2021 All Year Fantasy Competition

[The Professor]

As we close out the first third of the year I thought I'd post a more complete amount of data

Most points in Long Form cricket

1. Joe Root - 1759
2. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1438
3. Marnus Labuschagne - 1160
4. Peter Handscomb - 527
5. Ben Stokes - 508
6. Steve Smith - 473
7. Quinton De Kock - 364
8. Moeen Ali - 349
9. Jasprit Bumrah - 325
10. Kane Williamson - 318

Most points in 50 over cricket

1. Nicholas Pooran - 431
2. Peter Handscomb - 429
3. Babar Azam - 338
4. Ben Stokes - 325
5. Steve Smith - 303
6. David Warner - 280
7. Marnus Labuschagne - 255
8. Virat Kohli - 229
9. Quinton De Kock - 190
10. Moeen Ali - 159

Most points in T20/10

1. Glenn Maxwell - 1197
2. Babar Azam - 990
3. Nicholas Pooran - 667
4. Virat Kohli - 644
5. Dawid Malan - 629
6. Marnus Labuschagne - 566
7. Moeen Ali - 383
8. Kane Williamson - 351
9. Peter Siddle - 280
10. Peter Handscomb - 267

Full list of average points per active week

1. Ravichandran Ashwin - 212.14
2. Joe Root - 195.44
3. Simon Harmer - 181
4. Marnus Labuschagne- 180.09
5. Moeen Ali - 178.2
6. Steve Smith - 171.6
7. Babar Azam - 165.56
8. Glenn Maxwell - 119.7
9. Ben Stokes - 174.44
10. Peter Siddle - 114.5
11. Peter Handscomb - 111.18
12. Virat Kohli - 102.27
13. Nicholas Pooran- 99.82
14. Kane Williamson - 95.57
15. David Warner - 92.38
16. Dawid Malan- 91.88
17. Quinton De Kock - 80.13
18. Jasprit Bumrah - 74.83

Most runs

1. Marnus Labuschagne- 1141
2. Joe Root - 1019
3. Babar Azam - 910
4. Peter Handscomb - 803
5. Virat Kohli - 675
6. Steve Smith - 578
7. Nicholas Pooran - 568
8. Glenn Maxwell - 517
9. David Warner - 509
10. Kane Williamson- 449
11. Dawid Malan - 435

Most Batting Bonus points

1. Marnus Labuschagne- 200
2. Joe Root - 190
3. Babar Azam- 180
4. Virat Kohli - 160
5. Peter Handscomb - 120
= Steve Smith - 120
7. Kane Williamson - 110
8. Glenn Maxwell- 100
9. Dawid Malan- 90
10. Ben Stokes - 80

Most points for Strike Rate

1. Nicholas Pooran - 260
2. Babar Azam- 250
3. Glenn Maxwell- 230
4. Moeen Ali - 180
5. Virat Kohli - 170
6. Peter Handscomb- 160
7. Dawid Malan- 140
8. Marnus Labuschagne- 120
9. Ben Stokes- 100
10. David Warner - 90
11. Quinton De Kock- 70

Most points for wickets

1. Ravichandran Ashwin - 700
2. Peter Siddle - 380
3. Simon Harmer - 300
4. Moeen Ali - 260
5. Ben Stokes - 240
6. Marnus Labuschagne- 220
= Jasprit Bumrah - 220
8. Glenn Maxwell- 180
9. Joe Root - 140
10. Kane Williamson - 20

Most wicket bonus points

1. Ravichandran Ashwin - 170
2. Simon Harmer - 80
3. Peter Siddle - 60
= Moeen Ali - 60
5. Ben Stokes - 40
=Marnus Labuschagne- 40
6. Joe Root - 30
7. Jasprit Bumrah - 20

Most points for economy

1. Ravichandran Ashwin- 320
2. Joe Root - 230
3. Peter Siddle - 200
4. Jasprit Bumrah - 170
5. Moeen Ali- 120
6. Ben Stokes - 110
= Marnus Labuschagne- 110
7. Simon Harmer- 90
8. Glenn Maxwell- 70
9. Kane Williamson- 10
= Dawid Malan - 10

