2024 All Year Fantasy Competition

[Durhamfootman]

no 10 points for Harmer's catch against Joburg? As I found out last year, 10 points can make all the difference

cheers Prof

[The Professor]

Yeah harmer got 10

Forgot the full Lists

Weekly Scores

Steve Smith 296
Ravindra Jadeja 279
Babar Azam 199
Yashasvi Jaiswal 135
Sam Curran 132
Usman Khawaja 125
Jos Buttler 91
James Vince 59
Mitchell Marsh 51
Marnus Labuschagne 48
Travis Head 44
Phil Salt 25
Shubman Gill 23
Simon Harmer 10
Aaron Hardie 10
Moeen Ali 0

Overall Scores

1 Babar Azam 759
2 Chamari Athapaththu 629
3 Jos Buttler 586
4 James Vince 524
5 Steve Smith 411
6 Sam Curran 404
7 Daryl Mitchell 392
8 Glenn Maxwell 385
9 Aaron Hardie 382
10 Yashasvi Jaiswal 375
11 Marnus Labuschagne 346
12 Travis Head 303
13 Ravindra Jadeja 279
14 Moeen Ali 263
15 Usman Khawaja 240
16 Phil Salt 239
17 Simon Harmer 180
18 Mitchell Marsh 180
19 Virat Kohli 147
20 Shubman Gill 132
21 Rachin Ravindra 46

[Red Devil]

Thanks Prof, it's looking interesting!

A quick query on the fielding, it looks like we are saying 60 is the most fielding points for anyone, but Babar took 3 catches in the last match alone - looking at the scorecards from his profile on Cricinfo Babar has 7 catches and a solo run out in matches this year so I think that's 90 points before the fielding bonuses

[Durhamfootman]

Yeah harmer got 10

ah, I thought Labu had 58 points, but I've just spotted that crapinfo split the run out in the last test between Labu and Head, whereas the BBC gave it to Labu alone

[The Professor]

Apologies....it is 100 points that Buttler and Smith have for Fielding.

[sussexpob]

I guess I gave Harry Brook the kiss of death. Played in every format last year, I picked him... disappeared from the team.

Although my boy Rachin is doing some heavy lifting vs South Africa C team ...

[The Professor]

It has been one of the highest scoring weeks on record. All of the Top Five point scorers of this week have scores of 200+.

Top 5 for the Week

1. Rachin Ravindra - 412 - The Kiwi started the week in last place on the List and finishes it in 6th. This is thanks to the 18th largest score since we started this game. A hugely impressive debut Cricketer of the Week performance.

2. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 276 - Not many weeks you score a double century in a Test and don't end up in top spot but Jaiswal has certainly caught the eye in his first forays in the Indian Test side.

3. James Vince - 231 - Vince is making an absolute killing in the UAE. 231 points from three T20s is impressive form whatever competition you are playing in.

4. Shubman Gill - 218 - Doubled his overall score in one week as Gill shook off his malaise with a century against England. Moves up from 20th to 14th on the Overall list.

5. Jos Buttler - 212 - Finished his SA20 with another two impressive T20 scores. Only Babar Azam has more T20 points than Buttler so far this year.

Overall Top 5

1. Babar Azam - 893 - Two identical scores of 47 at a Strike Rate above 100 but below 150 saw Azam score a moderate 134 for the week. He holds on to his first place spot for the second week.

2. Jos Buttler - 798 - Moves up a spot as he finishes his spell in South Africa. Genuinely hard to see where he plays any cricket until the IPL in late March though.

3. James Vince - 755 - Refuses to be under estimated. Moves up a place and has the second largest gap on the person below him of anyone on the List. Genuinely a force to be reckoned with in amongst our superstars.

4. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 651 - A Test double century against England is quite a classy way to move back into the Top 5. Will be inactive next week before the Third Test.

5. Chamari Athapaththu - 629 - A second inactive week and Chamari is dropping like a stone.

Other Movers

Moeen Ali finished sixth for the week but still manages to move up two places to 12th.

