West Indies: Ladies’s skipper Hayley Mathews and Wicket Keeper Batsman Nicholas Pooran change into the one gamers of the West Indies who’ve been chosen for the Ladies’s T20I groups for 2023 and the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Males’s crew, respectively.
Matthews was super all year long. She scored 700 runs at a median of 63.63 with a strike price of 132.00 in 2023, whereas additionally claiming 19 wickets at an financial system of 6.84
In September, Matthews set the world on fireplace along with her superb performances within the bilateral cricket sequence towards Australia. Within the first sport of the sequence, she scored 99 not out off 74 balls with 12 fours and 4 sixes.
She then went on to high that efficiency by scoring 132 runs off 64 balls to steer a profitable run chase for the Windies in match 2 of the sequence. This run chase of 213 was a world–report run chase. She broke the report for the best particular person rating in a girls’s T20I run-chase.
Total within the chase Matthews scored 310 runs. She additionally closed out 2023 as the number one ranked All Rounder in Ladies’s T20 Cricket. She can be ranked fifth in batting and eleventh in bowling.
Pooran as nicely was stable all year long. He scored 384 runs at a strike price of 163. He had some excellent performances all year long. 41 off 19 towards South Africa in Johannesburg, 67 off 40 towards India and 82 off 45 towards England in Grenada had been just some of his excellent performances for the Windies in 2023. Pooran is ranked twelfth within the ICC Males’s T20 batting rankings.
The groups are chosen by ICC to honour the efficiency of the gamers who shined in a specific yr. In 2023, a number of gamers from completely different nations turned a part of these two groups.
The followers of West Indies Staff have expressed satisfaction with the choice and stated that these gamers are taking the legacy of the crew forward. Netizens stated that the efficiency of those two gamers have showcased true essence of West Indies cricket.
In addition they demanded full help from West Indies Cricket authorities for these gamers and stated that they have to be given a full likelihood to take the crew forward in a number of championships.
FULL TEAMS
ICC Males’s T20I Staff of the 12 months
Suryakumar Yadav (c) (India), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Phil Salt (England), Nicholas Pooran (wk) (West Indies), Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Mark Adair (Eire), Ravi Bishnoi (India), Richard Ngarava (Zimbabwe), Arshdeep Singh (India).
ICC Ladies’s T20I Staff of the 12 months
Chamari Athapaththu (c) (Sri Lanka), Beth Mooney (wk) (Australia), Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Ash Gardner (Australia), Deepti Sharma (India), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Megan Schutt (Australia).
