DUBAI – Pakistan flamboyant batter Mohammad Rizwan has been named as theICC Men’s Player respectively of the Month for September, theInternational Cricket Council announced on Monday.
The top cricket body said the 30-year-old beat competition from Indianspinner Axar Patel and emerging Australian player Cameron Green, who bothhad a month to remember.
ICC said Rizwan was in stunning form last month, churning out some topperformances in shortest format of the game. The top T20I player continuedhis domination and put his name on the shortlist for the Player of theMonth.
Expressing gratitude over the feat, Rizwan said “I would like to thankAlmighty Allah and express my heartfelt delight to all that enabled me toachieve this award…I want to give my high appreciation to all my teammatesas they made things easy for me. These achievements boost your confidence.I am happy with my performance and I would like to take this momentumforward in Australia”.
He also dedicated award to the Pakistani people who are affected by thefloods and other disaster, expressing hope that this will bring smiles ontheir faces.
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Pakistani opener scored seven half tons in ten games last month, hefinished Asia Cup with yet another fifty and as the leading run-scorer butMen in Green failed to lift the trophy.
Rizwan registered four scores of 60+ to help the home side in seven-matchseries against England. Despite playing one less game, the star platerstill finished the series as the highest run-getter with 316 runs at anaverage of 63.20 while going at 138.60.