Top 3 Average Points per Active Week

1. Jos Buttler - 199.5 (Up from 195.33)
2. Babar Azam - 178.6 (Down from 189.75)
3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 162.75 (Up from 125)

Two very differing fates for our two Kiwis. Daryl Mitchell moves down 47 points on his average - and now has 149. Ravindra's mahoosive score sees his average swell from 23 points a week to 152.67. Having started the week with the highest and lowest averages they are now 6th and 7th.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = * Yashavi Jaiswal = 509
One Day = Steve Smith = 130
Short Form = Babar Azam = 824

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Babar Azam = 513
Batting Bonus -Babar Azam = 100
Strike Rate - Babar Azam & *Jos Buttler = 190

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu - 180
Wicket Bonus - Chamari Athapaththu & Simon Harmer & Ravindra Jadeja - 20
Economy - Rachin Ravindra = 60

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 130
Fielding Bonus - Yashasvi Jaiswal & James Vince & Glenn Maxwell & Jos Buttler & Steve Smith & *Babar Azam & *Phil Salt & *Shubman Gill = 10

Full Weekly List

Rachin Ravindra 412
Yashasvi Jaiswal 276
James Vince 231
Shubman Gill 218
Jos Buttler 212
Moeen Ali 146
Babar Azam 134
Daryl Mitchell 55
Aaron Hardie 45
Simon Harmer 40
Phil Salt 37
Marnus Labuschagne 36
Sam Curran 33
Glenn Maxwell 30
Mitchell Marsh 26
Steve Smith 11

Harry Brook dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Travis Head dnp

Overall list

Player Points
1 Babar Azam 893
2 Jos Buttler 798
3 James Vince 755
4 Yashasvi Jaiswal 651
5 Chamari Athapaththu 629
6 Rachin Ravindra 458
7 Daryl Mitchell 447
8 Sam Curran 437
9 Aaron Hardie 430
10 Steve Smith 422
11 Glenn Maxwell 415
12 Moeen Ali 409
13 Marnus Labuschagne 382
14 Shubman Gill 350
15 Travis Head 303
16 Ravindra Jadeja 279
17 Phil Salt 276
18 Usman Khawaja 240
19 Simon Harmer 220
20 Mitchell Marsh 206
21 Virat Kohli 147

Headlines

A HUGE upheaval of points in both directions. The professor Sr started the week second and finishes it 5th but the most eye-catching movement is MIB who went from second bottom to second top.

Weekly Scores

MIB 494
Sussex 412
The Professor 257
RT 212
Red Devil 164
RDJ 146
GingerPele 103
DFM 76
Arthur 48
DD 33
The Prof Sr. 0

Overall Scores

Red Devil 1308
MIB 1001
The Professor 961
RT 945
GingerPele 877
The Prof Sr. 871
DD 740
Arthur 698
RDJ 688
DFM 602
Sussex 458

[Durhamfootman]

cheers Prof

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Moeen Ali - 253 - There's been a lot of chat about the T20 Franchise carousel this week and Moeen Ali is certain one of the horses that benefits the most from it. Straight from the SA20 to BPL 2024 and right back in the thick of the points.

2. Glenn Maxwell - 242 - Brought back echoes of his huge World Cup knock this week with a scorching 55 ball 120 in the 2nd T20 versus West Indies. His highest score of 2024 sees him move up to 6th in the Overall List...and 10 points off 4th.

3. Rachin Ravindra - 209 - Fresh off his huge score in the first Test, RR doubles up with a very different but similarly eye-catching performance in the second. This time it was with the ball that he most impressed - picking up three quarters of his points with ball in hand.

4. James Vince - 208 - Refuses to stop scoring runs. Played 3 T20 games this week and got 50s in two of them (admittedly slightly blotted his copy book with a duck in the other one). He is now straight on the plane to Karachi to continue his world tour in PSL 2024.

5. Phil Salt - 146 - The step down from a second tier T20 competition (SA20) to a fourth tier one (ILT20) sees Phil Salt score his highest score to date. The fact that is only in the mid hundreds tells a tale of it's own - however he moves up the Overall List to 14th.

Overall Top 5

1. James Vince - 963 - The top run scorer from the ILT20 league also takes control of the Overall List this week. Is ,perhaps, a surprise candidate to be our first player to tick over to a thousand points but here we are. Now onto the PSL.

2. Babar Azam - 893 - Inactive this week but Babar has made an absolute killing in the PSL in previous years. Just 70 points separates him from top spot so he could be back on the top of the tree very shortly.

