LONDON, CMC – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews has been short-listed for the Worldwide Cricket Council’s Girls’s Twenty20 Worldwide Cricketer-of-the-Yr award.
The free-scoring 25-year-old joins Sri Lankan all-rounder Chamari Athapaththu, England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, and excellent Australian fast-bowling all-rounder Ellyse Perry because the gamers up for the consideration.
Matthews proved probably the most dominant all-rounders within the shortest format this yr, scoring 700 runs from 14 innings whereas averaging 63 with the bat and snaring 19 wickets.
The fashionable right-hander headlined her aspect’s three-match sequence towards Australia final October, plundering 310 runs at a mean of 155. She smashed a career-best 132 from 64 balls as West Indies chased down a report 213 in North Sydney.
She additionally topped her aspect bowling with 5 wickets at 17 runs apiece.
Matthews, who made her worldwide debut as a young person, was appointed captain final June, changing veteran Stafanie Taylor.
In the meantime, the 33-year-old Athapaththu averaged 31 with the bat and picked up eight wickets from 16 matches, whereas Ecclestone, 24, completed the calendar yr with 23 wickets at a mean of ten.
The 33-year-old Perry, a two-time former ICC Girls’s Cricketer-of-the-Yr honor winner, averaged 45 with the bat from 14 outings whereas selecting up six wickets at 9 runs apiece.
The winner of the award will probably be introduced later this month.
Associated
