Every year the International Cricket Council (ICC) honors the players for their best game and gives awards in different categories.
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The International Cricket Council (ICC), the apex body of cricket, gives awards to players in different categories every year. All the players and their fans wait for these awards. This wait of all these people is about to end as ICC will announce the winners of these awards from today. The ICC will announce the names of the winners in different categories from January 23 to 26. ICC will give awards to the players on the basis of last year’s performance. These awards will be given in both male and female category.
The ICC has given information about this by issuing a statement. The ICC said that it will give awards in 13 categories, which include Sir Garfield Sobers ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, Rachel Flint Trophy Women’s Cricketer of the Year. The ICC will look at the performance made between January 1 and December 31, 2022 for these awards.
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The ICC will first announce the ICC Men’s and Women’s T20 Team of the Year on 23 January. The next day the best ODI team of the year will be announced in both these categories. On the same day, the ICC will also announce the best men’s Test team of the year. On January 25, the ICC will give awards to the players for their individual performance. The ICC will give awards on this day in the categories of Associate, T20I and Emerging Cricketer of the Year.
January 26 will be the last day for the announcement of the ICC Awards. On this day, the ICC will also announce the names of the best umpire of the year, the best male cricketer and female cricketer of the year in ODIs. Apart from this, the name of the best male Test cricketer of the year will also be announced on this day. On the same day, ICC will also announce the awards of Sir Garfield Sobers ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, Rachel Flint Trophy Women’s Cricketer of the Year. The ICC Spirit of Cricket Award will also be announced on this day.
eyes on these indians
Now talking about the Indian players involved in the race to win these awards, five players from India are involved in this. Suryakumar Yadav showed a great game in T20 last year. He is definitely in the race to become the best T20 cricketer of the year. He scored 1151 runs in 30 innings last year. During this, his average was 47.95 and the strike rate was 188.37. He also scored two centuries.
India’s left-arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh can bet in the Emerging Player of the Year, who bowled strongly in his first T20 World Cup. Apart from them, two women cricketers of India, Renuka Singh and Yastika Bhatia can make this title in their name in the women’s category. Whereas Smriti Mandhana is in the race for Women’s Cricketer of the Year. Mandhana was selected as the best female cricketer by the ICC last year. He is in the race for this award for the second time in a row. In the year 2022, Mandhana has scored 594 runs in T20 and 696 runs in ODIs.
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The ICC has told that it had conducted voting for these awards in which many representatives of the media were present. Apart from this, the cricket fans of the entire World Cup also participated in it.