Black Caps tempo spearhead Trent Boult and White Ferns skipper Sophie Devine received the ‘T20 International Player of the Year’ for his or her sensational run within the shortest format of the sport on the New Zealand Cricket Awards.
The awards are being delivered nearly over three days.
Boult was awarded for his splendid run on the T20 World Cup in UAE lst right here the place New Zealand reached the ultimate.
The 32-year previous had taken 13 wickets within the match and performed an important function in taking his facet to the finals.
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Boult defeated Tim Southee, Devon Conway, Daryl Mitchell and Ish Sodhi — who additionally performed important roles within the Black Caps’ run to the ultimate earlier than they misplaced to Australia — to take dwelling the award.
“It means a lot. T20 is a format I really enjoy and one I’m constantly trying to adapt my game to in order to become a better bowler. It’s something very special to win this award and I feel really grateful to receive it,” Boult, who’s
at present in India for the continued Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, stated.
Devine, alternatively, bagged her her second International Women’s T20 Player of the Year award in two years.
She scored 118 runs in 4 outings at a mean of 29.50 with an total strike-rate of 113.46 and a top-score of fifty towards England in Hove.
The fan second of the summer time went to the retired Ross Taylor for his ultimate wicket in his final Test towards Bangladesh in Christchurch.
A giant day of awards for Wellington
Congratulations to all of our winners! https://t.co/WmHo0WTklj
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Melie Kerr and Michael Bracewell have been named the respective Super Smash Players of the Year following their efforts for Wellington.
Day two of the awards on Wednesday will see the first-class and home batting and bowling cups handed out together with the lads’s and girls’s ODI Players of the Year, and the Umpire of the Year award.
Thursday’s ultimate day will see the presentation of the lads’s and girls’s Domestic Players of the Year, the Test Player of the Year, the Bert Sutcliffe Medal for excellent providers to cricket, and the supreme taking part in award – the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