Most points for fielding

1. Quinton De Kock - 270
2. Nicholas Pooran - 200
3. Marnus Labuschagne- 150
= Babar Azam - 150
5. Peter Handscomb- 130
6. Joe Root - 120
= Glenn Maxwell- 120
= Virat Kohli- 120
9. Steve Smith- 90
10. David Warner - 70

Most Fielding Bonus points

1. Quinton De Kock - 60
2. Nicholas Pooran- 10
= Peter Handscomb 10
= Joe Root - 10
= Steve Smith - 10

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer - 262 - The return of the County Championship has seen a return to the dominance of Simon Harmer. This is his second week at the top of the weekly List. He moves into 16th in the overall List.

2. Quinton De Kock - 188 - After an underbaked start to the IPL, QDK got back into the swing of it with a decent knock against Chennai and an even better one against Rajasthan. Moves up a place to 15th overall.

3. Kane Williamson - 186 - A strange week for Williamson that has culminated in him finishing as captain of Hyderabad. He has been in rich form and finishes in third for the week. Has moved into 13th overall.

4. Peter Siddle - 184 - Will oft be overlooked by his South African colleague at Essex but Siddle put in a shift against Warwickshire. Managed to pick up his first strike rate points. Was this week's most significant mover; moving up three places to 12th.

5. Moeen Ali - 153 - He only played two games in the IPL this week but his 138 in the losing effort against Mumbai is the second highest scoring individual performance in this year's competition. He also holds the top place (146 v Rajasthan)

Other Mover

Despite falling outside the Top 5 highest scorers, Steve Smith's 98 points was enough to see him move into the top ten this week.

Overall Top 5

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 1992 - Despite an underwhelming return to Glamorgan, Marnus holds top spot for the fifth consecutive week.

2. Joe Root - 1859 - Not tearing up trees in the County Championship but is putting greater and greater distance between himself and the chasing pack.

3. Babar Azam - 1582 - Babar scored a grand total of 0 points in the Test against Zimbabwe but accrued 92 in the final T20. He keeps third spot.

4. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485 - Ashwin has stepped away from the IPL with himself in fourth position overall.

5. Glenn Maxwell - 1288 - The Big Show's IPL form has seen him gatecrash the Top 5. This is the reverse to last year where his dire performances saw him slide further and further down the table.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 1859
50 Over - Nicholas Pooran - 431
T20 - Glenn Maxwell - 1294

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 201.25 (Up from 181)
2. Joe Root - 185.9 (Down from 195.44)
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 185.63 (Down from 212.14)

Ashwin's second successive week of scoring 0 points has seen him tumble down 26.51 points per average. He just about stays in the top 3. Simon Harmer's improvement of 20.25 sees him take top spot. He is likely to do some real damage this Summer.

Highest Points by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1152
Batting Bonus - Marnus Labuschagne & *Babar Azam - 200
Strike Rate - *Babar Azam - 280

Wickets - Ravichandran Ashwin - 700
Wicket Bonus - Ravichandran Ashwin - 170
Economy - Ravichandran Ashwin - 300

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 290
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 60

Longest time inactive

Dawid Malan - 4 Weeks.

Week

Simon Harmer - 262
Quinton De Kock - 188
Kane Williamson - 186
Peter Siddle- 184
Moeen Ali - 153
David Warner - 103
Joe Root - 100
Steve Smith- 98
Glenn Maxwell - 97
Babar Azam - 92
Jasprit Bumrah- 90
Virat Kohli- 85
Nicholas Pooran- 29
Marnus Labuschagne- 11
Ravichandran Ashwin- 0
Peter Handscomb- 0

Dawid Malan- dnp
Ben Stokes - dnp

Total

Marnus Labuschagne- 1992
Joe Root - 1859
Babar Azam - 1582
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Peter Handscomb- 1223
Virat Kohli- 1210
Nicholas Pooran - 1127
Ben Stokes - 1057
Steve Smith - 956
Moeen Ali - 1044
Peter Siddle - 871
Kane Williamson - 855
David Warner - 842
Quinton de Kock - 829
Simon Harmer - 805
Dawid Malan - 735
Jasprit Bumrah - 539

Headlines

Arthur's surge into the Top 3 is the only change on the table.