3. Jos Buttler - 798 - Inactive this week and, from what I can see, for many more weeks to come. How far will Buttler fall?

4. Rachin Ravindra - 667 - Was in bottom spot a fortnight ago and in two great leaps is now up there at the top table. Can he now perform in the T20 series against Australia to really mark his card as an all format cricketer?

5. Moeen Ali - 662 - Top scores for the week and moves up 7(!!) places to make his debut in the Top 5....however it is very close with Glenn Maxwell just 5 points below him and Jaiswal another 6 points below that.

Other Movers

Two Aussies, in the form of Labuschagne & Marsh, score two similarly modest scores (94 & 86) but both move up 3 places to 17th and 10th respectively.

Top 3 Average Points per Active Week

1. Jos Buttler - 199.5
2. Babar Azam - 178.6
3. Rachin Ravindra - 166.75 (Up from 152.67)

Moeen Ali's average went from being OK (102.25) to very good (132.4) largely thanks to his one performance against Chattogram. Aaron Hardie's post-BBL malaise continues as he drops 5.1 points and is down to 66.57 a week - the third worst average of anyone.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Rachin Ravindra = 621
One Day = *Marnus Labuschagne = 152
Short Form = *James Vince = 963

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Babar Azam = 513
Batting Bonus -*James Vince = 120
Strike Rate - *James Vince = 200

Wickets - *Moeen Ali = 220
Wicket Bonus - Chamari Athapaththu & Simon Harmer & Ravindra Jadeja & *Moeen Ali & *Rachin Ravindra - 20
Economy - Rachin Ravindra = 120

Fielding - *James Vince = 140
Fielding Bonus - Yashasvi Jaiswal & James Vince & Glenn Maxwell & Jos Buttler & Steve Smith & *Babar Azam & *Phil Salt & *Shubman Gill = 10

Weekly Scores in Full

Moeen Ali 253
Glenn Maxwell 242
Rachin Ravindra 209
James Vince 208
Phil Salt 146
Sam Curran 114
Marnus Labuschagne 94
Mitchell Marsh 86
Aaron Hardie 36
Simon Harmer 30

Harry Brook dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Travis Head dnp
Yashasvi Jaiswal dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Steve Smith dnp


Overall Scores

Player Points
1 James Vince 963
2 Babar Azam 893
3 Jos Buttler 798
4 Rachin Ravindra 667
5 Moeen Ali 662
6 Glenn Maxwell 657
7 Yashasvi Jaiswal 651
8 Chamari Athapaththu 629
9 Sam Curran 551
10 Marnus Labuschagne 476
11 Aaron Hardie 466
12 Daryl Mitchell 447
13 Steve Smith 422
14 Phil Salt 422
15 Shubman Gill 350
16 Travis Head 303
17 Mitchell Marsh 292
18 Ravindra Jadeja 279
19 Simon Harmer 250
20 Usman Khawaja 240
21 Virat Kohli 147

Headlines

2 movers this week. The Professor moves up one place i to second whilst Red Junior moves up 4 places to settle in 5th - just 4 points behind the Twins.

Weekly Score

The Professor 294
RDJ 253
Red Devil 242
Sussex 209
Arthur 146
DFM 124
DD 114
GingerPele 36
MIB 0
RT 0
The Prof Sr. 0

Overall

Red Devil 1550
The Professor 1255
MIB 1001
RT 945
RDJ 941
GingerPele 913
The Prof Sr. 871
DD 854
Arthur 844
DFM 726
Sussex 667

[Durhamfootman]

cheers Prof

I'm at my customary end of the table for this time of the year

[meninblue]

Another double for Yashasvi

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 352 - Jadeja is playing by last year's playbook. Don't play very often...but when you do; dominate. And such was the case last week with a century plus 8 wickets. His eight Cricketer of the Week accolade in his three years on our List.

2. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 294 - Certainly making a very impressive start to 2024 with another quickfire double hundred. This from a player who was seen as more of a short form specialist too!

3. Babar Azam - 240 - Death, taxes and half centuries from Babar Azam in the PSL. He is 2 for 2 in this regard this week and you wouldn't bet against him getting a fistful more before the end of the tournament.

4. Mitchell Marsh - 218 - After such a fantastic year last year, Marsh has failed to impress in 2024....until this week. He added almost 100 points to his previously week high score for the year thanks to one high score and one impactful one against New Zealand. Moves up to 13th overall.

