Staff India’s top-order batter Suryakumar Yadav has gained the ICC Males’s T20I Cricketer of the 12 months 2022 award, the apex cricket board introduced on Wednesday, January 25.
Suryakumar had a stellar 2022, breaking a string of information and setting a benchmark within the shortest format. He left behind the likes of Sam Curran, Pakistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan and Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza to brush the highest honour.
Popularly referred to as SKY, the 32-year-old grew to become solely the second participant in T20I historical past to make greater than 1,000 runs in a calendar yr, scoring 1164 runs at a strike fee of 187.43. He additionally hit two tons and 9 half-centuries through the yr.
He even smashed 68 sixes, simply essentially the most recorded by anybody in a yr within the format’s historical past.
After being voted the ICC Males’s T20I Cricketer of the 12 months 2022, Suryakumar took to Twitter and thanked his followers for showering their love and blessings in the direction of him.
“Grateful. Gratedful. Blessed,” he captioned the video.
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𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙛𝙪𝙡. 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡. 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/eV4n2r5pyG
— Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar) January 25, 2023
Then again, Australia all-rounder Tahlia McGrath gained the Ladies’s T20I Cricketer of the 12 months 2022 award.
With a number of notable performances within the format through the yr 2022, she amassed 435 runs in 16 video games and picked 13 wickets as effectively. Her highest rating of 91 not out got here off simply 46 deliveries towards England; she returned to bag three wickets for 26 runs.
McGrath beat the likes of Smriti Mandhana, Pakistan’s bowling all-rounder Nida Dar and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine to high the Ladies’s class.
Expressed her delight, the Aussie instructed ICC.television: “It’s an unimaginable honour to be named the ICC Ladies’s T20I Cricketer of the 12 months, particularly with so many unimaginable gamers internationally taking to the sport to the subsequent stage.
Mc Grath added: “It’s been an incredible yr for the workforce within the T20 format, successful the primary ever ladies’s cricket gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games and beating India at residence; this can be a very nice option to cap it off.”