Tahlia McGrath has hailed her award because the ICC girls’s Twenty20 International cricketer of the 12 months as a “pretty special” reward after her spectacular 2022 breakthrough.
McGrath scored 435 runs in 16 matches at a median of 62.14 and took 13 wickets over the 12 months, incomes her the celebrated accolade forward of India’s star opener Smriti Mandhana, Pakistan allrounder Nida Dar and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine.
The award marks a spectacular rise from the 27-year-old from Adelaide, who solely made her T20I debut in October 2021 however has since continually shone within the shortest format of the sport.
She started the 12 months with a thumping unbeaten 91 off simply 49 balls and three wickets in opposition to England and ended it with extra distinctive performances on the tour to India.
“It’s an absolute honour to win this,” mentioned McGrath, reflecting that her spotlight had been profitable the Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham throughout which she scored 128 runs at a median of 42.66.
“I’m pretty fortunate to play in the team that I do and lucky to play with some of the best players in the world. This one’s pretty special.”
McGrath’s teammate Darcie Brown missed out on the ICC girls’s rising participant of the 12 months award after being on the shortlist, with the accolade going to a different tempo prospect, India’s Renuka Singh.
The equal males’s award went to South African Marco Jansen, the 22-year-old bowling allrounder who was voted forward of India’s Arshdeep Singh, Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran and New Zealand’s Finn Allen.
The 2.08m paceman Jansen has made his largest affect to this point in Test cricket, however will subsequent set his sights on troubling England within the ODI sequence that begins in Johannesburg on Friday.
India’s white-ball sensation Suryakumar Yadav took the lads’s T20I participant of the 12 months as the one batter to attain greater than 1000 runs within the format in 2022, with two centuries and 9 half-centuries.
On Thursday, the ultimate main awards will likely be introduced, with Australia’s Beth Mooney on the shortlist for ladies’s cricketer of the 12 months alongside England’s Nat Sciver, Indian Smriti Mandhana and New Zealander Amelia Kerr.
England’s Test captain Ben Stokes is the new favorite to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for males’s cricketer of the 12 months, forward of Pakistan’s Babar Azam, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza and New Zealand’s Tim Southee.
