Shamar Joseph of the West Indies bowls the Second One-Day Worldwide between the West Indies and England at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Nov.02, 2024 in Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.
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West Indies quick bowler Shamar Joseph has been one of many people nominated for the ICC’s prestigious Males’s Rising Cricket of the Yr award.
Joseph, Gus Atkinson of England, Kamindu Mendis of Sri Lanka, and Pakistan’s Saim Ayub have been introduced as the primary shortlist for its 2024 awards.
The 25-year-old Joseph took 29 wickets in eight Checks and hit the highlight in January when he took seven wickets within the second Check on the Gabba with an injured toe to bowl West Indies to their first Check victory in Australia in 27 years.
Enjoying his first Check collection, Joseph produced an unimaginable efficiency, claiming 13 wickets from two Checks, together with two five-wicket hauls. He grew to become the primary West Indian in 17 years to take a five-wicket haul on Check debut.
Joseph additionally performed a necessary position within the dwelling collection in opposition to Bangladesh and South Africa, ending with 12 wickets from three outings.
No gamers from the West Indies Ladies’s crew have been chosen for the Ladies’s Rising Cricket of the Yr award; the nominees embrace South African all-rounder Annerie Dercksen, Scotland’s Saskia Horley, India’s Shreyanka Patil, and Eire’s Freya Sargent.
The 2024 ICC awards comprise 12 particular person awards. Between Dec. 28 and 30, the ICC revealed shortlists in 9 classes.
A specialist panel of cricket writers and broadcasters has chosen the shortlist nominees based mostly on on-field performances and total achievements in worldwide cricket all through the calendar 12 months.
Followers can now vote for his or her favourite rising gamers at www.icc-cricket.com. Because the ICC reveals additional nominees, different classes shall be unlocked.
Fan voting outcomes, along with choices made by a distinguished panel of worldwide cricket media and the ICC Voting Academy, to determine the winner in every of the shortlisted classes.
Different classes included within the ICC Awards 2024 are the ICC Males’s and Ladies’s Affiliate Cricketers of the Yr and the ICC Umpire of the Yr.
As well as, the ICC Voting Academy may even choose 5 ICC Groups of the Yr, figuring out the standout XIs throughout males’s and ladies’s worldwide cricket throughout the 12 months.
Winners of the ICC Awards 2024 will be introduced in late January 2025.
