The Indian trio of Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Axar Patel was on Wednesday nominated ICC ‘Participant of the Month’ award within the men and women’s classes for September.
Skipper Kaur and vice-captain Mandhana have been shortlisted for the very first time and if one in all them goes on to win will then turn out to be the primary ever India participant to win the Girls’s Participant of the Month award, because of stellar performances in each ODI and T20I collection in England. Axar, however, has been nominated for the lads’s Participant of the Month following a collection of spectacular and restrictive bowling shows towards Australia and South Africa.
Regardless of a disappointing T20I collection in England in the beginning of the month, Kaur was in imperious kind in the course of the subsequent ODI collection which adopted.
Scoring 221 runs throughout the three matches, she guided her facet over the ending line within the first match with a managed 74 not out, earlier than she clinched the collection for her staff in fashion within the second match, putting an unbeaten 143 to seal a historic first ODI collection victory for her facet in England since 1999.
One other of the main lights of India’s batting lineup, and final 12 months’s winner of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Girls’s Cricketer of the 12 months, Mandhana additionally excelled throughout her time in England in September.
She scored persistently throughout each white-ball collection, highlighted by her unbeaten 79 in the course of the first T20I in Derby and 91 within the first ODI in Canterbury – each match profitable contributions. Mandhana additionally ended the month averaging over 50 in each codecs, and with a strike-rate of 137 within the T20Is, underlining the dimensions of her successes in the course of the month.
Bangladesh’s Nigar Sultana, who captained her facet to seal their place on the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2023 is the third nominee within the girls’s class.
So usually a key risk in India’s bowling assault, Axar loved a prolific September to earn his first nomination for Participant of the Month.
Claiming a complete of 9 wickets at a median of 11.44 and with an excellent economic system fee of simply 5.72, he most notably excelled within the house collection towards Australia, the place he took three for 17 in Mohali, two for 13 in Nagpur, and three for 33 in Hyderabad to underline his important credentials as a key asset for India within the shorter format.
Australia’s Cameron Inexperienced, was an instrumental determine in notable victories over New Zealand and India, and Pakistan wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan, who dazzled with a glittering run of performances with the bat, are the opposite nominees.