LONDON, England, CMC – Following an outstanding 2024, West Indies’ T20 star Nicholas Pooran has been voted Wisden’s Main T20 Cricketer within the World.
After a record-breaking yr, the 29-year-old left-handed batsman earned the celebrated award that noticed him set a brand new mark for essentially the most T20 runs in a calendar yr.
His 2331 runs scored at a median of 40 eclipsed Mohammad Rizwan’s T20 document for a calendar yr of two,036, which had been set in 2021.
Pooran, who overtook Chris Gayle to develop into West Indies’ main T20 scorer, additionally hit essentially the most sixes in a calendar yr in T20 cricket.
He broke Gayle’s document of 135 sixes in 2015, smashing 139 sixes.
In the meantime, India’s quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah and opening batter Smriti Mandhana have been topped the World’s main female and male cricketers, respectively.
Bumrah gained the distinction within the males’s part after a stellar 2024 when he excelled throughout codecs and was named participant of the match as India gained the Twenty20 World Cup within the West Indies.
Mandhana gained the ladies’s honor after a prolific 2024 that included 5 hundred–4 in one-day internationals.
She additionally led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to their first Ladies’s Premier League title final yr.
