Cummins and Seaver-Brant are ICC Cricketer of the Year
Australian captain Pat Cummins has been named ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year for the first time. Apart from leadership, he was also in great rhythm with bat and ball. And that's why he got this great achievement of ICC's best of the year. In addition to his personal performance, leadership is an inspiration in discussions. Won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.
2023 captain of the year Cummins' brilliant and sharp leadership played a major role in Australia's record sixth title in the ODI World Cup held in India in October-November.
Another chapter of Cummins' success ended the year with a 10-wicket haul in the Melbourne Test against Pakistan. He became the first captain in the long history of Melbourne Cricket Ground to take 10 wickets in a Test.
ICC, the highest governing body of world cricket, announced the names of the best male and female cricketers of the year 2023 on Thursday.
Cummins beat teammate Travis Head, India's batting great Virat Kohli and spinning all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in the battle for the best.
Cummins became the fifth Australian to be named the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year for the first time, following teammates Ricky Ponting, Mitchell Johnson, Michael Clarke and Steven Smith.
Cummins has performed well ever since taking over the leadership of Australia in all three formats.
After this achievement, Aji Skipper said in an interview, "This is a great honor. It's been a big year with great team performances.
It means a lot to me to receive a personal honor and I am very touched. It will remain above in case of individual awards.''
Cummins took 59 wickets in 24 matches in international cricket last year. Where he took the second highest 42 catches in Tests in 11 matches; 5 wickets in an innings thrice and 10 wickets once in a match.
He took 17 wickets in 13 matches in ODIs. He did not play any T20 in 2023. He scored 422 runs with the bat in both versions.
In addition, England's all-rounder Nat Seaver-Brant won the 'Rachel Flint' trophy for the best female cricketer of the year. The ICC has confirmed this with a notification on Thursday.
She defeated Chamari Atapattu of Sri Lanka, Ashley Gardner of Australia and Beth Mooney in the fight. The 31-year-old Seaver-Brant won the award for the second time in a row.
Seaver-Brant scored 894 runs in 18 matches in international cricket last year. Pace bowling took 9 wickets. He played only 6 matches and scored 393 runs at an average of 131. Where he scored a century in all three matches. This right-handed batsman scored two fifties in two Tests in the year.
She had the second highest 216 runs in the last edition of Women's T20 World Cup. He took only 1 wicket in bowling.