2024 All Year Fantasy Competition

[The Professor]

Overall Top 5

1. Travis Head - 239 - Seemingly the only thing stopping Travis Head's dominance over the last section of the year is his own groin. He has now scored 579 points over the last three Tests. One more Test in him this year.

2. Babar Azam - 187 - Has seemingly been on the cusp of being out in the wilderness over the last few months but came back with a bang this week with 2 decent scores out of three games.

3. Steve Smith - 145 - Undoubtably a bad year for Smith but ends with a century and a third place score for the week. Next week is likely to be his last foray on these Lists.

4. Ravindra Jadeja - 117 - Another one of the weeks where he surprised with the bat rather than with his normal bowling prowess. Only 17% of his points came from bowling this week.

5. Daryl Mitchell - 114 - Bags his 4th 3 figure score in his last 5 active weeks. Even those 617 points haven't seem him get any higher than 18th place.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - Inactive this week and the lad is now down to 167. Tight.

2. James Vince - 4514 - Such is the slow burn of the BBL, that Vince has only played a solitary game and eaten only 60 points into the gap on 1st.

3. Travis Head - 4125 - Is averaging 193 points per Test and is 389 points adrift of second place.....is going to fall just outside the Top 2 for the year. The bronze position is certainly his though as he is 556 points above 4th.

4. Phil Salt - 3569 - Inactive this week but holds onto 4th by just 79 points.

5. Babar Azam - 3490 - Reclaims the fifth place position he lose a month ago thanks to the ongoing inactivity of Sam Curran who has held that position for the last three weeks.

Other Mover

In a low scoring week, Rachin Ravindra's 62 was enough to see him finish 6th and also saw him overtake Moeen into 11th.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.16 (Down from 129.67)

Travis Head's weekly top score sees his average improve by 3.56; he now averages 125 points a week. Labuschagne moves down the most, down 3.9 to 118.36.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Ravindra Jadeja - 2355
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 470
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List In Full

Travis Head 239
Babar Azam 187
Steve Smith 145
Ravindra Jadeja 117
Daryl Mitchell 114
Rachin Ravindra 62
James Vince 60
Mitchell Marsh 47
Virat Kohli 43
Glenn Maxwell 35
Usman Khawaja 29
Harry Brook 21
Marnus Labuschagne 13
Shubman Gill 11
Yashasvi Jaiswal 8

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Phil Salt dnp

Overall list In Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4514
Travis Head 4125
Phil Salt 3569
Babar Azam 3490
Sam Curran 3460
Harry Brook 3389
Marnus Labuschagne 3314
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3269
Ravindra Jadeja 3229
Rachin Ravindra 2953
Moeen Ali 2893
Simon Harmer 2808
Jos Buttler 2801
Shubman Gill 2511
Glenn Maxwell 2459
Virat Kohli 2315
Daryl Mitchell 2232
Mitchell Marsh 1893
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1717
Usman Khawaja 1051

Headlines

A good week in the Red household as pater goes up 2 places and Junior goes up a single position.

Still lots to play for everyone except the very top and the very bottom.

Weekly Scores

DD 239
Red Devil 222
Arthur 145
RDJ 117
GingerPele 114
The Professor 107
Sussex 83
RT 46
The Prof Sr. 29
MIB 19
DFM 13

Overall Scores

DD 7585
The Professor 6407
Sussex 6355
RDJ 6125
DFM 6124
Red Devil 5916
MIB 5777
The Prof Sr. 5734
Arthur 5286
RT 5119
GingerPele 4044

[Durhamfootman]

just the one week for DD to wait for his crown

thanks Prof

[The Professor]

And I think that knock makes James Vince the best Cricketer of the Year.....not to boast but that's two years in a row that I've picked the COTY.

Just need to figure out a good partner for them too.

[Durhamfootman]

And I think that knock makes James Vince the best Cricketer of the Year.

looks as though he did it by about 4 points

[The Professor]

Had a game on Sunday too

Am also slightly mindful of the fact Athapaththu washed up in the Super Smash over in New Zealand last year.

No news of such this year but coverage of that is patchy at very best

[Durhamfootman]

ah yes.... 13 pts

It's still less than a run out at the end of a year long comp

Chamari doesn't appear in any of the cr@pinfo squad lists for the super smash

[The Professor]

She didn't last year.....and then just showed up

[Durhamfootman]

James Vince will surely be checking on the women's super smash just in case

[The Professor]

Was going to do a regular Friday blog today but realised it would only include Vince, Hardie and Azam's ODI.

Might as well wait for the final reckoning on NYE where we have Aaron Hardie and Moeen Ali playing in two T20 games in Australia and Bangladesh neither of whom are going to overly bother the top ten but Moeen's points might dictate who out of RDJ and DFM finish third.

[The Professor]

Just waiting on Aaron Hardie now

[Arthur Crabtree]

Don't forget Steve Smith...

[The Professor]

Don't forget Steve Smith...

That mob are all done

[sussexpob]

Considering I joined last picking from the dregs of what was left, I am quite happy with being an innings away from 2nd place.

[meninblue]

With all the stupidity of Indian selectors and thinktank , Yashasvi still managed to score good points.

I doubt the selectors and thinktank will get smarter this year as well. But hoping that he will score well again inspite of all the rubbish things yet again.

[The Professor]

Just waiting on Aaron Hardie now

Well that was definitely worth waiting for