2024 All Year Fantasy Competition

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. James Vince – 214 – Ends his year in style, largely thanks to a record breaking score of 101 against the Melbourne Stars. Always dependable in a T20 competition.

2. Steve Smith – 213 – Has been rooted to the bottom of the table for most of the year but ends it with a reminder of what once was after belting 140 in the fourth Test against Australia.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal – 206 – Finished the year with two near identical scores of 82 and 84. Was the most consistent performer for India across both digs and has been rewarded accordingly.

4. Marnus Labuschagne – 182 – Put his poor form behind him for two anchoring knocks of 72 and 70 to start Australia’s innings well in the Fourth Test.

5. Ravindra Jadeja – 179 – Has failed to perform at his All Round bet of late and either oscillates between a decent bowling performance or a decent batting one. This week he did well with ball in hand, bagging 4 wickets.

Final Rankings

1. James Vince - 4728
Cricketers of the Week – 4

Most common position on list over the year – 23 weeks in 2nd place

By some distance out least glamorous winner of Cricketer of the Year but you have to admire the hard graft from Vince. From Sydney to Hampshire via Abu Dhabi, he’s played everywhere and delivered in each continent.

Key Stat – No player played as many active weeks of cricket as Vince did….and it wasn’t even particularly close. Vince’s 39 active weeks is 6 more than Travis Head in second and over double the 16 weeks Usman Khawaja managed.

2. Chamari Athapaththu – 4681
Cricketers of the Week – 7

Most common position on list over the year – 18 weeks in 1st.

Just like last year, the cricketer who spent the most weeks in 1st over the year ends up in 2nd overall. Pipped just at the very end due to an inactive month of December.

Key Stat – With 7 Cricketers of the Week, Athapaththu claims the most for the year and also the joint third COTW in a calendar year.

3. Travis Head - 4216

Cricketers of the Week – 3

Most common position on list over the year – 15 weeks in 3rd.

Has been marooned in third pace for so long, his bronze medal finish has been inevitable since the end of October. Been a revelation in all formats for Australia and Hyderabad.

Key Stat – For many a long moon it has been Babar Azam to lead the way on Batting Bonus points, however Head’s 470 is 50 more than Harry Brook in second. Azam is in 4th with Vince in 3rd.

4. Babar Azam – 3646

Cricketers of the Week – 4

Most common position on list over the year – 22 weeks in 1st.

Such has been the rhetoric with Azam this year, that you would be forgiven thinking that he should be outside the Top 10 let alone the Top 5 but here he is. Might not be on the up and up as he once was….but certainly isn’t down and out.

Key Stat – Has been a Jekyll and Hyde year for Azam, he spent 22 weeks in 1st position, the longest that anyone spent in any position on our Lists….but then fell off over the middle third….before seeking back into decent form in the South Africa series.

5. Phil Salt – 3569

Cricketers of the Week – 2

Most common position on list over the year – 9 weeks in 8th.

Purists will not admire his route into the Top 5 in his inaugural year in our Lists. Did not even get into the Top Ten until Week 20 and only made the Top Five after a spell in the Abi Dhabi T10. All points count though and here he is.

Key Stat – Before December, Salt averaged 241.18 points per calendar month. In the last month of the year he almost quadrupled that with 892 representing England and Team Abu Dhabi.

6. Marnus Labuschagne - 3496

Cricketers of the Week – 3

Most common position on list over the year – 11 weeks in 6th.

6th seems high for a player whose form has noticeably dipped in 2024…but the points don’t lie and he has moved back into his most common place for the final reckoning.

Key Stat – Marnus was emphatically third in the list of the best fielders in the competition. There were 13 more catches between him and Salt and 15 between him and first placed Vince. That being said he had 6 more catches than Brook in fourth.

7. Yashasvi Jaiswal

Cricketers of the Week – 1

Most common position on list over the year – 11 weeks in 3rd.

Was flying high in the first third of the year, disappeared a bit in the middle third and then pulled it back with some decent showings in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Key Stat – Jaiswal was one of the key batters in World Cricket this year. With 2295 there were only two batters with more runs on the board in 2024. He also had the joint second highest Batting Bonus points – tied with Harry Brook.

8. Sam Curran - 3460

Cricketers of the Week – 3

Most common position on list over the year – 10 weeks in 8th.

