Prithvi Shaw (Northamptonshire)

8 matches | 291 runs @ 42.87, SR 118; HS: 97, 50s: 3

An injury restricted Shaw’s 2023 stint for Northamptonshire to four matches, but not before he had amassed 429 runs with a 244 and another hundred. In 2024, he seemed to have picked up from where he had left off last summer, with 40 in 34 balls against Hampshire, 76 in 58 against Middlesex, 97 in 71 against Durham, and 72 in 59 against Worcestershire in consecutive innings. His next three innings have fetched him only 49, but the overall season record makes impressive reading: no one with 200 runs has scored as quick this season.

Yuzvendra Chahal (Northamptonshire)

1 match | 5 wickets @ 2.80, econ. 1.40; BBI: 5-14, 5WIS: 1

Just ahead of their last league match of 2024, Northamptonshire signed up Chahal for that game as well as their remaining five matches in the County Championship. In that match, Chahal returned ridiculous figures of 10-5-14-5 (Shaw held one of the catches) to bowl out his former team Kent for 82, their lowest List A total against Northants.

Venkatesh Iyer (Lancashire)

5 matches | 68 runs @ 13.60, SR 80; HS: 25 | 3 wickets @ 36.67, econ. 6.11; BBI: 2-38

After four unspectacular outings, Iyer finished the fifth with a bizarre over. Coming out at 50-3, he made 25 to help stage a fightback of sorts, and Lancashire eventually made 237. Later, when Worcestershire needed 16 in two overs with two wickets in hand, Iyer conceded four leg-byes, four byes, a wide, a single, another wide, and another single off his first four legitimate balls. Worcestershire now needed four in eight balls, but Iyer dismissed Tom Hinley and Harry Darley with the last two balls to seal the match.

Ajinkya Rahane (Leicestershire)

8 matches | 305 runs @ 43.57, SR 93; HS: 71, 50s: 3

Rahane’s 71 against Nottinghamshire had taken him a mere 60 balls. Against Sussex, his 68 had taken him 57. And on August 14, his team were reduced to 19-3 in pursuit of 196 in 36 overs against Gloucestershire when Peter Handscomb joined him. They lifted Leicestershire with a 120-run stand, and by the time Rahane fell for a 76-ball 62, he had done enough: they completed the chase inside 34 overs.

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