Stylish opener Smriti Mandhana is the one Indian throughout the ladies and men’s classes to function among the many ICC nominees for the Cricketer of the Year honour.
Mandhana shall be competing for the highest honours alongside England’s Nat Sciver, New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr and Australia opener Beth Mooney.
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam, England Test captain Ben Stokes, Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza and New Zealand Test captain Tim Southee are the nominees for the Men’s Cricketer of the Year award.
Stokes can be among the many Test Cricket of the Year nominees alongside compatriot Jonny Bairstow, Australia opener Usman Khawaja and South Africa speedster Kagiso Rabada.
Voting for the awards is about to begin subsequent week the place international cricket followers could have the prospect to submit their votes alongside a specialist ICC Voting Academy comprising distinguished cricket media representatives to find out the 2022 winners, stated the ICC in a press release.
Mandhana, who’s the winner of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021, is within the working as soon as once more to bag the coveted value in 2022.
Mandhana continued her wealthy vein of kind in worldwide cricket for the second 12 months working, ending as India’s highest run-scorer throughout codecs. She confirmed her unbelievable prowess within the white-ball codecs and was the best run-getter in T20Is (594 runs) and the second-highest in ODIs (696 runs) for India.
Mandhana made her presence felt at each the foremost tournaments this 12 months – the Women’s Cricket World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. In the latter, she was one of many driving forces in India going by way of to the ultimate and bagging the silver medal within the first-ever girls’s cricket occasion on the Commonwealth Games.
Stokes is a front-runner to grow to be the Men’s Cricketer of the Year.
England was dwelling a nightmare in Test cricket after humiliating collection losses within the Ashes and the collection in opposition to West Indies. Joe Root resigned because the Test skipper and the reins had been handed over to Stokes and Brendon McCullum, the coach.
Since then, Stokes has taken England to new heights, profitable 9 of the ten Tests as captain. Along the best way, he has scored 870 runs, together with two centuries, and picked up 26 wickets.
The talismanic all-rounder didn’t have an excellent white-ball 12 months. In truth, he introduced his retirement from ODI cricket to give attention to the opposite codecs.
In T20Is, he scored 143 runs in 9 matches and picked up seven wickets. The numbers could not appear important, however 52 of these runs got here when England wanted them essentially the most within the T20 World Cup ultimate in opposition to Pakistan.