ICC released the names of the players named for the Cricketer of the Year, men could not do what Smriti Mandhana did
The ICC has announced the shortlisted candidates for its biggest award of the year, the Sir Garry Sobers Player of the Year Trophy. This time no Indian cricketer’s name has been included for this trophy. The ICC has selected England Test captain Ben Stokes, New Zealand Test captain Tim Southee, Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe and Pakistan captain Babar Azam in the top four players.
Please tell that Babar and Sikandar have also been nominated for the ODI Player of the Year trophy. Significantly, the Pakistan team under the leadership of Babar Azam has performed very well in the year 2022. The Pakistan team had succeeded in making it to the finals of the T20 World Cup. Although the England team had captured the World Cup.
On the other hand, talking about women, the names of England player Nat Sciver, Indian batsman Smriti Mandhana, New Zealand player Amelia Kerr and Australian player Beth Mooney have been selected for the Rachel Hehoe Flint Trophy ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. Let us tell you that in the year 2021, Mandhana, who was the best female cricketer of the ICC, is once again in the race for the award. She has scored the most runs for India in all formats combined. He scored 594 runs in T20 last year and 696 runs in ODIs. Her performance in the Women’s World Cup and Commonwealth Games was also commendable.
Apart from this, Johnny Bairstow of England, Usman Khawaja of Australia, Kagiso Rabada of South Africa, England player Ben Stokes have been included in the list for the Best Male Test Cricketer of the Year. Pakistan’s Babar Azam, West Indies’ Shai Hope, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, Australian cricketer Adam Zampa’s name are included for ODIs. Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy, South African Shabnam Ismail, New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr, England’s Nat Sciver have been included in the list for the Best Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Nida Dar, Sophie Devine, Smriti Mandhana, Tahlia McGrath have been named for the Best Women’s T20 Cricketer of the Year. Sam Karen, Sikandar Raza, Mohammad Rizwan, Suryakumar Yadav Udiyaman for the best male T20 cricketer of the year and Finn Allen, Marco Jensen, Arshdeep Singh, Ibrahim Zadran Udiyaman for the male cricketer. On the other hand, the names of Yastika Bhatia, Darcy Brown, Alice Kepse, Renuka Singh have been selected for women cricketers.
