Pakistan captain Babar Azam and England allrounder Nat Sciver have been named because the ICC Cricketers of the Year.
Babar received the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy as males’s 2022 winner, rewarded for an additional stellar 12 months by which he captained his aspect to the T20 World Cup last in Australia and scored greater than 2500 worldwide runs in all codecs.
He’s the second winner from Pakistan in consecutive years, following his teammate Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Babar additionally collected the ICC award as ODI Cricketer of the Year.
He took the principle prize from a shortlist that featured Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, New Zealand’s Tim Southee and England captain Ben Stokes, who earned the substantial comfort of being named males’s Test Cricketer of the Year.
Sciver did the identical double as Babar, being awarded the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as ladies’s cricketer of the 12 months whereas additionally being named ladies’s ODI participant of the 12 months.
She took the large prize forward of Australian batter Beth Mooney, Indian Smriti Mandhana and New Zealander Amelia Kerr.
Sciver, 30, scored 1346 runs and took 22 wickets from 33 worldwide matches in 2022, whereas ending the World Cup because the match’s third-highest scorer.
She scored an outstanding unbeaten 148 not out within the last defeat by Australia and likewise claimed her maiden Test century towards South Africa in June.
Richard Illingworth was named the ICC Umpire of the Year and Nepal wicketkeeper Aasif Sheikh was honoured within the Spirit of Cricket class.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
