Last Updated: January 25, 2023, 22:27 IST
Tahlia McGrath (IANS Photo)
Tahlia scored 435 runs in 16 matches at a mean of 62.14 and picked 13 wickets together with her tempo bowling in 2022
Australia’s Tahlia McGrath on Wednesday was named the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year for 2022. She grew to become the fourth Australian girls cricketer after Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy to win the coveted award.
Tahlia scored 435 runs in 16 matches at a mean of 62.14 and picked 13 wickets together with her tempo bowling in 2022. She noticed off competitors from India opener Smriti Mandhana, Pakistan’s off-spin all-rounder Nida Dar and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine on her strategy to profitable the award.
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“It’s an unbelievable honour to be named the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, particularly with so many unbelievable gamers internationally taking the sport to the following degree,” Tahlia said.
“It’s been a great year for the team in the T20 format, winning the first-ever women’s cricket gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and beating India at home; this is a really nice way to cap it off,” she added.
Since her T20I debut in October 2021, Tahlia had a meteoric rise in 2022 within the shortest format. One of essentially the most thrilling skills round, she amassed 128 runs in 5 matches for Australia to take the gold medal, averaging 42.66 and is presently the top-ranked T20I batter.
She began 2022 with a bang in opposition to England within the Women’s Ashes sequence opener in Adelaide. She made a quick-fire unbeaten 91, her highest T20I rating, off simply 49 balls. Her entertaining innings was studded with 13 fours and a six.
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Prior to that, Tahlia additionally made an impression with the ball as she returned 3/26 from her 4 overs, limiting England to 169/4. However, the way in which she took the assault and batted fearlessly, the full appeared under par, as she together with skipper Meg Lanning chased it down with 18 balls to spare.
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