Alyssa Healy, Keshav Maharaj win ICC ‘Player of Month’ awards for April

Australian ladies’s crew star keeper-batter Alyssa Healy and South African males’s aspect spinner Keshav Maharaj have been on Monday voted the ICC’s Player of the Month for April of their respective classes.

Keshav Maharaj ‘honoured’ to obtain the ICC Player of the Month (Reuters Photo)

HIGHLIGHTSKeshav Maharaj ‘honoured’ to obtain ICC Player of the MonthHealy was chosen because the stand-out feminine participant in AprilI’m very humbled to win this month’s award: Alyssa Healy

The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced on Monday that Australian ladies’s crew star Alyssa Healy and South African males’s spinner Keshav Maharaj have been voted the ‘Player of the Month for April of their respective classes.

Healy was chosen because the stand-out feminine participant in April following her match-winning innings of 170 within the Women’s Cricket World Cup closing in Christchurch, setting a document for the highest-ever rating within the summit conflict of any ICC international occasion.

”I’m very humbled to win this month’s award forward of two excellent gamers. It was nice to see Janet Mbabazi’s title within the combine after a stellar tri-series for Uganda,” Healy was quoted as saying in a launch issued by the ICC.

”I’m wanting ahead to seeing her title in competition for extra ICC Awards through the years to return. Thanks to all of the followers for voting and supporting the ladies’s sport. It’s been an amazing begin to 2022 for our sport and I’m wanting ahead to seeing what the remainder of the 12 months holds,” she added.

Proteas spinner Maharaj obtained the award for his prolific efficiency with the ball throughout their current ICC World Test Championship collection victory over Bangladesh on residence soil.

The spinner proved a relentless risk to the vacationers, taking 16 wickets at a mean of 12.12, celebrating two seven-wicket hauls within the second innings of each Tests. His wickets have been vital catalysts for his aspect’s 2-0 collection triumph, profitable comfortably on each events — by 220 runs in Durban and 332 runs in Gqeberha.

Acknowledging his award, Maharaj stated: ”I’m honored and privileged to obtain the ICC Player of the Month award for April and I need to thank my teammates for serving to me win this award. ”I’m actually pleased with how the crew has carried out this previous season and I hope we will construct on this to succeed in higher heights as a unit.”