Week

DFM - 446
Arthur - 286
MIB - 273
RT - 193
RD - 189
Alviro - 153
RDJ - 109
DD - 29
The Professor- 0

Total

RDJ- 2948
RD - 2876
Arthur - 2704
The Professor- 2542
DD - 2350
MIB - 2029
Alviro - 1779
DFM - 1670
RDT - 1381

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 3 (Not enough cricket played for a top five)

1. Simon Harmer - 257 - Despite getting slightly fewer points week on week, Harmer still manages to find himself on top spot. He has scored 61% of the points of the five players we having playing in the County Championship.

2. Dawid Malan - 56 - In an IPL where the average points scored per game was 44.65, Malan debuted with an above average showing before the cancellation of the tournament. Poor luck.

3. Steve Smith - 54 - 'Ends' the tournament with his second total of 54 for a match. Ended up averaging 39 points a game - similar to his 35.38 at the same stage of last season.

Overall Top 5

Nobody featured in a game in our top 5 last week so the order is still:

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 1992
2. Joe Root - 1859
3. Babar Azam - 1582
4. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
5. Glenn Maxwell - 1288

Peter Handscomb lies in sixth, 48 points behind Maxwell. Harmer who is averaging 241.5 points per County Championship game is 226 points behind gate-crashing the Top 5.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 1859
50 Over - Nicholas Pooran - 431
T20 - Glenn Maxwell - 1294

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 212.4 (Up from 201.25)
2. Joe Root - 185.9
3. Ravichandran Ashwin - 185.63

Simon Harmer is the only player to have improved on their average this week. Steve Smith drops the most with his 144.29 being 15.04 points lower than last week.

Highest Points by Discipline


Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1152
Batting Bonus - Marnus Labuschagne & Babar Azam - 200
Strike Rate - Glenn Maxwell - 280

Wickets - Ravichandran Ashwin - 700
Wicket Bonus - Ravichandran Ashwin - 170
Economy - Ravichandran Ashwin - 300

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 290
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 60

Longest time inactive

Ben Stokes (3 Weeks)

Week

Simon Harmer - 257
Dawid Malan - 56
Steve Smith - 54
Peter Siddle - 51
Kane Williamson - 30
Peter Handscomb- 17

Moeen Ali - dnp
Ravichandran Ashwin - dnp
Babar Azam- dnp
Jasprit Bumrah - dnp
Quinton De Kock- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Marnus Labuschagne - dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Nicholas Pooran- dnp
Joe Root - dnp
Ben Stokes - dnp
David Warner - dnp

Total

Marnus Labuschagne- 1992
Joe Root - 1859
Babar Azam - 1582
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Peter Handscomb- 1240
Virat Kohli- 1210
Nicholas Pooran - 1127
Simon Harmer - 1062
Ben Stokes - 1057
Steve Smith - 1010
Moeen Ali - 1044
Peter Siddle - 922
Kane Williamson - 885
David Warner - 842
Quinton de Kock - 829
Dawid Malan - 791
Jasprit Bumrah - 539

Headlines

DFM moves up again.

Week

DFM - 308
Alviro - 56
RDJ - 54
Arthur - 30
DD - 17
MIB - 0
RD - 0
RT - 0
The Professor- 0

Total

RDJ- 3004
RD - 2876
Arthur - 2734
The Professor- 2542
DD - 2367
MIB - 2029
DFM - 1978
Alviro - 1835
RDT - 1381

[Durhamfootman]

cheers Prof

good to be moving, but the bananaman has been a bit underwhelming up to now. Might have something to do with Essex seemingly unable to put 100 runs on the board

still... onwards and upwards

[Durhamfootman]

small potatoes for me next week

[Durhamfootman]

No bananaman for Essex

[Arthur Crabtree]

Yes we have no bananaman.

