England captain Joe Root claimed the International Cricket Council’s Player of the Month honor for August, beating Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah and Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi.
Among girls, Ireland all-rounder Ameer Richardson received the award final month.
Root scored 507 runs in three Tests towards India in August, together with three essential centuries, and the shape propelled him to the highest of the Test rankings for batsmen. The five-match collection got here to an abrupt finish when the ultimate Test within the Indian camp needed to be canceled as a result of COVID-19 outbreak.
Root and Richardson named ICC Players of the Month for August
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Former South Africa all-rounder JP Duminy mentioned, “With hope and responsibility on his shoulders as captain, I was really impressed how he led from the front with the bat and became the number one Test batsman in the world.” One of the panelists from the ICC Voting Academy mentioned in an announcement.
Richardson noticed stiff competitors from teammate Gabby Lewis and Thailand’s Nattaya Bouchtham.
Richardson carried out brilliantly within the Women’s T20 World Cup Europe qualifier final month, which earned her the participant of the event.
He took seven wickets within the event at an economic system price of 4.19, together with an important 2/6 within the opener towards Germany and a couple of/24 towards group-toppers Scotland.
It returned 2/0 and 1/22 towards France and the Netherlands, respectively, as Ireland completed second of their group.
His contribution went past the ball. He scored an important 49-ball 53 in his remaining match towards the Netherlands and scored a complete of 76 within the event – a comeback that put him within the high 5 of the run charts.
“It was very exciting to be nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August and it is so wonderful and humbling to be voted the winner now,” Richardson mentioned.
“It was great to contribute to the overall team’s performance in the European Qualifiers and hopefully we have done enough to make it to the next stage and compete again at the global level.”
Richardson’s efficiency was lauded by Zimbabwe’s Pommie Mbangwa of the ICC Voting Academy.
“Any team wants players to stand at critical times and Eymer’s (Richardson) contribution with bat and ball, coming at the right time, is consistent and especially important.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS