2026 All Year Fantasy Competition

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Quinton De Kock – 318 – What a start to the year QDK is having. Finishes the SA20 as the highest run scorer before whacking a century in his first home T20 since his return to the fold.

2. Harry Brook – 298 – Despite the awful end to his 2025, Brook looks to be starting 2026 more positively courtesy of a scorching century in the second ODI against Sri Lanka. Moves up to 7th overall.

3. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi – 182 – Scores of 40 versus New Zealand and 52 against Zimbabwe gives Vaibhav his fourth consecutive week in the Top 5.

4. Nat Sciver-Brunt – 170 – Is the only person in the Weekly Top 5 to have played just one game…but what a game it was; bagging the first century in the WIPL.

5. Aiden Markram – 151- Went from ending the SA20 well to starting the T20I series against West Indies well. 101 runs from the two games sees him nick fifth place away from Marco Jansen who was 11 points behind him.

Overall Top 5

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 869 - Has now held the top spot for 4 weeks....but that gap is getting narrower and narrower. Just the 100 points between him and a chasing pack this week.

2. Quinton de Kock - 769 - Moved down a place last week but has now jumped up to silver medal position like a scalded cat. How far can the SA20 MVP go?

3. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 689 - While all around her moved NSB stoically maintained her third placed position for a second week. With the WIPL winding down, however, she needs points while she still can.

4. Aiden Markram - 613 - After debuting in the Top 5 in Week 2, he has been an ever present since. This week he has also claimed the spot as the third highest run scorer behind QDK and Vaibhav.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 544 - Inactive again this week and down from second to his favourite spot of fifth. Last week 5th spot De Kock was just holding off Curran; it is the same situation this week as Curran is 24 points behind the Indian spinner.

Highest Weekly Average

1. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 229.67 (Down from 259. 5)
2. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 217.25 (Down from 229)
3. Quinton de Kock = 192.25 (Up from 150.33)

Good Week for Harry Brook ; up 67.33 points to 163.33. Bad week for Nat Sciver-Brunt down 29.83 to 229.83.


Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- n/a
One Day - Harry Brook = 104.67
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 114.85

Highest Points by Format

* = New Name

Red Ball- Travis Head - 262
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 869
Short Form - * Quinton De Kock = 769

Highest Points by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 469
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 110
Strike rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 180

Wickets - *Marco Jansen = 180
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja + Sam Curran - 20
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja & *Liam Dawson = 80

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

Weekly List In Full

Quinton de Kock 318
Harry Brook 298
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 182
Nat Sciver-Brunt 170
Aiden Markram 151
Marco Jansen 140
Pathum Nissanka 136
Saim Ayub 120
Liam Dawson 120
Rachin Ravindra 100
Jos Buttler 93
Sam Curran 70
Travis Head 53
Sophie Ecclestone 0

Paul Walter dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Mehidy Hasan Miraz dnp
Michael Bracewell dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Nicholas Pooran dnp

Overall Points

1 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 869
2 Quinton de Kock 769
3 Nat Sciver-Brunt 689
4 Aiden Markram 613
5 Ravindra Jadeja 544
6 Sam Curran 520
7 Harry Brook 490
8 Marco Jansen 369
9 Jos Buttler 321
10 Travis Head 315
11 Saim Ayub 280
12 Shubman Gill 240
13 Rachin Ravindra 227
14 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 217
15 Nicholas Pooran 192
16 Pathum Nissanka 189
17 Michael Bracewell 184
18 Liam Dawson 182
19 Sophie Ecclestone 166
20 Simon Harmer 96
21 Phil Salt 63

Headlines

Still relatively tight but there is a definite top three emerging.

Weekly Scores

MIB 418
The Prof Sr. 318
GingerPele 310
Red Devil 252
Andy 151
RT 146
The Professor 136
DFM 120
Sussex 100
RDJ 0
Arthur 0

Overall Scores

1 Red Devil 1389
2 GingerPele 1058
3 The Prof Sr. 986
4 MIB 770
5 RDJ 710
6 RT 636
7 Andy 613
8 The Professor 429
9 Sussex 419
10 DFM 278
11 Arthur 247

[Durhamfootman]

off the bottom

Gerrin!

cheers Prof

[Arthur Crabtree]

But this is even worse- I'm bottom.