[Durhamfootman]

we have no bananaman today

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 3 - again not enough cricket for a Top 5

1. Peter Handscomb - 98 - By some distance the least deserving Cricketer of the Week since we started this endeavour. Is only there because Middlesex lost a game in 3 days and has 2 games to his total. 98 points is the lowest winning total since Azam's 120 from March 20

2. Simon Harmer - 78 - A rare mortal week for Harmer against Notts. He still manages to move up one place on the overall List to 8th - overtaking Pooran. He might get one or two points next week.

3. Peter Siddle - 56 - The Robin to Harmer's Batman also had a quiet match v Notts...however in this low scoring week he manages to get into 3rd spot.

Overall Top 5

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 2024 - Holds down top spot despite dire form in the County Championship. He is averaging 21.5 points per game but still holds a 114 point lead on Root.

2. Joe Root - 1910 - You get the feeling that Root is zoning in on the first place spot that he lost 7 weeks ago. His average in the County Championship is 103 points a week so it is a possibility.

3. Babar Azam - 1594 - Could have used the ZIM v PAK to force his agenda but scored just 12 points across two Test matches. He now lags second place by 316 points.

4. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485 - Another inactive week from Ashwin however he has only dropped one place over the last two months. Has an 147 point lead on fifth spot.

5. Peter Handscomb - 1338 - Weight of games sees Handscomb regain his fifth places spot after a fortnight out of the top 5.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 1910
50 Over - Nicholas Pooran - 431
T20 - Glenn Maxwell - 1294

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 190 (Down from 212.4)
2. Ravichandran Ashwin - 185.63
3. Moeen Ali - 174

A lot of downward movement this week. Harmer's is the most significant as his average drops 22.4 points. Despite completing 2 games in a week Handscomb's average only goes up by 0.19.

Highest Points by Discipline


Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1164
Batting Bonus - Marnus Labuschagne & Babar Azam - 200
Strike Rate - Glenn Maxwell - 280

Wickets - Ravichandran Ashwin - 700
Wicket Bonus - Ravichandran Ashwin - 170
Economy - Ravichandran Ashwin - 300

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 290
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 60

Longest time inactive

Ben Stokes (4 Weeks)

Week

Peter Handscomb- 98
Simon Harmer - 78
Peter Siddle - 56
Joe Root - 51
Marnus Labuschagne- 32
Babar Azam- 12

Moeen Ali - dnp
Ravichandran Ashwin- dnp
Jasprit Bumrah - dnp
Quinton De Kock- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Dawid Malan- dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Nicholas Pooran- dnp
Steve Smith- dnp
Ben Stokes- dnp
David Warner - dnp

Total

Marnus Labuschagne- 2024
Joe Root - 1910
Babar Azam - 1594
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
Peter Handscomb- 1338
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Virat Kohli- 1210
Simon Harmer - 1140
Nicholas Pooran - 1127
Ben Stokes - 1057
Steve Smith - 1010
Moeen Ali - 1044
Peter Siddle - 978
Kane Williamson - 885
David Warner - 842
Quinton de Kock - 829
Dawid Malan - 791
Jasprit Bumrah - 539

Headlines

DFM continues his march up the table.

Week

DFM - 134
DD - 98
Arthur - 51
RDJ - 32
RD - 12
Alviro- 0
MIB - 0
The Professor- 0
RDT - 0

Total

RDJ- 3034
RD - 2888
Arthur - 2785
The Professor- 2542
DD - 2465
DFM - 2112
MIB - 2029
Alviro - 1835
RDT - 1381

[Durhamfootman]

I do like a march up the table

down to one for next week, but that one player is doing okay, tbh

[Durhamfootman]

cheers Prof

[Arthur Crabtree]

Thanks Prof. Looks like KW in lockdown again.

