New Zealand Cricket Awards 2024: Rachin Ravindra and Amelia Kerr bag major honours

Rachin Ravindra was honoured with the distinguished Sir Richard Hadlee Medal, the Men’s Cricketer of the Year award, in the course of the 2024 New Zealand Cricket Awards on Wednesday, March 13. Youngster Amelia Kerr claimed the Debbie Jockley Medal, the Women’s Cricketer of the Year, within the awards ceremony in Christchurch. 

The 24-year-old batting all-rounder’s identify burst into worldwide cricket in the course of the ICC World Cup 2023 in India the place he received the ICC’s Emerging Player of the Year for 2023. He scored 578 runs with three centuries within the World Cup and smashed a double century in a Test in opposition to South Africa final month. 

Rachin defeated the likes of star names Kane Williamson and Daryl Mitchell to win the largest annual award in New Zealand Cricket. Williamson was honoured with the Test Cricketer of the Year award whereas Mitchell bagged the Best ODI Player of the Year award. 

In girls’s cricket, Amelia Kerr claimed all three major awards after a sensational efficiency throughout codecs in 2023. Kerr, who’s at the moment enjoying for Mumbai Indians in WPL 2024, was the perfect participant for her workforce with constantly spectacular performances with each and ball.

Kerr, 23, was additionally a part of the ICC’s Women’s ODI and T20I Teams of the Year 2023. She was the main run-scorer in ODIs in 2023 with 541 runs in simply 9 innings with two centuries and three fifties.

2024 New Zealand Cricket Awards

1. Sir Richard Hadlee Medal – Rachin Ravindra
2. Debbie Hockley Medal – Amelia Kerr
3. Test Player of the Year – Kane Williamson
4. Men’s ODI Player of the Year – Daryl Mitchell
5. Women’s ODI Player of the Year – Amelia Kerr
6. Men’s T20I Player of the Year – Mitchell Santner
7. Women’s T20I Player of the Year – Amelia Kerr
8. Bert Sutcliffe Medal for Outstanding Services to Cricket – Trudy Anderson