Hayley Matthews of West Indies performs a shot throughout the first one-day worldwide cricket match in opposition to Pakistan on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.
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West Indies Captain, Hayley Matthews, has been voted the Worldwide Cricket Council’s Girls’s Twenty20 Participant of the Yr 2023.
The 25-year-old was up in opposition to Sri Lankan Chamari Athapaththu, England’s Sophie Ecclestone and Australia’s Ellyse Perry, and was chosen following voting by the ICC Voting Academy and world followers.
Matthews was in dominant type throughout the 12 months of 2023, plundering an historic 700 runs with a strike-rate of 132.33, at a mean of 63 from 14 matches, and scoring 100 and 4 fifties. The primary time a ladies’s participant had reached this determine in a single calendar 12 months.
The spotlight innings of the 12 months was the 132 runs she scored within the historic 213 run-chase in opposition to Australia within the second T20 Worldwide (T201) on the North Sydney Oval, Australia, this adopted 99 not out within the first match. Within the third T20I she struck 79 to build up 310 runs, essentially the most by any participant in a ladies’s T20I bilateral collection.
She took on the opposition’s bowlers with a mixture of conventional and revolutionary pictures. Her capacity to anchor the innings and speed up when required makes her some of the feared batters within the T201 circuit.
Bowling-wise, Matthews was equally spectacular. Her right-arm off-spin deliveries, characterised by their flight and switch, baffled many top-order batters throughout varied groups. She picked up 19 wickets with an economic system price of 6.84.
“I’ve been fairly blessed to have a great 12 months sporting the West Indies colors, performing very well and serving to the workforce,” Matthews mentioned.
“That is a type of awards that I’m going to cherish endlessly and figuring out that it will probably make our West Indies followers dwelling within the Caribbean and around the globe completely satisfied is what motivates me to go on the market and do my finest.”
She added, “It’s good to see all of the arduous work paying off. It’s been a protracted two or three years to get up to now, it’s been re- ally good to have a great time with the bat and the ball within the final 12 months to assist the workforce as finest as I can. I’m very grateful for this award and it’s one thing that rising up I noticed my function fashions attaining so to win one myself undoubtedly means quite a bit.”
Matthews, made her worldwide debut at 16 12 months previous and loved a run of eight consecutive Participant-of-the-Match awards, having received two within the T20 World Cup in South Africa final February, and all three within the subsequent two T20 collection in opposition to Ire- land and Australia.
Matthews grew to become simply the second West Indian, after former Captain Stafanie Taylor in 2015, to win the celebrated award.
Earlier this week, she was additionally named within the ICC T201 Staff-of-the-Yr.
CWI’s Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe congratulated Matthews on her award saying: “Hayley has been remark- in a position by any normal and has embodied management by instance. Past her apparent expertise, her professionalism and work ethic definitely underpin her efficiency and ought to be a supply of inspiration to aspiring cricketers within the West Indies and the world over.”