[Durhamfootman]

Bananaman is back in business and going well

[The Professor]

Only the three players from our List featured this week so not so much a Top 3 as a.....three.

1. Simon Harmer - 370 - No surprises here. 12 wickets in a match tends to help you get top spot for the week. Shockingly isn't even in his top 3 highest scores he's registered.

2. Joe Root - 129 - Back to good form as he gets to within a Cat's whisker of a century against Glamorgan.

3. Marnus Labuschagne - 40 - I have good news and bad news for Marnus. He scored his highest points total of the season against Yorkshire.....but that total was just 40. Is averaging 27.67 a match - the lowest of any of our County Championship players.

Overall Top 5

1. Marnus Labuschagne - 2064 - Marnus' poor form in the County Championship has seen his lead on second place getting narrower and narrower. Just 25 in it now.

2. Joe Root - 2029 - Crosses the two thousand point mark with his nearest challenger only recently passing th 1500 mark. A good series against New Zealand will put him out of sight.

3. Babar Azam - 1594 - An inactive week but Babar holds 3rd spot for the fifth week.

4. Simon Harmer - 1510 - Five weeks ago he was in bottom place. His rise up the table has gone 18 to 17th to 16th to 9th to 8th and now to 4th place. The highest scoring cricketer from 2018 is averaging 215.71 points a week.

5. Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485 - After 5 weeks of 0 points, Ashwin is 147 points away from losing a top 5 place he has had since February.

Highest Players by Format

Long Form - Joe Root - 2039
50 Over - Nicholas Pooran - 431
T20 - Glenn Maxwell - 1294

Top 3 Averages

1. Simon Harmer - 215.71 (Up from 190)
2. Ravichandran Ashwin - 185.63
3. Moeen Ali - 174

Harmer's averages goes north of 200 again as he adds 25.71 points to his average. Marnus Labuschagne drops 8.26 points a week to 147.43.

Highest Points by Discipline
*= New Name


Runs - Marnus Labuschagne = 1164
Batting Bonus - *Joe Root = 210
Strike Rate - Glenn Maxwell - 280

Wickets - *Simon Harmer= 720
Wicket Bonus - Ravichandran Ashwin and *Simon Harmer - 170
Economy - Ravichandran Ashwin - 320

Fielding – Quinton De Kock – 290
Fielding Bonus - Quinton De Kock - 60

Longest Inactive Player

Ben Stokes (5 weeks)

Week

Simon Harmer - 370
Joe Root - 129
Marnus Labuschagne- 40

Moeen Ali - dnp
Ravichandran Ashwin- dnp
Babar Azam- dnp
Jasprit Bumrah - dnp
Quinton De Kock- dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Virat Kohli- dnp
Dawid Malan - 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- 2064
Joe Root - 2039
Babar Azam - 1594
Simon Harmer - 1510
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1485
Peter Handscomb- 1338
Glenn Maxwell - 1288
Virat Kohli- 1210

Nicholas Pooran - 1127
Ben Stokes - 1057
Steve Smith - 1010
Moeen Ali - 1044
Peter Siddle - 978
Kane Williamson - 885
David Warner - 842
Quinton de Kock - 829
Dawid Malan - 791
Jasprit Bumrah - 539

Headlines

Despite (or because of) the lack of cricket this week, we have had a lot of movement.

Arthur is up one to second spot whilst DFM continues his charge by moving up a spot yet again.

Week

DFM - 370
Arthur - 129
RDJ - 40
Alviro - 0
DD - 0
MIB - 0
The Professor - 0
RD - 0
RDT - 0


Total

RDJ- 3074
Arthur - 2914
RD - 2888
The Professor- 2542
DFM - 2482
DD - 2465
MIB - 2029
Alviro - 1835
RDT - 1381

[Durhamfootman]

top of the pile for the last 5 weeks

cheers Prof