England spinner Sophie Ecclestone has been shortlisted for girls’s T20 participant of the yr within the International Cricket Council’s 2023 awards.
The left-armer, the world’s primary ranked bowler in each white-ball codecs, claimed 23 wickets in 11 video games final yr at a median of 10.60 regardless of spending 4 months out with a dislocated shoulder.
The 24-year-old was the highest wicket-taker on the T20 World Cup in February with 11, however couldn’t encourage England past the semi-final stage.
- Sophie Ecclestone (Eng)
- Hayley Mathews (WI)
- Ellyse Perry (Aus)
- Chamari Athapaththu (SL)
She is up towards three high-class all-rounders, with Australia’s Ellyse Perry, West Indian Hayley Mathews and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu additionally nominated.
Ecclestone’s team-mate Lauren Bell can also be up for an award after making the minimize for girls’s rising participant of the yr. The tall seamer established herself as a first-choice throughout all three types, choosing up a complete of twenty-two wickets.
She goes up towards Scotland’s Darcey Carter, who made 224 runs and took 13 T20 wickets in her first six months as a full worldwide, Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield and Bangladesh’s Marufa Akter.
The males’s T20 shortlist included 2022 winner Suryakumar Yadav of India, New Zealand’s Mark Chapman, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza and Uganda’s Alpesh Ramjani – who helped his facet qualify for his or her first ever World Cup.
Gerald Coetzee (South Africa), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka) and Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand) compete for the boys’s rising participant. Nominees for Test and ODI awards can be launched later this week.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk