India tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Monday nominated for the ICC ‘Player of the Month’ award for August following his sensible performances with each the bat and ball within the ongoing Test sequence in opposition to England. Besides Bumrah, the others within the males’s class included England Test 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 Ireland duo of Gaby Lewis and Eimear Richardson. Bumrah, who has been distinctive together with his quick bowling in opposition to England, took 9 wickets within the first Test. He obtained simply as many plaudits for his position with the bat within the second Test at Lord’s, when he contributed to an 89-run ninth-wicket partnership with Mohammad Shami that proved pivotal to India’s win.
England went on to stage the sequence within the third Test, principally due to captain Root, who has plundered runs at will. He scored centuries in every of the three Tests in opposition to India in August, a purple patch that led him to the highest of the Test batting rankings. On the opposite hand, Afridi, in two Tests in opposition to West Indies in August, promised wickets each time he was thrown the ball.
He ended the sequence with 18 wickets, taking 10 wickets within the second Test and helped Pakistan safe a series-levelling 109-run victory. In taking 10 wickets within the Test, Afridi grew to become the fourth-youngest paceman from Pakistan to realize the feat, after Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Mohammad Zahid. In girls’s cricket, Boochatham made contributions with each bat and ball within the sequence in opposition to 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 win their three-match T20I sequence in opposition to Zimbabwe 2-1. While the Irish duo of Lewis and Richardson performed a giant half in Ireland’s three wins out of 4 within the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier in August.
Lewis grew to become the primary Ireland participant to attain a century in girls’s T20Is, throughout their 164-run win over Germany, within the opening recreation 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 Player of the Tournament in Europe Qualifiers, due to her contributions with each bat and ball.
She completed the event with seven wickets at an economic system fee of 4.19, and aggregated 76 runs with the bat.
