India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana was on Wednesday nominated for the ICC Women`s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2022 award for the second straight time.
Apart from her, Pakistan`s off-spin all-rounder Nida Dar, New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine and Australia`s fast-bowling all-rounder Tahlia McGrath have additionally been nominated for the honour.
Smriti loved run in T20Is this 12 months, smashing the quickest fifty by an Indian girl (off simply 23 balls), to breaching the 2500-run mark in T20Is, scoring 594 runs in 23 matches, together with 5 half-centuries, in 2022.
The left-handed opener left her mark on the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the Women`s T20 Asia Cup in Bangladesh, and a memorable five-match T20I dwelling sequence towards Australia in direction of the business finish of a fruitful 12 months.
Her most enjoyable innings of 2022 got here within the second T20I of the bilateral sequence towards Australia in December. In entrance of over 47,000 spectators – the very best turnout for a girls`s cricket match in India – on the DY Patil stadium in Mumbai, Smriti smacked a 49-ball 79 whereas chasing Australia`s 187/1.
She was India`s top-scorer within the match, taking the match to the very finish as India arrange a Super Over conflict after levelling the scores at 187/5. In the Super Over, India made a aggressive whole of 20/1, out of which Smriti scored 13 off the final three balls. India then restricted Australia to 16/1, sealing a memorable win in entrance of a roaring dwelling crowd.
Nida, Pakistan`s veteran all-rounder, impressed extra with the bat this 12 months. She struck three fifty-plus scores this 12 months: an unbeaten fifty on the Commonwealth Games, related exploits towards India on the Asia Cup, and a well-made 61 at dwelling towards Ireland in November.
She was distinctive within the Women`s Asia Cup through which she amassed 145 runs in six matches, at an excellent common of 72.50, and in addition claimed eight wickets at a meagre 14.87 runs a bit.
Nida`s greatest efficiency of the 12 months within the shortest format was towards arch-rivals India within the Asia Cup. After a shaky begin, with Pakistan struggling at 33/3 on the finish of the Powerplay, skipper Bismah Maroof was joined by Nida. Together they stitched an important partnership of 76 runs. Even after Bismah fell, Dar saved the momentum going with a fiery knock. She smashed 56 not out from simply 37 balls with 5 fours and a six, serving to her facet publish 137/6.
With the ball, she gave away 23 runs from her 4 overs, and claimed essential wickets of Jemimah Rodrigues and India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, as Pakistan cruised to their first-ever win over India in girls`s T20Is in six years. Nida was adjudged Player of the Match for her match-winning contributions.
Sophie ends the 12 months on the prime of the all-rounder rankings, as 2022 was a 12 months the place she proved again and again why she is without doubt one of the greatest all-rounders of the sport. Under her management, New Zealand gained 11 out of 14 video games this 12 months, together with one Super Over win over West Indies within the fourth T20I in Antigua.
In that Super Over win, Sophie was dismissed early, run out for 13. But she was good with the ball, returning 3-29 from her four-over spell as West Indies went on to degree the scores on the final ball with only one wicket in hand.
In the Super Over, West Indies made 15/0, and the onus was on the skilled duo of Suzie Bates and Sophie, to take their facet throughout the road and seal the sequence. Devine despatched the primary ball for a six, she then ran a two and a single.
New Zealand nonetheless wanted six runs to win with two balls remaining. Sophie ran a two on the following ball, and solely a boundary on the final ball might have sealed the deal for the White Ferns. Devine hit a six off the final ball, and never solely gained the match for her crew but additionally gained the Player of the Match award for her match-defining exploits.
Since her T20I debut in October 2021, Tahlia had a meteoric rise this 12 months within the shortest format. One of probably the most thrilling skills round, she amassed 128 runs in 5 matches for Australia to take the gold medal, averaging 42.66 and is at present the top-ranked T20I batter.
Tahlia began 2022 with a bang towards 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.
Prior to that, she additionally made an affect with the ball as she returned 3/26 from her 4 overs, proscribing England to 169/4. However, the best way she took the assault and batted fearlessly, the entire appeared beneath par, as she together with skipper Meg Lanning chased it down with 18 balls to spare.
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