Suryakumar Yadav and Harmanpreet Kaur bagged the Wisden Almanack’s leading cricketer within the World awards.
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The Indian duo of Suryakumar Yadav and Harmanpreet Kaur has added one other feather to their excellent crown after bagging the Wisden Almanack’s leading cricketer within the World awards.
Suryakumar gained the honour of Wisden Almanack’s leading T20I cricketer whereas Harmanpreet Kaur turned the primary Indian girl to win the Cricketer of the Year award.
The yr 2022 in T20Is was virtually like a web session for Suryakumar. Wherever he went, he amassed runs for enjoyable: a complete of 1164 of them at a shocking strike fee of 187.43. This included 68 sixes, one thing no T20I batter has ever finished in a calendar yr.
His two centuries and 9 half-tons — together with three within the 2022 T20 World Cup alone — helped India win 28 of their 40 video games final yr. His standout knock in 2022 of the 55-ball 117 at Nottingham, his maiden T20 hundred.
As for Harman, she is without doubt one of the 5 Cricketers of the Year introduced within the 2023 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. A well-deserved honour for the champion of Indian girls’s cricket in 2022, having led the Women in Blue to a 3-0 ODI sequence win on English soil, the primary since 1999, and a Silver medal end on the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
She piled on 754 ODI runs, together with an unbeaten 143 within the England ODIs and 524 T20I runs — spoke for itself as she continues to make historical past and rewrite it along with her expertise and dedication to the game.
