NEW DELHI: India’s maverick batter Suryakumar Yadav has gained the ICC Males’s T20I Cricketer of the Yr award for the second successive time. West Indies’ all-rounder captain Hayley Matthews was named the winner of the ICC Girls’s T20I Cricketer of the Yr award.
Suryakumar was additionally named the captain of ICC Males’s T20I staff of the 12 months for 2023. In 17 T20I innings, Suryakumar scored 733 runs at a mean of 48.86 and strike-rate of 155.95 to dominate run-scoring within the shortest format in 2023. He beat competitors from New Zealand’s Mark Chapman, Uganda’s Alpesh Ramjani and Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza to win the coveted honour.
His first T20I knock of the 12 months was a mere seven in opposition to Sri Lanka, however he shined within the subsequent two matches with scores of 51 (36) and 112 not out (51) in Pune and Rajkot respectively. An innings of 83 (44) in opposition to the West Indies in Windfall, Guyana, in August was adopted by a knock of 61 (45) in Lauderhill, Florida, USA.
Suryakumar additionally went on to take the T20I management position of a younger India aspect in direction of the tip of the 12 months. He made half-centuries in opposition to Australia (80 off 42 balls) and South Africa (56 from 36 balls), earlier than posting a century off simply 56 balls in India’s remaining T20I of the 12 months in Johannesburg.
“I’m thrilled to win the ICC Males’s T20I Cricketer of the Yr award for a second time. Profitable back-to-back awards for my performances on this format is one thing I may solely dream about after I made my worldwide debut. I’ve put my coronary heart and soul into taking part in for my nation and to see my efforts rewarded with such a prestigious honour may be very humbling.
“Congratulations are on account of my fellow nominees on their wonderful performances in 2023. I’d wish to thank my teammates and help employees for giving me the platform to succeed, and I need to additionally lengthen my gratitude to followers and voters worldwide for permitting me to have fun this accolade.
“I hope that I can proceed this success alongside my teammates for what shall be an enormous 12 months of T20I cricket forward, with the Males’s T20 World Cup within the USA and West Indies simply across the nook, ” mentioned Suryakumar in an ICC assertion.
Then again, identical to Suryakumar, Hayley additionally topped the run-scoring charts for the 12 months, racking up 700 runs in 14 matches at a strike charge of 132.32. She additionally picked up 19 wickets at a mean of 16.21 by way of her off-spin bowling.
Her extraordinary unbeaten 99 within the first recreation of the collection in opposition to Australia was overshadowed by her mind-blowing 132 in a run-chase of 213 in Sydney. Acing the world-record run-chase in ladies’s T20Is noticed Hayley break a number of information together with that of the very best particular person rating in a ladies’s T20I run-chase.
Hayley staved off shut competitors from Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu, Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry and England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone. “I’ve been fairly blessed to have a great 12 months carrying the West Indies colors, performing rather well and serving to the staff.”
“That is a kind of awards that I’m going to cherish endlessly and understanding that it will possibly make our West Indies followers residence within the Caribbean and world wide joyful is what motivates me to go on the market and do my finest, ” mentioned Hayley.
Her total tally of 310 runs within the collection in opposition to Australia is probably the most by any participant in a ladies’s T20I bilateral collection. Considerably, Hayley had a run of eight consecutive Participant of the Match awards, having additionally gained all three in a previous collection in Eire and two from ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup matches in South Africa in opposition to Eire and Pakistan.