Cricket West Indies (CWI) has provided its heartfelt congratulations to West Indies ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews on her outstanding achievement of being named the ICC Girls’s T20I Cricketer of the Yr 2023.
This prestigious honor is a testomony to her distinctive expertise, consistency, and excellent performances in each batting and bowling all year long.
Matthews’ performances in 2023 had been nothing in need of phenomenal, showcasing her means to impression matches considerably. Her achievements went past statistics; they had been about her knack for turning video games round and delivering when her staff wanted her most.
In 2023, Matthews demonstrated her prowess with the bat, amassing a historic 700 runs at a putting fee of 132.32. This marked the primary time a ladies’s participant reached such a outstanding determine in a single calendar 12 months. One of many standout innings of the 12 months was her good 132 runs within the historic 213-run chase in opposition to Australia within the second T20 Worldwide (T20I) on the North Sydney Oval, following her unbeaten 99 within the first match.
A complete of 310 runs
Within the third T20I, she added 79 runs, accumulating a complete of 310 runs, the best by any participant in a ladies’s T20I bilateral collection. Matthews showcased a mix of conventional and modern photographs and displayed her means to anchor innings or speed up as required, establishing herself as one of the vital feared batters in T20I cricket.
Her bowling performances had been equally spectacular, as her right-arm off-spin deliveries, identified for his or her flight and switch, troubled top-order batters from varied groups. Matthews claimed 19 wickets with an economic system fee of 6.84.
Matthews’ recognition because the ICC Girls’s T20I Cricketer of the Yr 2023 is just not solely a private achievement but additionally a big enhance for West Indies ladies’s cricket. It highlights the distinctive expertise and potential throughout the staff and the Caribbean area, serving as an inspiration for aspiring cricketers.
Matthews expressed her gratitude, stating, “It’s good to see all of the laborious work paying off. It’s been a protracted two or three years to get up to now, it’s been very nice to have a great time with the bat and the ball within the final 12 months to assist the staff as greatest as I can. I’m very grateful for this award, and it’s one thing that rising up I noticed my function fashions reaching so to win one myself positively means rather a lot.”
Member of the ICC Girls’s T20I Workforce of the Yr 2023
Moreover, Matthews was acknowledged as a member of the ICC Girls’s T20I Workforce of the Yr 2023.
CWI’s Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe, praised Hayley’s excellent achievements, saying, “Hayley has been outstanding by any commonplace and has embodied management by instance. Past her apparent expertise, her professionalism and work ethic actually underpin her efficiency and needs to be a supply of inspiration to aspiring cricketers within the West Indies and the world over.”
As Hayley Matthews continues her journey in worldwide cricket, her sights are set on extra victories and accolades. With the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh and different worldwide fixtures on the horizon this 12 months, Matthews is undoubtedly wanting to proceed her spectacular kind.
