by The Professor » Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:19 pm
Weekly Top 5
1. Jasprit Bumrah - 328 - Bumrah started the week as our lowest scoring, least active player who also had the lowest average of any one on our List. He has subsequently top scored for the week, moved up 3 places overall and improved his average by 25 points. Not a bad week.
2. Simon Harmer - 301 - Here he is again. Harmer has scored 300+ points ten times in a week and finished as the highest point scorer in each of them. This time he will have to settle for second.
N.B. This score does not include his ongoing match vs Yorkshire.
3. Quinton De Kock - 239 - On-song QDK is one of the most valuable players in white ball cricket and the Southern Brave are reaping the benefits of this at the moment with 2 half century scores over the last week
4. Joe Root - 233 - Root is used to carrying the weight of his England team on his shoulders and was forced to do so again in the First Test. He is rewarded with a place in the Top 5.
5. Moeen Ali - 149 - A strange week for Moeen. After scoring the highest points total of The Hundred so far he is yoinked away to the Test side. Can he keep up his good run and challenge for a Top 5 position next week?
Other Mover
For the second week in a row, Dawid Malan's score is not high enough to feature in the Top 5 for the week but sees him move up the overall table. His 76 points sees him up to 9th.
Overall Top 5
For the first time in 2021 the Top 5 remains the same for the fourth week in a row.
1. Marnus Labuschagne - 3833
2. Simon Harmer - 3465
3. Joe Root - 2973
4. Babar Azam - 2656
5. Quinton De Kock - 2448
Labuschgane's lead on second place is now down to a mere 368. This is the lowest it has been for 9 weeks. With second placed Harmer averaging 192.5 points a week, we could see a new man at the summit by the end of the month.
Highest Players by Format
*= New Name
Long Form - Joe Root - 2499
50 Over - *Simon Harmer - 752
T20 - Babar Azam - 1897
Top 3 Averages
1. Simon Harmer - 192.5 (Up from 186.13)
2. Marnus Labuschagne - 191.65
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 189.4
As I have already mentioned, Bumrah's improvement of 25.09 is a huge boost. It has taken him off bottom spot and above Handscomb, Kohli, Malan, Williamson, Warner and Pooran in terms of average points per active week. Kohli's score of 0 from the First Test sees him fall by 7.07 points to 91.93 - the second lowest.
Highest Points by Discipline
* = New Name
Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 2023
Batting Bonus - Babar Azam - 370
Strike Rate - *Moeen Ali - 490
Wickets = Simon Harmer= 1540
Wicket Bonus - Simon Harmer - 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 770
Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 530
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 90
Longest Inactive
David Warner (15 weeks)
Week
Jasprit Bumrah- 328
Simon Harmer - 301
Quinton De Kock- 239
Joe Root - 233
Moeen Ali - 149
Dawid Malan - 76
Peter Handscomb- 16
Virat Kohli- 0
Ravichandran Ashwin- dnp
Babar Azam- dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Nicholas Pooran- dnp
Peter Siddle- dnp
Steve Smith- dnp
Ben Stokes- dnp
David Warner - dnp
Kane Williamson - dnp
Total
Marnus Labuschagne- 3833
Simon Harmer - 3465
Joe Root - 2973
Babar Azam - 2656
Quinton de Kock - 2448
Moeen Ali - 2229
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1894
Ben Stokes - 1765
Dawid Malan - 1747
Peter Handscomb- 1740
Nicholas Pooran - 1718
Peter Siddle - 1577
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Virat Kohli- 1287
Jasprit Bumrah - 1022
Kane Williamson - 1020
Steve Smith - 1010
David Warner - 842
Headlines
A huge amount of movement this week.
RDJ's 3rd 0 in a row sees DFM back to top spot after a month away.
RD (who has scored 3 0s in the last 5 weeks drops 2 places with Alviro and Arthur up a place. It is the first time that RD has been out of the Top 4 since the middle of March.
MIB also moves up a place.
Week
RDT - 328
DFM - 301
MIB - 239
Arthur - 233
Alviro - 225
DD - 16
RD - 0
RDJ - 0
The Professor- 0
Total
DFM - 5042
RDJ- 4843
Alviro - 3976
Arthur - 3973
RD - 3950
MIB - 3725
The Professor- 3659
DD - 3458
RDT - 1864
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