Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman nominated for ICC Player of the Month | Cricket News

Pakistan batsmen Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman had been on Wednesday nominated for the ICC ‘Player of the Month’ award for April following their stupendous efficiency in the limited-overs collection in opposition to South Africa.

The ICC on Wednesday introduced the nominees to recognise the finest performances from each female and male cricketers throughout all types of worldwide cricket and for the first time, the listing didn’t characteristic any Indian.

Besides the Pakistan duo, Nepal batsman Khushal Bhurtel was the different participant to be nominated in the males’s class, the ICC acknowledged in a media launch. 

The nominees amongst the ladies’s cricketers comprised the Australian duo of Alyssa Healy and Megan Schutt and New Zealand’s Leigh Kasperek.

Last month, Pakistan captain Babar had grow to be the No.1 ranked batsman in the ICC ODI Player Rankings, ending India captain Virat Kohli’s lengthy reign at the prime of the charts.

Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI in opposition to South Africa helped him acquire 13 score factors to achieve a career-best 865 factors.

He additionally contributed 122 from 59 balls in Pakistan’s profitable chase in the third match of a T20I collection in opposition to the similar opposition.

His compatriot Fakhar additionally produced stellar performances throughout the month, scoring two centuries in the ODI collection victory over South Africa, together with an impressive 193 in the second match in Johannesburg.

Nepal’s Khushal, on the different hand, was the main run-scorer as his staff received a tri-series additionally that includes the Netherlands and Malaysia.

His important contribution with the bat totalled 278 runs, together with 4 half-centuries in 5 matches.

In ladies’s cricket, Alyssa performed three ODIs versus New Zealand, scoring 155 runs at a mean of 51.66 and a strike price of 98.72.

Her efforts noticed her end as the main run-scorer in Australia’s collection victory over New Zealand that prolonged their record-winning streak to 24 ODIs.

Her teammate Megan turned Australia’s main wicket-taker in the similar collection, taking seven wickets at a mean of 13.14.

New Zealand’s Leigh performed two ODIs in opposition to Australia, attaining career-best figures of six for 46 in the second match of the collection, and adopted this up with three extra wickets in the ultimate match, ending with 9 wickets at a mean of 7.77.