India quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah has gained the celebrated Sir Garfield Sobers Award for Males’s Cricketer of the 12 months on the ICC Awards, with New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr taking the ladies’s honour.
Bumrah beat England pair Joe Root and Harry Brook, in addition to Australia’s Travis Head to the award, and is the fifth recipient in historical past after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
It comes as recognition for Bumrah’s extraordinary 2024, by which the 31-year-old dominated opponents within the longest in addition to the shortest format of the sport.
The Indian pacer tallied 71 Take a look at wickets in simply 13 matches, the very best by any bowler in 2024, comfortably beating England’s Gus Atkinson (52) as the subsequent finest.
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Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain talk about Bumrah’s type and whether or not he’s the world’s finest participant throughout all codecs of the sport
Bumrah claimed Participant of the Collection honours within the latest Border-Gavaskar sequence in opposition to Australia for his staggering 32 wickets throughout 5 Checks, surging to the highest of the Take a look at bowling rankings and crossing the elusive 900-point mark as he ended the yr with a record-breaking 907 – the very best for any Indian bowler in historical past.
He additionally grew to become the quickest Indian pacer to achieve 200 Take a look at wickets, attaining the feat with a sub-20 bowling common (19.40) – one of the best in historical past.
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Highlights of the 2024 Males’s T20 World Cup closing as India fought again with the ball to beat South Africa by seven runs in a Barbados thriller
Bumrah additionally dominated the 2024 ICC Males’s T20 World Cup, spearheading India’s title-winning marketing campaign after 17 years with out having gained the occasion. His 15 wickets got here at an astonishing common of 8.26 and an economic system of simply 4.17, making him the Participant of the Event.
His spectacular 2-18 from 4 overs, together with the massive wickets of Reeza Hendricks and Marco Jansen within the closing in opposition to South Africa, performed a useful function in India’s triumph in Bridgetown.
Kiwis all-rounder Kerr claims Ladies’s Cricketer of the 12 months
New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr has gained the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for Ladies’s Cricketer of 12 months, beating South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt, Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu and Australia’s Annabel Sutherland to the celebrated award.
Kerr is the primary New Zealander to assert the prize, which has been collected twice every by England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, Australia’s Ellyse Perry and India’s Smriti Mandhana because it was established in 2017.
The 24-year-old can be the primary Kiwi to win any type of general Ladies’s Cricketer of the 12 months trophy.
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Watch how Kerr dismissed South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt and Anneke Bosch within the Ladies’s T20 World Cup closing
Kerr was participant of the match within the 2024 Ladies’s T20 World Cup closing because the White Ferns beat South Africa, scoring 43 from 38 deliveries after which taking 3-24, along with her wickets together with two of the Proteas’ high three in Wolvaardt and Anneke Bosch.
She claimed 15 wickets in the course of the match, probably the most by a bowler in a single version of the T20 World Cup, eclipsing the 13 taken by England’s Anya Shrubsole (2014) and Australia’s Megan Schutt (2020).
