Indian batsmen Suryakumar Yadav and Smriti Mandhana have been on Thursday nominated for the lads’s and girls’s T20 Cricketer of the Year awards respectively for his or her exploits in 2022.
Suryakumar has been named for the highest honors within the males’s part together with T20 World Cup-winning England all-rounder Sam Curran, Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan and Zimbabwean batting all-rounder Sikandar Raza.
Pakistan’s bowling all-rounder Nida Dar, New Zealand’s Sophie Devine and Australian Tahlia McGrath will compete for Mandhana within the ladies’s part.
Suryakumar had a sensational 2022 within the shortest format of the sport, turning into solely the second batsman to attain over 1000 runs in a yr within the format. He ended the yr as the very best run-scorer with 1164 runs at a ridiculous strike-rate of 187.43. His tally of 68 sixes in a calendar yr in T20Is is the very best recorded within the format in a single yr by an affordable distance.
Suryakumar’s unbelievable consistency throughout codecs is mirrored in his common which hovers within the mid-40s. With two centuries and 9 fifties within the yr, Yadav was the main males’s T20 batsman. In the T20 World Cup in Australia, he registered three fifties in six innings at a mean of almost 60 within the match, whereas going at a strike-rate of 189.68. He continued his spectacular type after the match, registering his second century in T20Is of the yr within the bilateral collection in New Zealand.
This yr additionally noticed Suryakumar change into the top-ranked participant amongst males’s T20 batsmen, attaining a career-high 890 score factors.
Last yr’s ICC Women’s T20 Cricketer of the Year, Mandhana was as soon as once more an image of consistency within the shortest format.
Mandhana did effectively this yr, hitting the quickest half-century by an Indian lady (off simply 23 balls) to cross the 2500-run mark in T20Is. He made a mark within the enterprise finish of the yr with performances within the Commonwealth Games, T20 Asia Cup and a memorable five-match house collection in opposition to Australia. Mandhana’s most enjoyable innings of 2022 got here within the second T20 of the bilateral collection in opposition to Australia in December.
In entrance of over 47,000 spectators – the very best turnout for a ladies’s cricket match in India – at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium, Mandhana scored a 49-ball 79 as Australia chased down 187/1. She was India’s prime scorer within the match, taking the match to the very finish as India leveled the scores at 187/5 to arrange a Super Over conflict.
In the Super Over, India elected to bat and posted a aggressive 20/1, with Mandhana scoring 13 runs within the final three balls (4, 6, 3). It proved to be adequate for India as they restricted Australia to 16/1, registering a memorable victory in entrance of a roaring crowd.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
