Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week....Again

 

A lot of shifts and changes all over the shop this week. Let's get into it.

Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer - 341 - 2 Cricketers of the Week back to back for Harmer. Interestingly his score this week is his highest of 2024 but not even in his top ten highest scores of all time.

2. James Vince - 159 - Not quite back to his best but certainly back to his most-alright. 88 runs and another 3 catches in the second innings to make him the undisputed king of fielding points. 440 this year puts him 80 more than Phil Salt and 130 above the nearest non-wktkpr

3. Travis Head - 151 - That scorching 59 against England feels like it needs more than the mere 40 Strike Rate points it got but here we are with Head in third place for the week.

4. Babar Azam - 116 - Not really beating the allegations that he can only turn it on when the pressure is off, Azam got his best score in 15 weeks in some friendly knockabout with his mates in the Champions One Day Cup

5. Moeen Ali - 67 - Rather sneaks in to the Top 5 this week. 27 runs at an OK Strike Rate and a wicket against Gloucestershire in the T20 Blast sees him skid onto the Top Table on the week he announced his international retirement.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 3753 - Completes a hat trick of weeks at Number One on our list despite another inactive week. Her lead is now very narrow.

2. James Vince - 3702 - Finished second for the week and burst towards top spot. A huge 715 separate him and third spot.

3. Sam Curran - 2987 - Still in third place despite a slightly ignominious showing in the first T20 against Australia. Plenty more white ball cricket in him yet.

4. Travis Head - 2877 - A second week in fourth for Travis Head who is looking in the very finest of touch.

5. Babar Azam - 2827 - Holds fifth place but will be looking over his shoulder at Simon Harmer who is bursting up the rankings. Only 189 points between him and the born again spinner.

Ones To Watch

Shubman Gill may wish to use the Duleep Trophy to reignite his ailing year. He is currently in 14th but could jump as much as four places with as few as 225 points.

Other Movers

Quite a few incidental scores have seen players move up Overall. Brook, Salt and Hardie all move up a place to 15th, 7th and 20th respectively despite barely scrapping over 50.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 187.65
2. Babar Azam - 141.35 (Down from 142.68)
3. Marnus Labuschagne - 132.44

Harry Brook's poor week sees him down by 4.21 to 103.61 whilst Harmer takes a huge boost of 10.43 up to 114.7 a week.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 2065
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Sam Curran - 2899

Highest scorer by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - James Vince - 2222
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 340
Strike Rate - James Vince = 690

Wickets - * Simon Harmer = 1120
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 220
Economy - Simon Harmer - 650

Fielding – James Vince = 440
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 40

Weekly Scores In Full

Simon Harmer 341
James Vince 159
Travis Head 151
Babar Azam 116
Moeen Ali 67
Shubman Gill 66
Mitchell Marsh 63
Aaron Hardie 61
Phil Salt 60
Yashasvi Jaiswal 49
Sam Curran 48
Harry Brook 32

Daryl Mitchell dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Steve Smith dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Chamari Athapaththu 3753
2 James Vince 3702
3 Sam Curran 2987
4 Travis Head 2877
5 Babar Azam 2827
6 Simon Harmer 2638
7 Phil Salt 2410
8 Yashasvi Jaiswal 2402
9 Marnus Labuschagne 2384
10 Rachin Ravindra 2178
11 Jos Buttler 2104
12 Moeen Ali 2034
13 Glenn Maxwell 1955
14 Shubman Gill 1953
15 Harry Brook 1865
16 Virat Kohli 1837
17 Ravindra Jadeja 1826
18 Daryl Mitchell 1382
19 Mitchell Marsh 1310
20 Aaron Hardie 1158
21 Steve Smith 1098
22 Usman Khawaja 421

Sam Curran - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 301 - Before this week, Curran's best score of the week was 176, this week he nearly doubled that courtesy of 161 runs in 2 games in the T20 Blast. Becomes the third player to win three Cricketers of the Week across more than one year alongside Head and Handscomb.

2. Travis Head - 208 - Two identical scores in two MLC games this week. He scored 54 at a SR of 150+ scoring 104 points against Los Angeles and then scored 54 at a SR of 150+ scoring 104 points against New York. Consistent.

3. Moeen Ali - 195 - Enjoying his domestic cricket once more...but has very much been helped by the fact he has played three games across the week. His high point was 59 off the bat against Derbyshire.

4. Marnus Labuschagne - 173 - Continues his love affair with the English domestic game with his fourth successive score of 100 or more. Since joining up with Glamorgan he has averaged 171.77 points a week.

5. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 165 - Was lighting up our lists on a week by week basis before his total omission from a majority of the T20 World Cup. Is now back in fine fettle most notably in his score of 93 against Zimbabwe this week.

Overall Top 5

1. James Vince - 2833 - A second week in top spot this week courtesy of his fifth 100+ scoring week since the start of the English Domestic season.

2. Babar Azam - 2647 - Only bottom placed Usman Khawaja has been inactive longer than Babar Azam, he spends another week in second after losing top spot last week.

3. Chamari Athapaththu - 2574 - Inactive again this week but will be back in action in the Women's Asia Cup this week. Will be looking up the table rather than down due to the 73 point gap to 2nd slightly more pressing than the 320 gap below her.

4. Marnus Labuschagne - 2254 - Has inflated his total by 1546 in the ten weeks since the start of the English Domestic season. Jumps up another place to 4th.

