Jasprit Bumrah Nominated For ICC ‘Player Of The Month’ Award For August

India tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Monday nominated for the ICC ‘Participant of the Month’ award for August following some high-quality performances with each the bat and ball within the ongoing Take a look at collection towards England. In addition to Bumrah, the others within the males’s class included England Take a look at skipper Joe Root and Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi, the ICC introduced. The nominees among the many girls have been Thailand’s Nattaya Boochatham, and the Eire duo of Gaby Lewis and Eimear Richardson. Bumrah, who has been distinctive with the ball in hand towards England, took 9 wickets within the first Take a look at.

He obtained simply as many plaudits for his function with the bat within the second Take a look at at Lord’s, when he contributed in an 89-run ninth-wicket partnership with Mohammed Shami that proved pivotal to India’s win.

England went on to degree the collection within the third Take a look at, largely due to captain Root, who has plundered runs at will. He scored centuries in every of the three Assessments towards India in August, a purple patch that led him to the highest of the Take a look at batting rankings.

Then again, Afridi, in two Assessments towards the West Indies in August, took wickets each time he was thrown the ball.

He ended the collection with 18 wickets, taking 10 wickets within the second Take a look at and helped Pakistan safe a series-levelling 109-run victory.

In taking 10 wickets within the Take a look at, Afridi turned the fourth-youngest paceman from Pakistan to attain the feat, after Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Mohammad Zahid.

In girls’s cricket, Boochatham made contributions with each bat and ball within the collection towards Zimbabwe, which propelled her to career-best positions throughout the ladies’s T20I participant rankings for batters, bowlers, and all-rounders. Her performances helped Thailand to win their three-match T20I collection towards Zimbabwe 2-1.

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Whereas the Irish duo of Lewis and Richardson performed a giant half in Eire’s three wins out of 4 within the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier in August. Lewis turned the primary Eire participant to attain a century in girls’s T20Is, throughout their 164-run win over Germany, within the opening sport of the event. Her knock featured 11 fours and three sixes, and her 105 got here off simply 60 balls.

Richardson, in the meantime, was adjudged the Participant of the Event in Europe Qualifiers, due to her contributions with each bat and ball. She completed the event with seven wickets at an financial system charge of 4.19, and aggregated 76 runs with the bat.