Top 5 Cricket Players who redefined consistency in 2025
In any sport, talent and skills don’t really matter if athletes or sportspersons perform erratically. Consistency in performances is the most important attribute that separates the good players from the greats.
Since cricket matches or series are held in cricket playing nations and played over three formats, the matches take place through the year. As a result, Cricket players too have ample opportunities to showcase consistent performances over a season. Consistency in cricket can be shown in batting, bowling and even fielding.
P.S. All stats have been taken from www.espncricinfo.com.
Let’s take a look at five players that redefined consistency in cricket in 2025 –
5. Mohammed Siraj (Right-arm fast bowler, India)
In the absence of Indian pace bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in some crucial matches this year, Mohammed Siraj took over the mantle of the prime bowler for India in both the Test and the ODI Format.
Siraj has been ever present for India especially in the gruelling five-day format, bowling his heart out and also leading India to a win in the fifth Test, helping India draw a tough away Test series 2-2 against England. He was the leading wicket-taker in that series with 23 wickets, having played all five Tests. He also played against the West Indies in a two-Test series at home and excelled again, taking 10 wickets in two Tests, also becoming the highest wicket-taker in the Test-format so far in 2025. Playing for the Gujarat Giants in the IPL this year, Siraj performed consistently in the T20 format, providing early breakthroughs for his team.
In 2025 so far, Mohammed Siraj has taken 37 wickets in 15 Test match innings for Team India with an average of 26.91 and a best figure of 6/70. Such has been his impact for the Indian team that they have not missed the great Jasprit Bumrah as Siraj has done all the heavy-lifting for India as their lead seamer. He has the ability to swing the ball both ways along with express pace. Additionally, he possesses incredible fitness levels that help him bowl longer spells in Test matches which is another huge advantage for the team.
Siraj has undoubtedly had a great year for Team India and on the basis of these consistent performances, he was also selected for the ODI series against Australia.
4. Smriti Mandhana (Batter, India-W)
Amidst the massive media glare and focus on the Indian Men’s team, Women’s team opener Smriti Mandhana is quietly having a sensational 2025, having broken several long-standing records. Mandhana has not only become the only Woman batter to complete 1000+ ODI runs in a calendar year but also became the fastest Women’s player to 5000 ODI runs. She has also equalled the record for most ODI centuries in a year (Tied on 5 centuries with Tazmin Brits). Mandhana is already the top-scorer in the ongoing Women’s ODI World Cup with two centuries and two fifties. The left-handed opener has taken the scoring responsibility up the order and ensured India’s qualification to the knockouts.
Mandhana has impressive stats for the 2025 season, scoring 1259 runs so far in 20 innings with an average of 62.95, a strike-rate of 111.41, 5 centuries, 5 fifties and a top-score of 135. In the T20 format, even though she has only played 5 innings this year, she has scored 221 runs at an average of 44.20 and with a superb strike-rate of 137.26.
Mandhana has surely hit a purple patch this year, scoring runs and hundreds at an unbelievable rate, breaking several records and hence she is the only Women’s player in this list.
3. Matt Henry (Right-arm fast Bowler, New Zealand)
New Zealand’s prime pace bowler Matt Henry has been one of the standout performers this season. The Kiwi fast bowler has been a major threat to all top batters this season and he was instrumental in New Zealand reaching the ICC Champions Trophy final earlier this year.
In the ODI format this year, Matt Henry has taken 24 wickets in 9 matches with an average of 15.50 and a strike-rate of 19.04 with a best figure of 5/42. He was the highest wicket-taker in the ICC Champions Trophy with 10 wickets, helping his team reach the Champions Trophy final. In the T20 format as well, Henry has 45 scalps in 29 matches with an average of 15.97 and a strike-rate of 13.06 and a best figure of 5/18.Though New Zealand hasn’t played a lot of Test Cricket in 2025, he has taken 16 wickets in 4 innings with a fantastic average of 9.12 and strike-rate of 21.93 and a best figure of 6/39. No matter whichever the format, Henry is New Zealand’s go-to bowler for getting the opposition wickets.
Whenever his team has needed wickets, Matt Henry has led from the front and gotten his team early wickets to derail the opposition. His express pace and the ability to swing the ball both ways and he has troubled the batters with his impeccable line and length specially in the white ball format. As the stats suggest, Matt Henry has been one of the most consistent bowlers in the world this season along with being highly influential for his team in all formats.
2. Joe Root (Batter, England)
Arguably one of the finest Test batters of the current generation, Joe Root is ageing like fine wine. Even in the twilight of his career, the Englishman is threatening to break records. He has just carried on his incredible form from last year to this year as well.
Root is now ranked second in career highest runs in the Test Format with a mammoth 13,543 runs in 158 test matches and 288 innings, an average of 51.29, 39 Test centuries, 66 Test fifties and a Highest Score of 262. Against India in the recently concluded Test Series, Root scored 537 runs in the series with an average of 67.12 in 9 innings. Root has so far scored a total of 571 runs this year with an average of 63.44 in 6 Tests and 10 innings. He is also the top run-getter in the ODI format so far this year with a massive 779 runs in 12 innings with a phenomenal average of 70.81 with 3 centuries and 4 fifties.
Root bats at the most difficult No. 3 spot in Tests and to score has bailed England out of trouble so many times over the years and that’s what England would be expecting from him in the iconic Ashes Test Series in Australia this year. He has been excellent in both red ball and white ball cricket this year and that’s why he is one of the players who has been a model of consistency this year – an absolute inspiration for young budding top order batters.
1.Shubman Gill (Batter, India)
The recently appointed Indian Team Captain, Shubman Gill was touted as the next batting superstar when he made his debut in Australia in the 2019 Border-Gavaskar Test Series and he is now starting to live up to the billing.
Shubman Gill has been phenomenal in 2025 as the top scorer in ODI+Test+T20 with 1596 runs in 33 innings with an average of 53.20, seven centuries, 3 fifties and a highest score of 269 (in Tests vs England). In the Test format, Gill is the leading top-scorer with a mammoth 979 runs in 15 innings with an average of 69.92 with 5 centuries and one fifty. In his debut Test series (Anderson-Tendulkar Series) as Team India Captain, Gill took on the responsibility with aplomb, leading the scoring charts with 700+ runs in 5-match series, also scoring a double hundred and a hundred in a single Test match. It was also due to his scintillating batting effort that India was able to draw the series 2-2. In the ODI format, he has performed on a consistent basis as well, scoring 490 runs in 11 innings with an average of 49.00 with two hundreds and two fifties.
Gill has been so vital to Team India that coach Gautam Gambhir has even included him in the T20 format and appointed him as the Vice-Captain there as well as he is being viewed as the future leader in all formats. Gill is still young and has a long way to go but he is slowly becoming India’s most important batter in red ball cricket and usually captaincy puts pressure on a player but Gill has only thrived under the additional responsibility and that is one more reason why he ranks as the top of the pile in the most consistent players for this year.
