England captain Joe Root, New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson and Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan had been on Friday chosen for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year award for his or her stellar performances throughout codecs.
The award will likely be given to the most effective performer in males’s worldwide cricket (Test, ODI and T20I) throughout 2021. The winner, who lifts the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, will likely be introduced on 24 January.
Root loved a yr that might go down within the pages of historical past books, scoring 1855 runs in 18 worldwide matches with six centuries at a median of 58.37. However, he confronted disappointment as captain as England suffered an Ashes humiliation.
His yr started with a marathon innings of 228 in opposition to Sri Lanka in Galle and he solely went from energy to energy.
He would comply with up his exploits in opposition to Sri Lanka with a memorable innings at Chennai, a scintillating 218 in opposition to a spin assault of the best caliber in opposition to India within the scorching warmth.
Root continued his stellar type within the return leg of the Test collection at residence in opposition to India, scoring 564 runs in 4 matches with three centuries to his identify.
His performances additionally helped him attain the head of the ICC Test Player Rankings for batting, the place he would ultimately get replaced by Marnus Labuschagne.
Despite failing to transform his begins into large scores, Root remained England’s finest batsman in opposition to Australia within the first three Ashes Tests.
Compared to Root, Williamson had a modest complete of 693 runs in 16 worldwide matches with one century at a median of 43.31, however the admirable Kiwis can’t be judged solely on the idea of the runs he scored.
It was additionally his spectacular management that helped the Blackcaps obtain unchanged heights in the course of the yr. Nothing is extra vital than the ICC World Test Championship remaining in opposition to India in Southampton.
Williamson additionally performed an vital function with the bat in that sport, scoring an important 49 within the first innings in opposition to a high quality bowling unit in situations that aided the quick bowlers. Chasing a goal of 139, he performed an important innings of 52 not out, earlier than selecting up the mace to take his facet residence.
His management will once more be essential in the course of the T20 World Cup within the United Arab Emirates and Oman, along with his technique serving to New Zealand attain the ultimate.
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rizwan scored 1915 runs in 44 worldwide matches at a median of 56.32 with two centuries. He additionally took 56 outs behind the wicket.
Rizwan reigned within the shortest format of the sport in 2021. Rizwan scored 1326 runs in simply 29 matches, putting at a median of 73.66 and a strike fee of 134.89.
Apart from his exploits with the bat, he was as strong behind the stumps as ever, enjoying a key function in Pakistan’s semi-final entry in the course of the T20 World Cup.
Rizwan stepped up his sport in Test cricket as effectively, scoring 455 runs in 9 matches at a median of 45.50.
Swing, seam, tempo and fast yorkers – Shaheen Afridi confirmed all of it in 36 worldwide matches in 2021 with 78 wickets at a median of twenty-two.20. He had the most effective bowling figures of 6/51, the tall Pakistani quick bowler on hearth all through 2021, toppling a few of the finest batsmen in all three codecs of the sport. He had a yr to recollect particularly in Tests and T20Is, reaching his peak in the course of the T20 World Cup within the UAE, the place he impressed everybody along with his fast tempo and abilities.
He would take seven wickets in six matches in the course of the event as Pakistan reached the semi-finals. He dominated the shortest format all through the calendar yr, taking 23 wickets in 21 matches and his dying bowling improved quickly.
He took 47 wickets in 9 Test matches at a median of 17.06.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
