her team mates and did not make the final rounds. A spell in the wilderness now will see her slip down the List.

5. Aiden Markram - 693 - 38 runs at a 200+ strike rate in a warm up match against India slightly made up for his score of just 2 in the final T20 against West Indies. Moves down a spot to 5th overall with Brook 87 behind him.

Highest Weekly Average


1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 260.4(Up from 217.25)
2.Ravindra Jadeja = 181.33
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 177.75 (Down from 229.67)

Good Week for Vaibhav; up 642.15 points. Bad week for Nat Sciver-Brunt down 51.92 - leaking 81,75 in the last fortnight.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- n/a
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 108.5
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 101.57

Highest Points by Format



Red Ball- Travis Head - 262
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1302
Short Form - Quinton De Kock = 837

Highest Points by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 742
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 170
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 280

Wickets - Marco Jansen = 220
Wicket Bonus = Sam Curran - 40
Economy - * Simon Harmer= 100

Fielding - Quinton de Kock = 140
Fielding Bonus - *Harry Brook, Quinton de Kock + Michael Bracewell = 10

Weekly List In Full

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 433
Sam Curran 229
Simon Harmer 200
Saim Ayub 189
Pathum Nissanka 180
Jos Buttler 151
Harry Brook 116
Liam Dawson 114
Marco Jansen 91
Aiden Markram 80
Quinton de Kock 68
Phil Salt 67
Rachin Ravindra 60
Sophie Ecclestone 60
Nat Sciver-Brunt 22
Travis Head 4
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 1
Michael Bracewell 0

Paul Walter dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 1302
2 Quinton de Kock 837
3 Sam Curran 749
4 Nat Sciver-Brunt 711
5 Aiden Markram 693
6 Harry Brook 606
7 Ravindra Jadeja 544
8 Jos Buttler 472
9 Saim Ayub 469
10 Marco Jansen 460
11 Pathum Nissanka 369
12 Travis Head 319
13 Liam Dawson 296
14 Simon Harmer 296
15 Rachin Ravindra 287
16 Shubman Gill 240
17 Sophie Ecclestone 226
18 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 218
19 Nicholas Pooran 192
20 Michael Bracewell 184
21 Phil Salt 130

Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Only Williamson, Zampa, Curran and Buttler not in action this week as we see our second highest week of point scoring of 2025.

Weekly Top 5

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 280 - For the second week in a row an Indian player graces the top of the List despite their humbling defeat to South Africa. More points with the ball than the bat this week for Jadeja.

2. Phil Salt - 252 - Might denigrate Phil Salt's achievements in the Abu Dhabi T20 but across his 5 games this week he has scored above 30 in three of them and scored at a Strike Rate above 200 runs a ball. That's not nothing.

3. Travis Head- 204 -His match winning knock against a very poor England team feels like it was worth at least double his 204 points this week.....but rules are rules and here he sits. He didn't even move off 18th place overall.

4. Babar Azam - 180 - Three innings for Pakistan this week; two bad ones (16 & 0) and one very good one (74). 4th places seems about right for that. Moves up a place to 20th as a reward too.

5. Pathum Nissanka - 173 - Was a whisker away from his second T20I century but was not to be. Backed it up with two underwhelming performances with the bat in 2 matches against Pakistan to squeak into 5th.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4266 - Inactive for a third week. His cushion in first place snow 259 points.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4007 - Has been chipping away at the top 3 since the start of the World Cup and finally overhauls 2nd place despite an unassuming 119 this week,

3. Jos Buttler - 3912 - Inactive and MIGHT just be inactive for the rest of the year. Might he finish the year outside the Top 5.

4. Liam Dawson - 3847 - 50 points this week saw him only just hold on to 4th spot. It has been 26 weeks since Dawson was outside the Top 4.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 3810 - The highest score of the week only moved Jadeja away from 6th place by a dramatic margin. The 489 points between him and Sutherland is the largest gap on the List.

Ones To Watch

There are two pairs pf Cricketers all within one point of each other who will be playing this week. Firstly Delhi's Phil Salt will look to reel in Melbourne's Annabel Sutherland in 6th. Meanwhile Titans' Heinrich Klaasen will want to hold off England's Jamie Smith to hold 15th.

Other Movers

Klaasen moves up two places into 15th whilst Hasaranga edges into 14th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 147.1
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 141.11 (Up from 135.77)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 138.38 (Down from 143.13)

Jadeja skips past third place to become the second highest player in terms of average. Athapaththu drops out of thetop three after leaking 7.91 thanks to a shortened WBBL game.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3349

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

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

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1580
Wicket Bonus - *Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - *Ravindra Jadeja = 730

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

Weekly List In Full

Ravindra Jadeja 280
Phil Salt 252
Travis Head 204
Babar Azam 180
Pathum Nissanka 173
Suryakumar Yadav 162
Yashasvi Jaiwal 131
Saim Ayub 130
Heinrich Klaasen 128
Nicholas Pooran 121
Nat Sciver-Brunt 119
Liam Livingstone 107
Jasprit Bumrah 106
Harry Brook 102
Annabel Sutherland 98
Jamie Smith 98
Wanindu Hasaranga 91
Rishabh Pant 60
Liam Dawson 50
Chamari Athapaththu 0

Kane Williamson dnp
Adam Zampa dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Jos Buttler dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4266
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4007
3 Jos Buttler 3912
4 Liam Dawson 3847
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3810
6 Annabel Sutherland 3321
7 Phil Salt 3320
8 Nicholas Pooran 3297
9 Harry Brook 2830
10 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2767
11 Pathum Nissanka 2695
12 Saim Ayub 2692
13 Kane Williamson 2566
14 Wanindu Hasaranga 2438
15 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
16 Jamie Smith 2433
17 Chamari Athapaththu 2418
18 Travis Head 2231
19 Liam Livingstone 2077
20 Babar Azam 2051
21 Suryakumar Yadav 2046
22 Jasprit Bumrah 1958
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558