New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra.
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The greatest discover of New Zealand’s World Cup marketing campaign in India, Rachin Ravindra on Wednesday grew to become the youngest recipient of the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal after turning into the nation’s finest male cricketer of the yr.
Among ladies, Melie Kerr grabbed the main prizes on the New Zealand Cricket Awards.
Kane Williamson was recognised for his excellent kind within the Test area with the ANZ Test Player of the Year Award, and profitable the Redpath Cup for males’s first-class batting.
At 24, Ravindra is the youngest winner within the award’s historical past, after a season that is seen him turn out to be a mainstay of New Zealand’s crimson and white ball sides.
After breaking into the 50-over facet in March final yr, Ravindra shone within the ODI World Cup in India, scoring 578 runs at a median of 64, together with three centuries and two half-centuries, together with an unbeaten 123 within the match opener towards England in Ahmedabad.
As a outcome, Ravindra was named because the ICC’s Emerging Player of the Year for 2023, and likewise secured a USD 350,000 Indian Premier League contract with Chennai Super Kings.
The Sir Richard Hadlee Medal capped off a breakout season for Ravindra on the worldwide stage, on which he contributed for the Kiwis throughout all three codecs.
Ravindra continued his meteoric rise within the Test area, registering New Zealand’s highest ever maiden Test century with 240 in the course of the first Test towards South Africa at Bay Oval, and taking part in a key position within the BLACKCAPS first ever Test collection victory over South Africa.
He additionally shone on the T20 worldwide stage, that includes in 14 of the BLACKCAPS’ 26 T20I matches over the season and scoring a blistering 68 from 35 balls within the first T20I towards Australia at Sky Stadium.
Kerr claimed a clear sweep of the main feminine awards, profitable the Debbie Hockley Medal after being named ANZ ODI and T20I Player of the Year, and the Dream11 Super Smash Women’s Player of the Year.
The leg-spinning allrounder was the WHITE FERNS’ main ODI run-scorer with 541 runs at a median of 67, notching her third and fourth ODI centuries alongside the way in which.
She was additionally the group’s joint main T20 wicket-taker and second highest T20I run scorer with 252 runs at a median of 42 and a strike-rate of 118.
Kerr’s performances on the worldwide entrance have been recognised with choice in each the ladies’s ODI and T20I ICC Teams of the Year for 2023.
Kerr additionally led the way in which on the home entrance, captaining the Wellington Blaze to their fourth Dream11 Super Smash title in six years, topping the run-scoring charts with 437 runs at a median of 72, and the wicket-taking charts with 20 wickets at 8 and an financial system of 4.47.
