Suryakumar Yadav named ICC’s T20I cricketer of the 12 months for second straight time

A stellar 2023 the place he completed as the very best run-scorer in T20Is amongst Full Member nations has seen Suryakumar Yadav bag the boys’s T20I cricketer of the 12 months award for the second 12 months operating. He beat fellow rivals Sikandar Raza, Alpesh Ramjani and Mark Chapman to take the award house.Suryakumar began the 12 months scoring simply 7 towards Sri Lanka however adopted it up with scores of 51 (36) and 112 not out (51) within the subsequent two matches. The center-order batter went from energy to energy within the format thereon. In all, he performed 17 T20I innings in 2023, recording 733 runs at 48.86 which included 5 half-centuries and two tons of. Extra importantly, amidst the carnage, he maintained a strike fee of 155.95.

Suryakumar completed the 12 months because the third-highest run-getter amongst all batters solely behind UAE’s Muhammad Waseem (863 in 23 innings) and Uganda’s Roger Mukasa (738 in 31 innings). Each batters, nevertheless, performed extra video games than Suryakumar.

The 31-year-old completed 2023 on a excessive observe with a 56-ball 100 towards South Africa. With Rohit Sharma opting out and Hardik Pandya injured, Suryakumar was additionally handed the captaincy of the Indian T20I facet. He gave an excellent account of himself taking India to a 4-1 collection win towards Australia at house earlier than drawing a three-match collection towards South Africa 1-1.

Rachin Ravindra wins rising participant of the 12 months

A really breakthrough 12 months the place he lit up the 2023 ODI World Cup has resulted in New Zealand batter Rachin Ravindra profitable the boys’s rising participant of the 12 months award. He overcame challenges from South Africa quick bowler Gerald Coetzee, Sri Lanka fast Dilshan Madushanka and India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal.Having made his 50-over debut towards Sri Lanka in March, Ravindra performed 25 ODIs in 2023, scoring 820 runs at a median of 41.00 whereas additionally choosing 18 wickets at 46.61. He scored 91 runs in 12 T20Is whereas taking 5 wickets however it was his performances on the ODI World Cup that helped him zoom to the highest.

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Ravindra had a sensational time of it opening the batting for New Zealand as he amassed 578 runs in ten innings at 64.22. He scored two fifties and three centuries and completed because the fourth-highest scorer within the match behind Virat Kohli (765), Rohit Sharma (597) and Quinton de Kock (594).

“It is clearly a really particular feeling,” Ravindra mentioned when accepting the award. “Everytime you get recognised by the ICC for one thing it’s all the time particular.

Hayley Matthews topped ladies’s T20I cricketer of the 12 months

West Indies captain Hayley Matthews capped off a superb 12 months by taking house the ladies’s T20I cricketer of the 12 months award, overcoming stiff competitors from Australia’s Ellyse Perry, England’s Sophie Ecclestone, and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu.No different batter had extra runs than Matthews’ 700 in 14 innings at a median of 63.63. She additionally picked up 19 wickets at 16.21. Matthews had a very gorgeous tour of Australia in October 2023 the place she completed the three-match T20I collection with scores of 99*, 132 and 79. Her tally of 310 runs is probably the most by any participant in a ladies’s T20I bilateral collection.

Matthews is the second West Indies participant to bag the award after Stafanie Taylor in 2015.

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De Leede wins males’s affiliate cricketer of the 12 months

A key element behind Netherlands qualifying for the primary draw of the 2023 ODI World Cup, Bas de Leede has been named the boys’s affiliate cricketer of the 12 months. The allrounder completed the 12 months with 31 wickets in 16 ODIs at 28.26 whereas additionally scoring 424 runs at 28.26 with one fifty and 100.

In probably the most talked-about all-round performances of the 12 months, de Leede picked 5 for 52 towards Scotland in a World Cup qualifier recreation after which backed it up with a 92-ball 123 to virtually single-handedly take Netherlands into the ultimate.

In the meantime, Kenyan allrounder Queentor Abel has been topped the ladies’s affiliate cricketer of the 12 months. Abel scored 476 runs in 17 T20Is at 34.00 in 2023 with a high rating of 109 towards Lesotho. She additionally picked 30 wickets with a median of seven.36 and an financial system of three.81.

Groups of the 12 months

The 2023 ODI World Cup runner-up India dominated the ODI crew of the 12 months launched by ICC. Rohit Sharma was named captain of the facet which had as many as six Indians within the XI. The Australians in the meantime hogged the limelight in ICC’s Check crew of the 12 months. The WTC champions had 5 members within the XI with Pat Cummins main the facet.Chamari Athapaththu was named captain of the ladies’s ODI crew of the 12 months which had 5 Australians within the combine. No Indian discovered a spot within the ICC’s ladies’s crew of the 12 months. Athapaththu was additionally named captain of the ladies’s T20I crew of the 12 months.

Check crew of the 12 months: Usman Khawaja, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kane Williamson, Joe Root, Travis Head, Ravindra Jadeja, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins (capt), R Ashwin, Mitchell Starc, Stuart Broad

ODI crew of the 12 months: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Travis Head, Virat Kohli, Daryl Mitchell, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Marco Jansen, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami

T20I crew of the 12 months: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Phil Salt, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Mark Chapman, Sikandar Raza, Alpesh Ramjani, Mark Adair, Ravi Bishnoi, Richard Ngarava, Arshdeep Singh

Ladies’s ODI crew of the 12 months: Chamari Athapaththu, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney (wk), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Ashleigh Gardner, Annabel Sutherland, Nadine de Klerk, Le Tahuhu, Nahida Akter

Ladies’s T20I crew of the 12 months: Chamari Athapaththu (capt), Beth Mooney (wk), Laura Wolvaardt, Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Megan Schutt