The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) immediately unveiled the shortlists in competition for the ICC Males’s and Girls’s Participant of the Month awards for December 2024, celebrating the excellent particular person performances on the worldwide stage through the calendar month.
Following a gripping month of motion within the race to the ICC World Take a look at Championship Ultimate, the nominees for the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month comprise standout wicket-takers from India, Australia and South Africa.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah is nominated for the second month in succession after continued spells of harmful bowling in India’s efforts within the enthralling Border-Gavaskar Trophy collection in opposition to Australia. Victorious Australia skipper Pat Cummins additionally earns his method onto the shortlist following decisive bowling spells, as Australia edged forward with wins in Adelaide and Melbourne in December. Finishing the lineup is South Africa’s Dane Paterson, whose 13 wickets throughout two Exams helped South Africa develop into the primary staff to qualify for the WTC Ultimate at Lord’s in June.
Australia, South Africa and India are additionally represented among the many contenders for the ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month award.
Talismanic Indian batter Smriti Mandhana scored closely throughout December, notching notable scores in Australia and in opposition to the West Indies on house soil. Nonkululeko Mlaba is nominated for the primary time after historic wicket-taking feats in South Africa’s Take a look at in opposition to England at Bloemfontein. Australia’s all-round sensation Annabel Sutherland is the ultimate title on the shortlist after shining with the bat and ball through the month, hitting back-to-back centuries in opposition to India and New Zealand alongside helpful wickets.
An impartial ICC Voting Academy* and followers all over the world will now be invited to forged their votes to resolve the winners, which might be introduced subsequent week. Followers at the moment are capable of vote for his or her favorite performers at icc-cricket.com/awards.
ICC Males’s Participant of the Month Nominees for December:
Jasprit Bumrah (IND)
The world’s primary ranked Take a look at bowler ended the yr as strongly as he carried out via it, with 22 wickets throughout his three Take a look at outings in December. With Australia rising in confidence through the collection, Bumrah was the first resisting drive, starring in spells of 4 for 61 in Adelaide, six for 76 in Brisbane, and within the nine-wicket efficiency in Melbourne which noticed him attain the very best ranking factors tally by any Indian bowler in historical past. Bumrah might be hoping to win his second Participant of the Month crown, and elsewhere, declare the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Males’s Cricketer of the 12 months within the ICC Awards 2024 following a stunning yr.
Pat Cummins (Aus)
Australia’s captain impressed a memorable fightback from the 1-0 collection deficit with stirring performances in December’s Exams that featured 144 runs and 17 wickets at 17.64. After the frustration of Perth, final yr’s ICC Males’s Cricketer of the 12 months ripped via the Indian batting lineup within the second innings in Adelaide, taking 5 for 57 to safe a ten-wicket victory from which they prospered. Arguably his spotlight got here in Melbourne, the place, after his first innings 49, he helped his facet get well from 91 for six with helpful decrease order runs (41) earlier than eradicating India’s prime three batters as Australia gained by 184 runs and took the higher hand within the thrilling collection.
Dane Paterson (SA)
The South African seamer is nominated for the primary time for the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month award, and does so after 13 wickets on a profitable return to the Proteas Take a look at facet. Recalled for the second Take a look at in opposition to Sri Lanka in Gqeberha, Paterson instantly repaid the religion with a Participant of the Match efficiency, claiming his first Take a look at five-for with the wickets of Dhananjaya de Silva, Kusal Mendis and Lahiru Kumara in a single over in his first innings return of 5 for 71. The spell proved essential within the 109-run win and Paterson backed it up with extra heroics with a probing 5 for 61 within the nail-biting victory over Pakistan that noticed South Africa seal their place at Lord’s in what might be their first ICC World Take a look at Championship Ultimate.
ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month Nominees for December:
Smriti Mandhana (IND)
The Indian opener is hoping to win her second ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month crown after 463 runs throughout a calendar month full of ODI and T20I motion. The 28-year-old hit 270 runs in her six 50-over contests, headlined by a chic 105 in opposition to Australia at Perth. On the again of that efficiency, Mandhana then took aside the travelling West Indies bowling unit, hitting half-centuries in three successive T20Is and two additional ODIs, taking house the Participant of the Collection prize within the former.
Nonkululeko Mlaba (SA)
The South African strike bowler wrote her title into the historical past books in December due to a memorable show in opposition to England of their solitary Take a look at at Bloemofontein. Following a modest displaying within the ODIs that preceded the competition, Mlaba got here to life within the longest format, extracting flip from the floor to take 4 wickets and a run out within the first innings, earlier than six extra within the second noticed her develop into the primary South African feminine to take ten wickets in a Take a look at match.
Annabel Sutherland (AUS)
The 23-year-old all-rounder loved a fruitful finish to 2024, serving to her earn nominations for each the ICC Girls’s Cricketer of the 12 months and the Girls’s ODI Cricketer of the 12 months. December started with wickets in Brisbane and the seamer took 4 for 39 in a cushty victory within the second ODI in opposition to India. The third ODI noticed Sutherland hit three figures, smashing 110 in 98 balls to say the Participant of the Collection, and she or he adopted that efficiency with one other century throughout the Tasman Sea, putting a brisk, unbeaten 105 in 81 balls of their opening victory over New Zealand. The second ODI noticed her hit one other 42 runs and take three wickets, as she gained one other Participant of the Collection prize.
The ICC Participant of the Month Voting Course of:
The three nominees for both class are shortlisted based mostly on performances from the primary to the final day of every calendar month. The shortlist is then voted on by the impartial ICC Voting Academy* and followers all over the world. The ICC Voting Academy contains distinguished members of the cricket fraternity together with well-known journalists, former gamers, broadcasters and members of the ICC Corridor of Fame. The Voting Academy submit their votes by electronic mail and maintain a 90 per cent share of the vote. Followers registered with the ICC can vote through the ICC web site, accounting for the remaining 10 per cent. Winners are introduced each second Monday of the month on ICC’s digital channels.
Voting Academy for ICC Participant of the Month:
Afghanistan: Javed Hamim; Australia: Daniel Cherny and Lisa Sthalekar; Bangladesh: Mazhar Uddin and Md Ariful Islam Roney; England: Chris Shares and Lydia Greenway; Eire: Ger Siggins and Clare Shillington; India: S Gomesh and Shivani Gupta; New Zealand: Craig Cumming; Pakistan: Sawera Pasha and Sana Mir; South Africa: Zaahier Adams and Ashwell Prince; Sri Lanka: Azzam Ameen and Farveez Maharoof; West Indies: Daren Ganga and Stacy Ann King; Zimbabwe: Lawrence Trusida; Others: Darren Allan Kyeyune and Kyle Coetzer.