Was expecting Bracewell to be in the NZ T20 side. Need to drop him from my WCT20 FLXI pronto.

[The Professor]

Will be a late update tomorrow as have a mad one at work and then am solo parenting in the evening.

The upside is we will squeeze in Vaibhav's Under 19 final points.

[sussexpob]

2. Harry Brook – 298 – Despite the awful end to his 2025, Brook looks to be starting 2026 more positively courtesy of......

Courtesy of me dropping the plank you mean !!!

[Red Devil]

Will be a late update tomorrow as have a mad one at work and then am solo parenting in the evening.

The upside is we will squeeze in Vaibhav's Under 19 final points.

Vaibhav having a tilt at the player of the week award ....

[The Professor]

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

Headlines

MIB moves into the Top 3 whilst RT and DFM also move up a spot.

Weekly Scores

Red Devil 662
DFM 314
MIB 305
The Professor 180
RT 155
GingerPele 113
Andy 80
The Prof Sr. 69
Arthur 67
Sussex 60
RDJ 60

Overall Scores

Red Devil 2051
GingerPele 1171
MIB 1075
The Prof Sr. 1055
RT 791
RDJ 770
Andy 693
The Professor 609
DFM 592
Sussex 479
Arthur 314

[Red Devil]

Here's hoping the kid doesn't put his feet up now during the T20 WC

[meninblue]

Thanks Professor.

My players in action this T20 Cup

[Durhamfootman]

I hadn't noticed SRH playing, so that's good news

Presumably at some point the 14 year old will have to go back to school, or we might all be screwed

cheers Prof

[sussexpob]

IPresumably at some point the 14 year old will have to go back to school, or we might all be screwed

If he scored 400 in a school game and it makes Cricinfo, he gets the points anyway

[Durhamfootman]

given that it's cricinfo, Sambit Bal himself might follow him around all year in case he has a quick game of street cricket on his way home from double maths, so that cricinfo can publish it. They do like to get excited about a new Tendulkar in India..... and why wouldn't they? The kid has an IPL 100 to his name, I think, so he's a genuine prospect

[meninblue]

given that it's cricinfo, Sambit Bal himself might follow him around all year in case he has a quick game of street cricket on his way home from double maths, so that cricinfo can publish it. They do like to get excited about a new Tendulkar in India..... and why wouldn't they? The kid has an IPL 100 to his name, I think, so he's a genuine prospect

He has talent but certianly in India people have realized Sachin is at altogether different league. Sehwag, Rahul, VVS, Virat all failed to achieve more than Sachin although they are greats of the game themselves.

Michael Clarke, Alaistair Cook also looked like they were the ones in race but then they too found out Sachin has set an incredible benchamark. As we know he was not just a wonderful batsman but someoene with 400 wickets iirc. So now nobody talks about Vaibhav or anyone else as next Sachin. People have realized that it is not easy to make so many runs and be sucha great across all formats.

Vaibhav is the best of this age group and also at Ranji level as he has shown last year itself, but he will be facing a different opponent once he gets his international debut. Things are different there. To get past Sachin is only in Joe Root's qualities. Joe has performed at toughest level and is the only one who will make past Sachin. Vaibhav and any other name from other teams is just a hope. Even if vaibhav does what leftie Yuvi and Saurav did for india, that will be an achievement in itself. Sachin is too far a step. Nevertheless, Vaibhav has been phenomenal in whatever he has played.

[Arthur Crabtree]

If he's 14, could as easily be another Vinod Kambli as another SRT.

[The Professor]

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

Headlines

DFM has a huge Harmer based jump up 3 places to 6.

Weekly Scores

DFM 252
MIB 233
The Prof Sr. 174
RT 140
Andy 134
GingerPele 116
Red Devil 95
Arthur 91
The Professor 67
Sussex 20
RDJ 0

Overall Scores

1 Red Devil 2146
2 MIB 1308
3 GingerPele 1287
4 The Prof Sr. 1229
5 RT 931
6 DFM 844
7 Andy 827
8 RDJ 770
9 The Professor 676
10 Sussex 499
11 Arthur 405