An interesting year for Curran. Used to be a white ball lock and a potential for Test inclusion….but now appears to be rather in the wilderness. 8th best out of 22 isn’t to be sniffed at though.

Key Stat – In a lean year for our bowling contingent, Curran finished third for most wickets. It is surprising to see him just one wicket behind Jadeja.

9. Ravindra Jadeja – 3408
Cricketers of the Week – 1
Most common position on list over the year = 8 weeks in 5th.
Spent 33 weeks in the Top 5 last year and 14 weeks there this week but fell away…mainly due to lack of Cricket played. When he played, he played well but this is his lowest position on the List to date.
Key Stat – Has been in and amongst the highest averages all year. He ends up trailing Chamari Athapaththu (161.18 per active week) and Jos Buttler (140.05) with 131.08.

10. Harry Brook – 3389
Cricketers of the Week – 4
10th seems low for a player that has been something of a revelation in 2024 – perhaps he has been happened by his break from cricket due to bereavement. Will be a big point scorer for many years to come?

Key Stat – Was just pipped as the highest Red Ball point scorer by Ravindra Jadeja in the last two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Plenty more in store next year for England’s captain in waiting.

Rest of the List.

11 Rachin Ravindra 2962
12 Moeen Ali 2893
13 Simon Harmer 2808
14 Jos Buttler 2801
15 Glenn Maxwell 2537
16 Shubman Gill 2511
17 Virat Kohli 2366
18 Daryl Mitchell 2362
19 Mitchell Marsh 1977
20 Steve Smith 1930
21 Aaron Hardie 1776
22 Usman Khawaja 1179

Full List of Average Points Per Active Week

Chamari Athapaththu 161.18
Jos Buttler 140.05
Ravindra Jadeja 131.08
Babar Azam 125.72
Travis Head 124
James Vince 121.23
Harry Brook 121.04
Marnus Labuschagne 120.55
Sam Curran 115.33
Simon Harmer 112.32
Yashasvi Jaiswal 108.59
Phil Salt 108.15
Moeen Ali 96.43
Rachin Ravindra 95.55
Shubman Gill 93
Steve Smith 91.9
Daryl Mitchell 90.85
Virat Kohli 87.63
Glenn Maxwell 84.57

Mitchell Marsh
Aaron Haride 76.04
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Usman Khawaja 69.35

Top Three Players in Each Format
Long Form
Ravindra Jadeja 2534
Harry Brook 2268
Simon Harmer 2235

One Day

Chamari Athapaththu 946
Babar Azam 658
Marnus Labuschagne 606

Shortest Form
Chamari Athapaththu 3735
James Vince 3252
Phil Salt 3220

Top Three Players in each discipline
Runs
James Vince 2768
Travis Head 2356
Yashasvi Jaiswal 2295

Batting Bonus

Travis Head 470
Yashasvi Jaiswal 420
Harry Brook 420

Strike Rate
James Vince 930
Phil Salt 860
Travis Head 820

Wickets
Chamari Athapaththu 1200
Simon Harmer 1200
Ravindra Jadeja 1140

Wicket Bonus
Ravindra Jadeja 270
Simon Harmer 240
Chamari Athapaththu 120

Economy
Simon Harmer 680
Ravindra Jadeja 660
Chamari Athapaththu 470

Fielding
James Vince 570
Phil Salt 550
Marnus Labuschagne 420

Fielding Bonus
James Vince 50
Daryl Mitchell 40
Phil Salt 30
Marnus Labuschagne 30

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DD takes it by some great margin.....all the other positions are quite close.

[u]Final Rankings

DD 7676
The Professor 6705
Sussex 6344
DFM 6306
RDJ 6304
Red Devil 6150
MIB 5983
The Prof Sr. 5859
Arthur 5286
RT 5170
GingerPele 4174

[meninblue]

Well selected Diligent and superbly conducted FL, Professor

[Red Devil]

Congratulations DD - great selection!

Awesome stuff from the Prof again all season - honestly the consistently high standard of stats and commentary is mind blowing!

Personally, I'm back in the 'must do better' camp after my firmly mid table finish - expected more from Babar and Maxi tbh

[Durhamfootman]

yes.... congrats to DD and many thanks to the Prof

[Arthur Crabtree]

Superb Prof, your detailed and entertaining updates are very much appreciated.

And well done DD, at the top of the tree.

[DiligentDefence]

Thanks for all your hard work on thsi prof and a big thank you to those who did not perform as well as expected.