ICC Player of the Month award
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Indian opener Shubman Gill and speedster Mohammed Siraj and were both nominated on Tuesday for the ICC Player of the Month Award in recognition of their outstanding performances in January.
Devon Conway, the opening batsman for New Zealand, is the third candidate for the prize. Conway has had a strong start to the year with three hundreds and two fifties across forms.
After a successful 2022, Gill showed off his batting abilities in both white-ball forms last month, and Siraj has recently distinguished himself as India’s top fast-bowling option in ODIs, demonstrating his brilliance on a regular basis, especially with the new ball in Jasprit Bumrah’s absence.
Gill received his first T20I call-up in first game against Sri Lanka last month, where he scored just seven runs, followed by another score of under ten runs in the second match. In Rajkot’s third T20I, he scored a solid 46.
In the subsequent three one-day internationals against the island nation, Gill scored 70, 21 and 116 runs, but it was his stunning performance in the opening ODI against New Zealand in Hyderabad that truly stole the show.
Shubman Gill continued his run in New Zealand series
The 23-year-old scored an astounding 208 runs off 149 balls on a day when none of his teammates surpassed 28.
With three successive sixes off Lockie Ferguson, Gill reached 200 and became the ODI’s youngest player to do so.
After that, he followed it up with scores of 40 not out and 112 in his next two appearances, bringing his series total to 360, which tied Babar Azam’s record against the West Indies in 2016–17 as the joint-highest in a three-match ODI series.
Siraj’s dominance in white-ball cricket
On the other side, Siraj’s outstanding play was recognized in the ICC Men’s Player Rankings, where he was named the top bowler in ODIs.
In a high-scoring first ODI match against Sri Lanka in Guwahati, he returned with numbers of 2/30 from seven overs. He followed it up with figures of 3/30 and 4/32 in his subsequent two appearances, respectively, to end as the series’ top wicket-taker.
In a high-scoring thriller against New Zealand in his home stadium in Hyderabad, the right-arm quick went on to take 4/46 from 10 overs, and in the second ODI in Raipur, he returned a remarkable 6-1-10-1 in a magnificent opening burst.
Devon Conway stars with bat in January 2023
The New Zealand player Devon Conway had a brilliant run in January 2023 too.
With three hundreds and two fifties across formats in January, Devon Conway has had a strong start to the year. Conway scored 122 points in the first innings of the second Test match between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi before adding scores of 0 (zero), 101, and 52 to help New Zealand win the 2-1 ODI series there.
The southpaw returned from the India trip with knocks of 10, 7, 138, 51, 11, and 1 in the six white-ball matches.
