South African batter Keegan Petersen pipped under-19 star and compatriot Dewald Brevis and Bangladesh pacer Ebadot Hossain to assert the ICC males’s Player of the Month award for January following an exceptional Test collection in opposition to India.
For the ladies’s award, England skipper Heather Knight beat off competitors from Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu and West Indies star Deandra Dottin to clinch the honour.
Petersen performed a pivotal function as South Africa got here again from 0-1 right down to win the three-match collection 2-1 in opposition to India. In the second Test, he scored 62 within the first innings, serving to the Proteas achieve a slender lead. In his chase of 240, he performed a vital 28-run knock.
In the ultimate Test, Petersen scored a fifty in every innings, together with an outstanding 82 in a difficult fourth-innings chase of 212 that helped South Africa full their comeback.
He ended the collection as the very best run-scorer with 276 runs and was named the Player of the Series.
“With the hype of the series and the high expectation, the composure he showed while batting in a pivotal No.3 position was simply staggering,” mentioned former South Africa star and member of the voting panel JP Duminy.
Knight captained England within the one-off Ashes Test in opposition to Australia in Canberra and completed as the very best run-getter.
In the primary innings, England had been in large bother as they saved shedding wickets after Australia posted 337/9 declared. However, they didn’t have a solution to Knight, who walked in to bat at No.3 within the third over and remained unbeaten on 168.
At one level, the guests had been 169/8 earlier than Knight and Sophie Ecclestone added 100 runs for the ninth wicket and finally completed with 297, simply 40 runs behind Australia. The knock helped England safe an exhilarating draw that went to the final ball of the match.
Her 168 not out was the second-highest rating by a captain within the historical past of girls’s Tests.
“168 is the highest Test score by any female English batter against Australia in Australia,” former India pacer Irfan Pathan, member of the voting panel, mentioned.
“It can be the second-highest rating in ladies’s Tests in Australia. Her innings is made much more exceptional given its significance in securing the draw for England in the one Test.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