5. Travis Head - 139 - Makes his debut in the weekly Top 5 after a period away with injury. Scores of 24 at a decent lick and 45 at a phenomenal lick see him edge into recognition this week. Despite this he does move down to 17th place overall.

Overall Top 5

1. Babar Azam - 1133 - You always felt that, with the PSL on the horizon, that Babar's spell away from top spot might be limited. And so it came to pass. Only a week in silver medal position before returning back to the summit.

2. James Vince - 1026 - The step up in class from the ILT20 to the PSL has seen Vince drop his week on week points by 145, his average by 9.32 and, most importantly, drop from first to second. Plenty more cricket to play though.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 945 - His double century versus England sees Jaiswal move into his highest position thus far. The 147 points between him and 4th spot is the second most of any on the list, so he will be looking up and not down.

4. Jos Buttler - 798 - Inactive once more and is 70 points away from dropping out of the Top 5. Expect that to happen next week.

5. Rachin Ravindra - 795 - Showed that he could turn it on in all three formats of the game with a decent score in the solitary T20 he played against Australia. Being rested for the second game sees the young Kiwi drop to 5th spot this week.

Other Movers

Gill's performance in the third Test against England felt more impactful than the 121 points he scored for it - it did, however, see him move up a spot to 14th.

Top 3 Average Points per Active Week

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 210.33 (Up from 139.5)
2. Jos Buttler - 199.5
3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 189 (Up from 162.75)


Just the 70 point boost to Jaiswal's average this week as he swells to 210.33. He spent a long period of 2023 with a plus 200 average before finishing with a not unimpressive 144.74. Smith's average decreases the most; down to 88.6.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Ravindra Jadeja - 631
One Day = Marnus Labuschagne = 152
Short Form = *Babar Azam - 1064

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Babar Azam = 653
Batting Bonus -*babar Azam - 140
Strike Rate - *Babar Azam - 240

Wickets - *Ravindra Jadeja - 240
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja - 50
Economy - Rachin Ravindra = 120

Fielding - James Vince = 140
Fielding Bonus - Yashasvi Jaiswal & James Vince & Glenn Maxwell & Jos Buttler & Steve Smith & Babar Azam & Phil Salt & Shubman Gill = 10

Weekly List in Full

Ravindra Jadeja 352
Yashasvi Jaiswal 294
Babar Azam 240
Mitchell Marsh 218
Travis Head 139
Rachin Ravindra 128
Shubman Gill 121
Marnus Labuschagne 83
Glenn Maxwell 71
James Vince 63
Aaron Hardie 55
Moeen Ali 49
Steve Smith 21

Harry Brook dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Simon Harmer dnp

Overall list in Full

Babar Azam 1133
James Vince 1026
Yashasvi Jaiswal 945
Jos Buttler 798
Rachin Ravindra 795
Glenn Maxwell 728
Moeen Ali 711
Ravindra Jadeja 631
Chamari Athapaththu 629
Marnus Labuschagne 559
Sam Curran 551
Aaron Hardie 521
Mitchell Marsh 510
Shubman Gill 471
Daryl Mitchell 447
Phil Salt 443
Travis Head 442
Steve Smith 422
Simon Harmer 250
Usman Khawaja 240
Virat Kohli 147

Headlines

Very tight pack between 4th and 8th. This is exemplified by DD only scoring 139 but still moving up 3 places.

RT does the reverse trip as he moves down from 4th to 7th thanks to a duck.

Weekly Scores

MIB 415
RDJ 401
Red Devil 311
The Professor 281
DD 139
Sussex 128
DFM 83
GingerPele 55
Arthur 21
RT 0
The Prof Sr. 0

Overall

Red Devil 1861
The Professor 1536
MIB 1416
RDJ 1342
DD 993
GingerPele 968
RT 945
The Prof Sr. 871
Arthur 865
DFM 809
Sussex 795

[Arthur Crabtree]

Cheers Prof. Nice work.

[Durhamfootman]

yes

cheers Prof

[The Professor]

This week marks the leanest full week of the year with only 980 points scored by 9 cricketers. Accordingly only a Weekly Top 3 this week.

