Indian batsman Jemima Rodrigues was on Monday nominated for the ICC ‘Player of the Month’ award for her stellar efficiency on the Commonwealth Games in August.
Nominations within the girls’s class additionally included the gold medal-winning Australian pair of Beth Mooney and Tahlia McGrath. Rodrigues was one of many pillars of the Indian staff which entered the ultimate of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. He completed the event fifth on the run-scorers’ record, scoring 146 runs in 5 matches.
Rodrigues was India’s high run-scorer with an unbeaten 56 off 46 balls within the essential conflict towards Barbados, serving to his aspect attain the semi-finals. Mooney, however, was the very best run-scorer within the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
He hit a superb unbeaten 70 off 49 balls towards Pakistan in Australia’s last Group A recreation, adopted by a 29-ball 36 within the semi-final towards New Zealand, getting his staff out of bother after early wickets . ,
McGrath impressed along with his all-round expertise. She was one of many key components in making historical past in Australia and securing a gold medal within the girls’s event for the primary time within the occasion’s historical past.
He completed the event because the joint second-highest wicket-taker with eight wickets in 5 matches. England’s Test captain Ben Stokes, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza and New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner are named within the males’s part. In the second Test towards the Proteas in Manchester, Stokes broke South Africa’s middle-order with the wickets of Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen because the guests have been knocked out for 151 runs.
He then scored a scintillating century when England have been troubled by shedding early wickets on the second day. Raza totally loved August. Going head-to-head towards Asian giants India and Bangladesh, Raza scored three centuries in a month.
Santner additionally loved a stellar month with each bat and ball and was instrumental within the Black Caps’ six out of eight wins within the month.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
