The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced the nominations for the Player of the Month award for December for each women and men. As the identify suggests, the high finest performers for the month discover themselves getting nominated in men’s and girls’s matches throughout these 30-31 days whereas one will get to be the winner after the public voting and ICC jury’s name.
Australian captain Pat Cummins along with his double five-wicket haul in the Boxing Day Test in opposition to Pakistan was one of the standout performers, including to his three wickets in Perth. Glenn Phillips, the high run-getter for New Zealand in the two Tests in opposition to Bangladesh acquired a spot alongside Cummins aside from Bangladesh left-arm spinner Taijul Islam. As far as ladies gamers are involved, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma, the two Indian stars who carried out throughout codecs in opposition to England and Australia headlined the nominations whereas Zimbabwe’s Precious Marange was the third nominee.
The 41-year-old Marange was the main wicket-taker (13) in the Africa Regional Qualifier for the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 and therefore discovered her identify on the checklist. After half-centuries in the two Tests (one every in opposition to England and Australia), Rodrigues scored 82 and 44 in the two ODIs whereas Deepti had an outstanding month with each bat and ball.
Deepti was the Player of the Match in opposition to England in the one-off Test match and ended up scoring 165 runs throughout two red-ball video games and 11 wickets. In the second ODI in opposition to Australia, her five-wicket haul helped India prohibit Australia to 258/8.Â
As far as the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce is anxious, solely Harmanpreet Kaur has been capable of win the ICC Player of the Month Award for September 2022 because it began again in 2021.Â
As far as males are involved, none of Cummins, Phillips or Taijul have received it earlier than and whoever wins, will get it for the first time.
