DUBAI – The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday announced thenominees for the ICC Player of the Month Awards for March 2022 to recognisethe best performances from both male and female cricketers.
The ICC Men’s Player of the Month nominees include Pakistan skipper BabarAzam, West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite and Australia’ Pat Cummins.
ICC in a statement said that the Pakistan skipper impressed with hisbrilliant knocks during Australia’s historic tour of Pakistan.
In the recently concluded Bernaud-Qadir Trophy, Babar finished as thethird-highest run-scorer after Usman Khawaja and Abdullah Shafique. In hisfive outings, he scored 390 runs at an average of 78, including twohalf-centuries and a century. The highlight of the series was hismatch-saving 196 in the second innings of the second Test in Karachi.
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Babar continued his outstanding form in the ODI series, playing vitalknocks in the first two games. In the first ODI, he notched up a score of57 in Pakistan’s 88-run loss before scoring a brilliant 118 to leadPakistan to a six-wicket win in the second contest.
The nominees for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month include England’sSophie Ecclestone, Australia’s Rachael Haynes, and Laura Wolvaardt of SouthAfrica.