5. Travis Head - 2221 - Spent a solitary week out of 5th spot before reclaiming it again this week. He has spent 6 weeks in 5th place this year. Three further weeks and he usurps Jadeja who has spent 9 weeks there.

Other Movers

Rachin Ravindra moves up two places to 10th whilst Phil Salt nudges further back into the Top Ten again; up one to 9th.


Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 183.86
2. Babar Azam - 155.71
3. Jos Buttler - 131.5

Sam Curran improves his average by 12.15 thanks to his stellar week - after a pretty unstellar year. Aaron Hardie is the only player shoe average goes down - decreasing by 2.7 to 73.25; the second to worst average of anyone.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 1409
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 706
Short Form = Babar Azam - 2598

Highest scorer by Discipline


Runs - James Vince - 1713
Batting Bonus -Babar Azam - 290
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 610

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 840
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer = 140
Economy - Simon Harmer - 510

Fielding – James Vince = 360
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 30

Weekly Scores In Full

Sam Curran 301
Travis Head 208
Moeen Ali 195
Marnus Labuschagne 173
Yashasvi Jaiswal 165
Glenn Maxwell 145
James Vince 138
Phil Salt 130
Simon Harmer 124
Shubman Gill 123
Rachin Ravindra 122
Steve Smith 80
Aaron Hardie 44

Usman Khawaja dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Harry Brook dnp

Overall List In Full

1 James Vince
2 Babar Azam
3 Chamari Athapaththu
4 Marnus Labuschagne
5 Travis Head
6 Yashasvi Jaiswal
7 Jos Buttler
8 Simon Harmer
9 Phil Salt
10 Rachin Ravindra
11 Ravindra Jadeja
12 Sam Curran
13 Virat Kohli
14 Shubman Gill
15 Glenn Maxwell
16 Moeen Ali
17 Daryl Mitchell
18 Mitchell Marsh
19 Harry Brook
20 Aaron Hardie
21 Steve Smith
22 Usman Khawaja

Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

One of those weird weeks where, despite only three people featuring, so much has changed on a larger scale. First off a review of those three players.

Weekly Round Up

The first massive week for Harmer in 2023 and it was a Big Daddy - his 401 was the 21st highest weekly score ever. This was courtesy of a double five-fer against Warwickshire added to 2 wickets from a T20 Blast outing against Warwickshire.

In 32% of the 218 weeks we have been playing this game, Sam Curran's 234 points would have been the highest score of the week but he has to settle for silver medal this time out. A very decent return to red ball cricket for Surrey.

Jos Buttler's 153 points this week came from a solitary T20 Blast fixture and is probably the highest lowest weekly score... if you see what I mean.

Overall Table

1. Shubman Gill - 3001 - Still holding on to that top place berth after six weeks, but now has a lead of a mere 118.

2. Jos Buttler - 2883 - Not only holds second place, but significantly narrows the gap to first whilst distancing himself from third place.

3. Simon Harmer - 2691 - Much like the all-conquering Thanos of the Marvel franchise, Harmer is inevitable. His return to the Top 5 (skipping out any time in 4th and 5th) brings order to the chaotic world of cricket once more.

4. Sam Curran - 2688 - Despite his hard graft in the T20 Blast, it was a rare County Championship appearance that saw Curran into his debut spell in the Overall Top 5.

5. Rashid Khan - 2612 - His 23 weeks of constant activity have been undermined by three inactive weeks and he threatens to lose the Top 5 berth he has held for 17 weeks.

Ones To Watch

Another week where the big battle is between Harmer and Curran. This battle started when they were 8th and 9th and continues with them holding 3rd and 4th spot....with just 3 points between them.

Top 3 Averages

1. Shakib Al Hasan - 185.79
2. Simon Harmer - 168.14 (Up from 152.67)
3. Shubman Gill - 166.72

Harmer's average jumps up by 15.52 this week to make him the second highest average of anyone. His average has improved by 40 points per week over the last 5 weeks.

Points By Format

Long Form - Simon Harmer = 1988
One Day - Shakib Al Hasan = 969
Short Form = Rashid Khan = 2600

Points By Discipline

Runs - Shubman Gill = 1911
Batting Bonus - Shubman Gill = 360
Strike Rate - *Jos Buttler = 580

Wickets - Rashid Khan = 1280
Wicket Bonus - *Simon Harmer = 210
Economy - *Simon Harmer = 510

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 430
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 50

Weekly List In Full

Simon Harmer 401
Sam Curran 234
Jos Buttler 153

Rishabh Pant dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Marco Jansen dnp
Shakib Al Hasan dnp
Hardik Pandya dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Devon Conway dnp
Rashid Khan dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Pat Cummins dnp
Jonny Bairstow dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Cam Green dnp
David Warner dnp

Overall List

1 Shubman Gill 3001
2 Jos Buttler 2883
3 Simon Harmer 2691
4 Sam Curran 2688
5 Rashid Khan 2612
6 Shakib Al Hasan 2601
7 Ravindra Jadeja 2573
8 Devon Conway 2257
9 Hardik Pandya 1795
10 Suryakumar Yadav 1779
11 Babar Azam 1718
12 Marco Jansen 1562
13 Moeen Ali 1524
14 Cam Green 1476
15 Usman Khawaja 1346
16 David Warner 1253
17 Harry Brook 1249
18 Pat Cummins 716
19 Jonny Bairstow 448