Stylish opener Smriti Mandhana is the one Indian in each the ladies’s and males’s classes to be nominated by the ICC for the Cricketer of the Year honour.
Mandhana will compete with England’s Nat Sciver, New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr and Australian opener Beth Mooney for the highest honours. Pakistan captain Babar Azam, England Test captain Ben Stokes, Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza and New Zealand Test captain Tim Southee are nominated for the Men’s Cricketer of the Year award.
Stokes can be among the many Test Cricketer of the Year nominees together with compatriot Jonny Bairstow, Australia opener Usman Khawaja and South African pacer Kagiso Rabada. Voting for the awards will start subsequent week, the place world cricket followers may have the possibility to submit their votes to an skilled ICC Voting Academy comprising key cricket media representatives to find out the 2022 winners, the ICC mentioned in an announcement.
Mandhana, who’s the winner of the Rachael Hayhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021, is as soon as once more within the operating to bag the coveted award in 2022.
Mandhana continued her advantageous kind in worldwide cricket for the second 12 months in a row, changing into India’s highest run-scorer throughout all codecs. She confirmed her unimaginable prowess within the white-ball format and was the very best run-scorer for India in T20Is (594 runs) and second highest in ODIs (696 runs).
Mandhana made appearances at each the main tournaments this 12 months – the Women’s Cricket World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. Later, she was one of many driving forces behind India going to the finals and profitable a silver medal within the first-ever girls’s cricket competitors on the Commonwealth Games.
Stokes is the frontrunner to be named the Men’s Cricketer of the Year.
England have been residing a nightmare in Test cricket after humiliating collection losses within the Ashes and collection towards the West Indies. Joe Root resigned as Test captain and the reins have been handed over to Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.
Since then, Stokes has taken England to new heights, profitable 9 out of 10 Tests as captain. Also, he has scored 870 runs, together with two centuries, and brought 26 wickets. The talismanic all-rounder hasn’t had a terrific white-ball 12 months. In reality, he introduced his retirement from ODI cricket to deal with different codecs.
In T20Is, he scored 143 runs in 9 matches and took seven wickets. The numbers could not appear vital, however 52 of those runs got here when England wanted it most within the World Cup ultimate.
ICC Awards 2022 – Shortlist:
the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Babar Azam (PAK), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Tim Southee (NZ), Ben Stokes (ENG) Rachel Hayhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Amelia Kerr (NZ), Smriti Mandhana (IND), Beth Mooney (AUS), Nat Sciver (ENG) ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year; Jonny Bairstow (England), Usman Khawaja (Australia), Kagiso Rabada (South Africa), Ben Stokes (England) ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Babar Azam (PAK),
Shai Hope (West Indies), Sikandar Raza (Gym), Adam Zampa (Australia) ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Alyssa Healy (Australia), Shabnim Ismail (South Africa), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand)
Nat Sciver (ENG) ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Mohammad Rizwan (PAK), Suryakumar Yadav (IND) ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Nida Dar (PAK), Sophie Devine (NZ), Smriti Mandhana (IND), Tahlia McGrath (AUS)
ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Finn Allen (NZ), Marco Jansen (SA), Arshdeep Singh (IND), Ibrahim Zadran (AFG) ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Yastika Bhatia (IND), Darcy Brown (AUS), Alice Capse (ENG), Renuka Singh (IND).
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
