The International Cricket Council introduced the nominees for the Sir Garfield Sobers Award of the Year 2023, the biggest particular person cricketing award, on Friday, January 5. Two Indian cricketers Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja are amongst the 4 nominees for the ICC Men Cricketer of the Year 2023.
Australian captain Pat Cummins and star batter Travis Head have additionally bagged the nomination after a trophy-laden 12 months in 2023. Cummins led Australia to the ICC World Test Championship 2023 and ICC ODI World Cup 2023 whereas Head scored a whole bunch in the last matches of each tournaments.
Kohli witnessed an excellent 12 months throughout codecs, scoring 2048 runs in simply 36 worldwide innings at a mean of 66.06 in 2023. He additionally recorded eight centuries and claimed the Player of the Tournament award at the ICC World Cup 2023. Kohli was additionally India’s main run-getter in Tests in 2023 and achieved some memorable milestones all through the 12 months.
Ravindra Jadeja additionally made an impression in 2023 with 613 runs in 28 worldwide innings and was the main wicket-taker for India with 66 wickets in 39 innings.
ICC Cricketer of the Year 2023 (Sir Garfield Sobers Award) Nominees:
- Virat Kohli
- Pat Cummins
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Travis Head
Meanwhile, the ICC additionally revealed the nominees for the Test Cricket of the Year 2023 award. Australia’s in-form Usman Khawaja is amongst the main candidates after topping the scoring charts with 1210 runs in simply 12 Tests at a mean of 52.60 and was the solely batter to attain 1000-plus runs in 2023.
The present no.1 Test bowler Ravichandran Ashwin, Australia’s in-form batter Travis Head and former England captain Joe Root are the remaining three nominees to for the prestigious ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award.
ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2023:
- Usman Khawaja
- Travis Head
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Joe Root
