Jasprit Bumrah and Smriti Mandhana have been topped the world’s main cricketers within the newest version of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
Bumrah received the honour within the males’s part after a stellar 2024 when he excelled throughout codecs and was named participant of the event as India received the Twenty20 World Cup within the West Indies.
“In an eventful year for Indian cricket, their success depended largely, if not entirely, on one factor: whether or not he had the ball,” the publication wrote concerning the 31-year-old, who is taken into account the perfect all-format bowler of his period.
“Rarely has a cricketer stood out so overwhelmingly as he did in 2024.”
Opener Mandhana received the ladies’s honour after a prolific 2024 that included 5 tons of – 4 of them in one-day internationals.
Mandhana additionally led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to their first Women’s Premier League title final yr.
West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran was named the ‘Leading T20 Player within the World’.
England’s Gus Atkinson, Jamie Smith and Sophie Ecclestone have been named amongst Wisden’s 5 ‘Cricketers of the Year’, alongside Liam Dawson and Dan Worrall.
The Almanack, typically referred to as “the Bible of cricket”, has been printed yearly since 1864. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; modifying by Peter Rutherford)
Published – April 22, 2025 11:03 am IST
