India’s Shubman Gill was on Wednesday introduced because the winner of ICC’s Participant of the month award for February after his performances within the just lately concluded Champions Trophy in addition to the ODI sequence towards England. Within the month of February, Gill performed 5 ODIs and scored 406 runs, averaging 101.50 at a strike fee of 94.19.
Gill, who received the award after beating Australia’s Steve Smith and New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips, scored over fifty runs in all three ODIs within the England sequence the place he slammed 87 in Nagpur, 60 in Cuttack after which 112 in Ahmedabad.
Persevering with his golden run into the Champions Trophy, Gill hit an unbeaten 101 to guide India’s chase of their match opener towards Bangladesh right here. He adopted it up with a resolute 46 towards Pakistan.
India received each of their opening matches within the Champions Trophy on the again of those knocks. After single digit scores towards new Zealand and Australia in a gaggle stage match and semifinal respectively, Gill scored 31 within the last towards the Kiwis.
Star India batter takes house the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for February 2025 🔥
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— ICC (@ICC) March 12, 2025
That is the third ICC Males’s Participant of the Month honour for Gill, who had beforehand received it twice in 2023 — January and September.
Gill has additionally just lately come underneath reward from former India participant Sanjay Bangar who mentioned that the Punjab participant will lead the Indian workforce’s batting within the years to come back.
“Clearly, he’s the man who’s going to shoulder the duty of the Indian workforce going ahead in years to come back,” Bangar mentioned on JioHotstar.
In the meantime, Gill additionally retained his spot on the high of the ODI batter rankings after his show through the Champions Trophy, whereas his Indian captain Rohit Sharma got here up from fifth to 3rd after his match-winning efficiency towards New Zealand within the last.
Their teammate, Virat Kohli is at the moment ranked No. 5 along with his 218 runs within the Champions Trophy.
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