Star batter Virat Kohli and premier all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja will vie for the ICC Males’s Cricketer of the Yr award, whereas ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin shall be within the race for the Check Cricketer of the Yr. Kohli and Jadeja must contest for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in opposition to Australian captain Pat Cummins and his team-mate Travis Head. Ashwin will face competitors from Head and his Australia teammate Usman Khawaja together with England senior batsman Joe Root, the ICC stated on Friday.
Kohli made 2048 runs in 35 matches throughout Assessments and ODIs in 2023, together with the fiftieth one-day hundred to go previous the enduring Sachin Tendulkar in the course of the World Cup.
Jadeja amassed 613 runs and 66 wickets in 35 matches and the numbers contained his 22-wicket haul in opposition to Australia within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy early the earlier 12 months.
Cummins garnered 422 runs and 59 wickets in 24 matches and has additionally led the Australians to wins within the Ashes, WTC Remaining and within the ODI World Cup.
Head was in roaring type with the bat in 2023, evidenced by the 1698 runs in 31 matches that included a whole lot within the WTC Remaining and the ODI World Cup remaining, and each the knocks had been produced in opposition to India.
In the meantime, Ashwin ended the 12 months as the highest Check bowler within the ICC Rankings, taking 41 wickets at a putting common of 17.02 and recording essentially the most five-wicket hauls by anybody in Assessments — 4.
Root was on the forefront of England’s success in Check cricket final 12 months. He registered 787 runs in eight Assessments, ending the 12 months with a powerful common of 65.58.
Australia opener Khawaja topped the run-scoring charts within the longest format final 12 months, amassing 1210 runs at a median of 52.60, which included three centuries.
Nominees for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Ladies’s Cricketer of the Yr: Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Beth Mooney (Australia), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England).
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