Weekly Round-Up

1. Babar Azam - 320 - The master of the half century did not score one this week but did score 111 and 48 so I guess it averages out. His first Cricketer of the Week of the year....he got 4 last year and has the 2nd most of anyone over the 6 years we've played this game.

2. Ravindra Jadeja - 206 - Quiet with the bat this time out but made up for it with 5 wickets in the 4th Test against England. Is really easing himself into an untouchable position in terms of his bowling points.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 140 - 'Just' 110 runs for Jaiswal in the 4th Test for India, but finds himself near the top of the tree once more.

Overall Top 5

1. Babar Azam - 1453 - Was already top before he won Cricketer of the Week this week. The 362 points between him and second place is the largest gap on the List. Could be hard to displace during the PSL.

2. James Vince - 1091 - Missed a game thanks to a virus that spread through the Karachi camp. His 65 points from 2 games sees him just about hold off the charge of the Indian test contingent chasing him for second place.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 1085 - Retains third place for a second successive week but has narrowed the gap to just 8 points. There is also a rather chunky 248 points between him and fourth so will be looking up rather than down.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 837 - Doing exactly what he did last year and moving up the List in fits and starts. Once he got in the Top 5 last year he was very difficult to displace. Skips his favoured fifth place and bursts straight into 4th.

5. Jos Buttler - 798 - Another week of inactivity and hands on to the Top 5 by a thread. Rachin Ravindra is just 3 points adrift and Maxwell a further 10 points away.

Other Movers

Two players scored outside the Top 3 but still moved up. Gill got the only other score of three figures and jumped from 14th to 10th whilst Travis Head's 53 was enough to move him up two places to 15th.

Ones To Watch

Rachin Ravindra is in Test action this week and has just lost his Top 5 spot. He is 3 off 5th, 42 off 4th and, slightly more ambitiously, 290 off third.

Top 3 Average Points per Active Week

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 209.25 (Down from 210.33)
2. Babar Azam - 207.57 (Up from 188.83)
3. Jos Buttler - 199.5

For the second successive week, Steve Smith's average decreases the most. A drop of 14.1 this week means he has leaked 29 points off his average over the last fortnight. Babar Azam's highest scoring week thus far sees his average improve to over 200 per week.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Yashasvi Jaiswal = 943
One Day = Marnus Labuschagne = 152
Short Form = Babar Azam - 1384

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - Babar Azam = 843
Batting Bonus -Babar Azam - 170
Strike Rate - Babar Azam - 310

Wickets - Ravindra Jadeja - 340
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja - 70
Economy - *Ravindra Jadeja - 310

Fielding - James Vince = 140
Fielding Bonus - Yashasvi Jaiswal & James Vince & Glenn Maxwell & Jos Buttler & Steve Smith & Babar Azam & Phil Salt & Shubman Gill = 10

Weekly Scores in Full

Babar Azam 320
Ravindra Jadeja 206
Yashasvi Jaiswal 140
Shubman Gill 110
James Vince 65
Glenn Maxwell 60
Travis Head 53
Moeen Ali 22
Steve Smith 4

Harry Brook dnp
Virat Kohli dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Phil Salt dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Babar Azam 1453
2 James Vince 1091
3 Yashasvi Jaiswal 1085
4 Ravindra Jadeja 837
5 Jos Buttler 798
6 Rachin Ravindra 795
7 Glenn Maxwell 788
8 Moeen Ali 733
9 Chamari Athapaththu 629
10 Shubman Gill 581
11 Marnus Labuschagne 559
12 Sam Curran 551
13 Aaron Hardie 521
14 Mitchell Marsh 510
15 Travis Head 495
16 Daryl Mitchell 447
17 Steve Smith 447
18 Phil Salt 443
19 Simon Harmer 250
20 Usman Khawaja 240
21 Virat Kohli 147



Headlines

Only the once change this week as MIB and The Professor change positions.

Weekly Score

Red Devil 380
MIB 250
RDJ 228
The Professor 65
DD 53
Arthur 4
Sussex 0
DFM 0
GingerPele 0
RT 0
The Prof Sr. 0

Overall Score

Red Devil 2241
MIB 1666
The Professor 1601
RDJ 1570
DD 1046
GingerPele 968
RT 945
The Prof Sr. 871
Arthur 869
DFM 809
Sussex 795