Marco Jansen - The Best Cricketer of the Year

 Usually by this point of the year we are all done and dusted but there is so much to play for with 9 days of cricket left in the year.

Weekly Top 5

1. Marco Jansen - 326 - Jansen producing a late year red ball score that we usually associate with Simon Harmer. Showed his true allrounder credentials courtesy of 5 wickets and 96 runs for Warriors in the CSA 4-Day Series Division 1

2. Jos Buttler - 267 - Has been a torrid last third of the year for England's white ball captain but he produced two 50+ scores and finishes in second place this week.

3. David Warner - 234 - Warner has featured in 5 of our last 6 years however his position in 2024 could be in doubt with his long form retirement. Could this have been his swansong?

4. Usman Khawaja - 171 - Backed up his political beliefs with an equally forthright performance with the bat to continue his dominance of the Weekly Top 5....when he plays. Only Pat Cummins has featured in fewer weeks of cricket than Ussie this year.

5. Pat Cummins - 129 - Over half of his points came from his economical ways with the ball in the first Test against Pakistan.

Overall Top 5

1. Jos Buttler - 5078 - We expected this to happen during the World Cup so it has been a loooooong time coming but, with a week left in the year, Jos Buttler returns to the top spot for the first time in 39 weeks.

2. Shakib Al Hasan - 4846 - Absent pursuing political office (something that doesn't earn you many points in this game). The Bangaldesh captain has been first for 55% of the year but drops down a place when it matters most.

3. Shubman Gill - 4786 - Inactive this week but has a Test Match to play so is scheduled to finish second (or maybe) first when the final tally is counted. Needs 292 points from that game to take the laurels.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 4487 - Inactive this week - but is very likely to finish fourth. Has a Test match on the horizon but has 299 points to make up for third. Has been a very successful year for the spinner though.

5. Simon Harmer - 4432 - Destined to finish in fifth thanks to his disappearing act after the County Championship rounded off. Has a 322 point jump on 6th place.

Other Movers

Dropped in the World Cup and disappointing in the series against the West Indies, Curran still manages to leapfrog both Rashid Khan and Devon Conway into 6th place this week.

Ones to Watch

There are a cluster of Aussies towards the end of our List that could feature in any order by the end of the Boxing Day Test. Cam Green has a 10 point lead on Pat Cummins who himself has an 8 point advantage on Usman Khawaja.

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 184.67
2. Shakib Al Hasan - 156.32
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 144.74

In a week where all but one player improved their average - Marco Jansen's List topping score saw him improve by the most (6.9). That odd man out was Babar Azam - down 2.67 points to 122.3 a week.


Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 3316
One Day - Shubman Gill = 2504
Short Form = Jos Buttler = 3411

Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 3016
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 600
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 1100

Wickets - Ravindra Jadeja = 1890
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 330
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 940

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 920
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 120

Weekly List in Full

Marco Jansen 326
Jos Buttler 267
David Warner 234
Usman Khawaja 171
Pat Cummins 129
Sam Curran 122
Harry Brook 104
Moeen Ali 93
Babar Azam 45

Rishabh Pant dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Shakib Al Hasan dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Rashid Khan dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Cam Green dnp
Devon Conway dnp
Shubman Gill dnp

Overall List

Rank Player Points
1 Jos Buttler 5078
2 Shakib Al Hasan 4846
3 Shubman Gill 4786
4 Ravindra Jadeja 4487
5 Simon Harmer 4432
6 Sam Curran 4110
7 Rashid Khan 4068
8 Devon Conway 4051
9 Babar Azam 3669
10 Marco Jansen 3587
11 Moeen Ali 3530
12 David Warner 3347
13 Suryakumar Yadav 3306
14 Harry Brook 2958
15 Hardik Pandya 2620
16 Cam Green 2325
17 Pat Cummins 2315
18 Usman Khawaja 2307
19 Jonny Bairstow 1812

Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer - 424 - Scores the third highest score of the year - meaning he now makes up 3 of the Top 5 scores of the year. Ends his hugely profligate period of the year with his 6th Cricketer of the Week; nobody else has more than 4.

2. Shubman Gill - 298 - 2 big scores sees Gill in good touch pre his World Cup commitments. 298 would have seen you win Cricketer of the Week in all but 13 weeks of this year.

3. David Warner - 281 - Warner making steady improvement sin his scores this week. First came 52 with 10 SR points then 52 with 20 SR points and then 56 with 30 SR. Sequence fans will be looking for a 56 at 200+ SR.

4. Suryakumar Yadav - 260 - Giving the Indian selectors a bit of a headache by showing what he is capable of in India's second strings series against Australia. He moves up two places to 11th overall.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 181 - A fairly decent score but, knowing what Jadeja seems capable of, 181 split across 3 ODIs seems a bit underwhelming.

Overall

1. Simon Harmer - 4432 - Moves up to top spot again.....but only 132 points separates him from 2nd. hard to see if he will now go back home and turn out for the Warriors but it feels like Harmer will not win Cricketer of the Year this time out.

2. Shakib Al Hasan - 4300 - Inactive this week and loses top spot. He is the second highest One Day point scorer though so might use the World Cup to move back into pole position.

3. Shubman Gill - 4184 - Second place for the week and up one place to 3rd. Has just 16 points on fourth place but is in electric form with a plethora of games on the horizon.

4. Jos Buttler - 4168 - Inactive this week and down TWO places. That Top 4 is looking very fluis at the moment though so could be anywhere by the end of the World Cup.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 3557 - Jadeja bloody loves 5th spot. Spent 11 straight weeks there and another 4 dotted across the year. he is back there once more but is a long long way away from 4th.

