The International Cricket Council has introduced November’s Player of the Month award winners in each girls’s and males’s classes. Australia’s aggressive southpaw Travis Head has received the award in the males’s class whereas Bangladesh’s gradual left-arm orthodox bowler Nahida Akter has received it in the girls’s class.
Nahida bagged seven wickets for Bangladesh in the just lately concluded sequence towards Pakistan at house at an astounding common of 14.14 and helped her facet clinch the three-match ODI sequence by a margin of 2-1. She pipped Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal and compatriot Fargana Haque Pinky to win the distinguished honour and expressed her elation on the identical.
“This is a second to cherish. To be recognised by such a distinguished panel of cricket specialists means quite a bit and profitable the ICC Women Player of the Month award will likely be an enormous supply of inspiration and motivation for me.Â
“We have played some amazing cricket in recent months and I am so happy to have contributed to the successes we have tasted as a team. I must thank my captain, coaches and teammates for always believing in me and that has allowed me to play my natural game against quality opponents and perform under pressure,” Akter advised ICC.
On the different hand, Head scored 220Â runs in November which included two match-winning innings (62 and 137) that got here towards South Africa in the ODI World Cup semis and the remaining towards India. He was additionally awarded the Player of the Match honour in the remaining for serving to Australia win their sixth ODI World Cup title.
Head, 29, confronted stiff competitors from compatriot Glenn Maxwell and India’s Mohammed Shami for the ICC honour however claimed it by advantage of performing when the stakes have been actually excessive. It is his first Player of the Month award and one that he’s going to cherish for a very long time.
“It’s been an incredible 12 months for the team which it has been a real privilege to be a part of. The way we have navigated a home summer, away trips to India, England, South Africa, India and the World Cup has been great credit to Pat, the players and the staff,” Head advised ICC.
“I used to be lucky that they saved the religion in me for the World Cup after breaking my hand, so it was an excellent alternative for me to pay them again. I felt the World Cup was amongst the finest I’ve ever batted, so perhaps having a relaxation earlier than each marketing campaign is the key.
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“It’s a great honour to be recognised with this award, but it is a team effort. Without my team-mates across all formats this wouldn’t have happened; so these types of awards are as much for them as they are for me.”
