Ranked! The Top 7 Players Of 2020

In fact, cricket is only just beginning to get back on its feet, the highlight of which has been some riveting Test cricket produced by India and Australia, Down Under...

- Sreelata S. Yellamrazu

2020 has been a difficult year for everyone. And, even the otherwise limelight-hogging cricketers haven’t been spared. Cricket matches had to be suspended or cancelled owing to the deadly spread of COVID-19 across the globe. In fact, cricket is only just beginning to get back on its feet, the highlight of which has been some riveting Test cricket produced by India and Australia, Down Under. With curtains coming down on 2020, we look back at the top seven performers in what was an unpredictable year in every sense.

1. BEN STOKES

England all-rounder carried on from the great run he had in 2019. He played multiple high-quality knocks and chipped in with the ball at crucial times. Even as the world around him changed, Ben Stokes remained cricket’s equivalent of constant. In 13 matches across formats, Stokes notched up 767 runs at an average of 51.13 with two hundreds and as many fifties. He smashed 120 against South Africa in the Port Elizabeth Test and 176 against West Indies at Manchester. With his medium pace, the all-rounder claimed 18 wickets at an average of 18.84. Another year to remember for Stokes, on the cricket field.

2. KANE WILLIAMSON