Other Mover

Cummins returns from his eight week leave of absence and takes back 18th place.

Ones To Watch

The smallest gap this week is between Gill and Buttler in third and fourth. Excitingly they play each other in a World Cup Warm Up on Saturday.

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 184.67
2. Shakib Al Hasan - 165.38
3. Shubman Gill - 154.96


Points By Format

* = New Name

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 3316
One Day - *Shubman Gill = 1910
Short Form = Jos Buttler = 3080


Points By Discipline


Runs - Shubman Gill = 2654
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 520
Strike Rate - Jos Buttler = 870

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 1840
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 330
Economy - Simon Harmer = 850

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 700
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 100

Weekly List In Full

Simon Harmer 424
Shubman Gill 298
David Warner 281
Suryakumar Yadav 260
Ravindra Jadeja 181
Pat Cummins 150
Cam Green 149
Usman Khawaja 12

Rishabh Pant dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Devon Conway dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Shakib Al Hasan dnp
Marco Jansen dnp
Rashid Khan dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp

Overall

Rank Player Points
1 Simon Harmer 4432
2 Shakib Al Hasan 4300
3 Shubman Gill 4184
4 Jos Buttler 4168
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3557
6 Sam Curran 3540
7 Rashid Khan 3413
8 Devon Conway 3304
9 Babar Azam 2824
10 Moeen Ali 2652
11 Suryakumar Yadav 2530
12 Hardik Pandya 2489
13 Marco Jansen 2374
14 Harry Brook 2357
15 David Warner 2170
16 Cam Green 1890
17 Usman Khawaja 1702
18 Pat Cummins 1436
19 Jonny Bairstow 1403

Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week (again)

 

Weekly Update

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 336 - Just keeps getting better and better. Only his third active week but he keeps improving and his average is now a lofty 315.33 points per week. All three og his scores so far this year have been in the top 44% of all scores registered in the last 5 years

2. Harry Brook - 233 - Should feel well hard-done-by for not getting his inaugural Cricketer of the Week accolade...however one feels that it might just be a week's deferral. Surprisingly, still only 13th on the Overall list.

3. Rashid Khan - 195 - For the second successive week, Rashid turns out for two different teams; starting off with Afghanistan before joining up with the Lahore Qalandars. He's registering just 85.25 points a week but has played every week so is on the grind.

4. Babar Azam - 134 - You can always rely on Babar to put on one decent score a week - this time it was the 75* in the loss to Islamabad. Up a place to 12th overall.

=5 Devon Conway - 107 - A decent score in the first dig against England was followed up by just 2 runs in the second. Is not showing the consistency he showed last year but still manages a joint 5th place spot.

=5. Usman Khawaja - 107 - 83 runs split (fairly unevenly) across two innings for Uzzy. Hard to tell if he has proved to his critics that he can play in the sub-continent, but he has two more matches to prove that...or not.

Overall

1. Shubman Gill - 1179 - Gill was so strong in the first few weeks of the year that he can take a month off and still have a 40 point lead at the top of the table. Rumour has it, he might be back next week to continue his reign of terror.

2. Jos Buttler - 1139 - Inactive this week but will have had 2 ODIs under his belt by next week's update. Could be anywhere in the Top 5 by that time.

3. Shakib Al Hasan - 1005 - After his solitary game for Peshawar Zalmi, Shakib had to depart for a family emergency in America. I am unsure what this means for his inclusion in the BAN v ENG series.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 946 - Jadeja leaps into the Top 5 with a hop skip and a jump. Was 12th before the IND v AUS, jumped to 9th after the First Test and is now in fourth. Jadeja averages 315.33 a week and is 233 from top spot. Makes ya think.

5. Devon Conway - 901 - An OK-ish performance in the first Test against England combined with a tied weekly score with Usman Khawaja and an inactive week from Hardik Pandya sees Conway down just 1 place and just abotu holding on to his Top 5 berth.

Ones To Watch

Two players playing in the Longer form, one domestically, the other internationally, Janen and Khawaja have just 4 points between them in 7th and 8th. He will impressive more this week?

Top 3 Averages

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 315.33 (Up from 305)
2. Shubman Gill - 235.8
3. Jos Buttler 227.8

Devon Conway is down 8.63 this week and is the biggest loser - however still manages 150.17 points a week. Harry Brook's bumper score boosts him to 124 - 36.33 points of improvement.

Points By Format

Long Form - Ravindra Jadeja = 946
One Day - Shubman Gill = 867
Short Form = Shakib Al Hasan = 1005

Points By Format

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

Wickets -*Ravindra Jadeja = 500
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 110
Economy - Rashid Khan = 220

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

Weekly Update

Ravindra Jadeja 336
Harry Brook 233
Rashid Khan 195
Babar Azam 134
Devon Conway 107
Usman Khawaja 107
Pat Cummins 93
Marco Jansen 81
David Warner 15

Jonny Bairstow dnp
Cam Green dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Shakib Al Hasan dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp

Overall

1 Shubman Gill 1179
2 Jos Buttler 1139
3 Shakib Al Hasan 1005
4 Ravindra Jadeja 946
5 Devon Conway 901
6 Hardik Pandya 793
7 Usman Khawaja 757
8 Marco Jansen 753
9 Rashid Khan 682
10 Suryakumar Yadav 614
11 Sam Curran 550
12 Babar Azam 521
13 Harry Brook 496
14 Moeen Ali 465
15 Pat Cummins 330
16 David Warner 195
17 Simon Harmer 102