In the women’s section, Mandhana will face challenges from Pakistan’s bowling all-rounder Nida Dar, New Zealand’s Sophie Devine and Australia’s Tahlia McGrath. Surya Kumar performed brilliantly in the shortest format of cricket in 2022 and became the second player to score more than 1000 runs in a year in T20 International cricket.
He scored 1164 runs in T20 International this year and his strike rate was 187.43. He hit 68 sixes this year, which is the record for most sixes in a calendar year in T20 Internationals. He also became the world’s number one batsman in T20 rankings this year.
Mandhana, who was named the ICC Women’s T20 Cricketer of the Year last year, has again done well in the shortest format. Be it the fastest fifty by an Indian woman (off 23 balls) or scoring more than 2500 runs in this format, Mandhana impressed with her performances.
Sam Karan and Rizwan are also not far behind
In the race to become the best T20 player of the year, Suryakumar Yadav is expected to face the toughest challenge from England’s Sam Curran and Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan. Sam Karan has played an important role in helping England win the T20 World Cup in the year 2022. On the other hand, if we look at his performance this year, he has done a lot in bowling. Sam played 19 matches throughout the year in which he took 25 wickets. Although his performance in batting was nothing special.
Apart from this, Mohammad Rizwan made a splash with the bat for Pakistan. In the year 2022, Rizwan played a total of 25 T20 matches for Pakistan, in which he scored a total of 996 runs at an average of 45.27.
Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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