FILE PHOTO: Cricket – Fourth Check – Australia v India – Melbourne Cricket Floor, Melbourne, Australia – December 29, 2024 India’s Jasprit Bumrah celebrates with KL Rahul and teammates after taking the wicket of Australia’s Travis Head James Ross/AAP Picture by way of REUTERS
Indian quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah has gained the ICC Males’s Check Cricketer of the 12 months award after he completed 2024 with a wealthy haul of 71 wickets in 13 Check matches.
Bumrah bowled a staggering 357 overs within the red-ball format and picked up 71 wickets at an impressive common of 14.92.
He was solely the fourth Indian bowler to bag greater than 70 wickets in a calendar 12 months after Ravichandran Ashwin, Anil Kumble and Kapil Dev.
Bumrah has made an incredible impression since he returned to Check cricket in late 2023 after an extended layoff from a again damage. He completed the 12 months as a number one wicket-taker in Check cricket adopted by Gus Atkinson of England with 52 wickets in 11 Check matches. The 31-year-old right-hander rounded off an ideal 12 months with 32 wickets in 5 Check matches in opposition to Australia, the place he earned the Participant of the Collection award.
Afghanistan’s all-rounder, Azmatullah Omarzai was named ODI participant of the 12 months after ending the 12 months with 417 runs whereas selecting up 17 wickets in 14 white-ball video games.
The 24-year-old Omarzai completed the 12 months as Afghanistan’s second-highest scorer in ODIs behind Rahmanullah Gurbaz and helped his nation win 4 of the 5 bilateral sequence in a calendar 12 months that included victories over South Africa and Bangladesh.
Indian left-handed batter Smriti Mandhana accomplished an ideal 12 months by incomes the ICC’s ladies’s ODI participant of the 12 months award as she scored 747 runs in 13 ODIs.
Mandhana’s run outcomes put her forward of Laura Wolvaardt with 697, Tammy Beaumont with 554 and Hayley Matthews with 469.
Mandhana additionally scored a ladies’s file of 4 ODI centuries in a calendar 12 months, hitting 95 fours and 6 sixes.
