South African batter Keegan Petersen claimed the ICC males’s participant of the month award for January. Amongst girls, England skipper Heather Knight received the award.
South Africa batter Keegan Petersen wins ICC Participant of the Month for January (Reuters Picture)
HIGHLIGHTSKeegan Petersen claimed ICC males’s participant of the month awardEngland skipper Heather Knight received the award amongst womenPetersen performed a pivotal function in SA’s sequence win vs India
The World Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday introduced Heather Knight and Keegan Petersen because the winners of the ICC Gamers of the Month Award for January 2022.
Petersen pipped compatriot Dewald Brevis and Bangladesh speedy bowler Ebadot Hossain to assert the ICC males’s participant of the month award for January. Amongst girls, Knight received the award. Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu and West Indies megastar Deandra Dottin have been the opposite contenders.
Petersen performed a pivotal function in South Africa’s 2-1 sequence win towards India. In the second one Take a look at, he scored 62 within the first innings, serving to the Proteas acquire a narrow lead, and of their chase of 240, he performed a the most important 28-run knock. Within the ultimate Take a look at, Petersen scored a fifty in each and every innings, together with a excellent 82 in a difficult fourth-innings chase of 212.
He ended the sequence because the easiest run-scorer with 276 runs and was once named the participant of the sequence.
“With the hype of the sequence and the prime expectancies, the composure he confirmed whilst batting in a pivotal No. 3 place was once merely staggering,” mentioned former South Africa megastar and member of the balloting panel JP Duminy.
Knight captained England within the drawn one-off Ashes Take a look at towards Australia in Canberra and completed because the easiest run-getter. Within the first innings, Knight rescued England, scoring an unbeaten 168. It was once the second-highest rating through a captain within the historical past of ladies’s Checks.
“168 is the easiest Take a look at rating through any feminine English batter towards Australia in Australia,” former India speedy bowler Irfan Pathan, a member of the balloting panel, mentioned.
“It is usually the second-highest rating in girls’s Checks in Australia. Her innings is made much more outstanding given its significance in securing the draw for England in the one Take a look at.”
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