India pacer Jasprit Bumrah was on Monday nominated for the ICC ‘Player of the Month’ award for August after his spectacular efficiency with each bat and ball within the ongoing Test collection towards England. The ICC introduced that other than Bumrah, England’s Test captain Joe Root and Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi can be included within the males’s part.
Thailand’s Nattaya Bouchtham and Ireland’s Gabby Lewis and Eimer Richardson nominated within the ladies’s competitors. Bumrah, who carried out exceptionally together with his quick bowling towards England, took 9 wickets within the first Test. He was equally praised for his position with the bat within the second Test at Lord’s, when he contributed to an 89-run ninth-wicket partnership with Mohammed Shami that proved essential to India’s victory.
England leveled the collection within the third Test, principally because of captain Root, who has plundered runs at will. He scored centuries in every of the three Test matches towards India in August, a purple patch that propelled him to the highest of the Test batting rankings. Afridi, alternatively, promised to take a wicket each time he bowled within the two Tests towards the West Indies in August.
He completed the collection with 18 wickets, taking 10 wickets within the second Test and serving to Pakistan safe a series-equalling 109-run victory. Taking 10 wickets in Tests, Afridi turned the fourth-youngest Pakistan quick bowler after Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Mohammad Zahid to realize the feat. In ladies’s cricket, Bouchtham contributed with each bat and ball within the collection towards Zimbabwe, which propelled her to a career-best place within the Women’s T20I participant rankings for batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders.
His efficiency helped Thailand win the three-match T20I collection 2-1 towards Zimbabwe. While the Irish pair of Lewis and Richardson performed an enormous position in Ireland’s three out of 4 wins within the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier in August.
Lewis turned the primary participant from Ireland to attain a century in ladies’s T20Is throughout their 164-run victory over Germany within the opening sport of the match. He had 11 fours and three sixes in his innings and he had simply 60 runs in 105 balls. Meanwhile, Richardson was adjudged Player of the Tournament within the Europe Qualifiers, because of his contributions with each bat and ball.
He completed the match with seven wickets at an economic system price of 4.19 and scored 76 runs with the bat.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
