Stars from the ICC World Test Championship, the Commonwealth Games and ICC qualification pathway occasions make up the shortlists for the ICC Player of the Month awards for July.
The ICC Men’s Player of the Month for June, Jonny Bairstow, is nominated as soon as extra following stellar performances at the crease for England, whereas Sri Lanka’s Test debutant and spin maestro Prabath Jayasuriya finds himself on the shortlist for the first time. Completing the males’s lineup for July is France’s record-breaking teenage star, Gustav McKeon.
Nat Sciver is not any stranger to being nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award, and her second successive look on the shortlist follows her excellent performances throughout ODI and T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa. England’s Emma Lamb loved a really profitable month with the bat and ball and is known as on the shortlist which is accomplished with the addition of harmful India seamer Renuka Singh.
An impartial ICC Voting Academy* and followers round the world can now vote to resolve the winners, which can be introduced subsequent week. Fans registered are invited to solid their votes till Saturday.
ICC Men’s Player of the Month Nominees for July
Jonny Bairstow (ENG)
The winner of the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for June, Bairstow continued the place he left off with blistering performances in a number of codecs in July. He reasserted his chic type with the bat throughout his aspect’s ultimate Test showdown with India at Edgbaston, scoring 106 and 114 to say one other historic Test victory and seal a 2-2 sequence draw in opposition to the odds throughout extra ultimate day drama. His notable exploits with the bat throughout his aspect’s white ball sequence in opposition to South Africa, together with a 53-ball 90 in the first T20I, strengthens his declare to win a second successive award for July.
Prabath Jayasuriya (SL)
Sri Lanka’s Jayasuriya made a sensational begin to his Test profession in July, taking a rare 29 wickets throughout three matches at a mean of 20.37 in opposition to formidable opposition. Coming into the aspect following a humbling 10-wicket loss to Australia, Jayasuriya ripped via the touring line-up in the second Test, claiming six for 118 and 6 for 59 to safe an emphatic innings victory. This proved to be simply the starting of his prolific month, subsequently taking 9 wickets and eight wickets in the following two Tests in opposition to Pakistan to construct a robust case to be topped the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for July.
Gustav McKeon (FRANCE)
Very few cricketers will get pleasure from as thrilling a begin to their worldwide careers as France’s teenage star McKeon. The 18-year-old set data tumbling throughout the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Sub Regional Europe B Qualifier in Finland, as he turned the first player ever to register 4 successive half-centuries in his first 4 T20Is, changing two of these scores into centuries in opposition to Switzerland (109) and Norway (101). McKeon shone for France all through, amassing 377 runs in 5 T20I matches at a mean of 75.40 and with a vastly spectacular strike price of 164.62.
ICC Women’s Player of the Month Nominees for July
Emma Lamb (ENG)
Leading the line for England at the high of the order, Lamb was instrumental in guiding her aspect to a 3-0 ODI sequence whitewash over South Africa in July. Registering an outstanding rating of 102 in the first showdown at Northampton, Lamb adopted up with two additional half-centuries to complete the sequence as the main run scorer. The England all-rounder additionally displayed her bowling credentials, taking the key wickets of opposition skipper Sune Luus and the ever-dangerous Marizanne Kapp in the third ODI at Leicester.
Nat Sciver (ENG)
Nominated for the second successive month, and the third time in 4 months, Sciver continues to be a driving power for England. Her important contributions with each bat and ball enabled her aspect to document 3-0 sequence wins in opposition to South Africa in each the ODI and T20I sequence in July. Among her string of glorious performances was a haul of 4 for 59 in the first ODI that restricted the vacationers to a below-par rating, earlier than a strong 55 from 36 balls laid the basis for a momentum-building victory that set the tone for her aspect’s profitable month.
Renuka Singh (IND)
Singh celebrates her first nomination for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award due to a prolific month with the ball. Joint main wicket-taker in her aspect’s ODI sequence in Sri Lanka with seven wickets at a wonderful common of 12.85, she loved a blinding begin to India’s pursuit for Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham. Her standout particular person show throughout the month was arguably the method she dismantled Australia’s high order of their opening match, claiming 4 wickets for 18 runs, just for her aspect to be thwarted in dramatic vogue by Australia’s decrease order.
How it really works
The ICC Player of the Month Voting Process:
The three nominees for both class are shortlisted based mostly on performances from the first to the final day of every calendar month. The shortlist is then voted on by the impartial ICC Voting Academy* and followers round the world. The ICC Voting Academy contains outstanding members of the cricket fraternity together with well-known journalists, former gamers, broadcasters and members of the ICC Hall of Fame. The Voting Academy submit their votes by e-mail and maintain a 90 per cent share of the vote. Fans registered with the ICC can vote by way of the ICC web site, accounting for the remaining 10 per cent. Winners are introduced each second Monday of the month on ICC’s digital channels.
Voting Academy for ICC Player of the Month July 2022*:
Afghanistan: Hameed Qayoomi and Javed Hamim; Australia: Melinda Farrell and Lisa Sthalekar; Bangladesh: Mohammad Sekander Ali and Mejbah Ul Haq; England: Elizabeth Ammon and Lydia Greenway; Ireland: Ger Siggins and Clare Shillington; India: Lavanya Lakshmi Narayanan and Irfan Pathan; New Zealand: Jordan Oppert and Craig Cumming; Pakistan: Sawera Pasha and Sana Mir; South Africa: Firdose Moonda and JP Duminy; Sri Lanka: Azzam Ameen and Farveez Maharoof; West Indies: Daren Ganga and Merissa Aguilleira; Zimbabwe: Tristan Holme and Mpumelelo Mbangwa; Others: Ajit Vijaykumar and Dirk Nannes.
