Proteas star nominated for ICC emerging player award

Proteas tempo rookie Gerald Coetzee has earned himself an ICC awards nomination within the breakthrough player class.

Coetzee has impressed throughout 2023 with performances in all three codecs of the sport.

ICC awards

The International Cricket Council (ICC) right now revealed the second batch of shortlists within the ICC Awards 2023, highlighting one of the best particular person performers in males’s and ladies’s ODI cricket from the previous yr.

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A trio of Indian stars function among the many ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year nominees. Shubman Gill spent a prolonged time atop the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI batter rankings in 2023, scoring a formidable 1584 runs through the calendar yr and selecting up two ICC Men’s Player of the Month Awards alongside the way in which.

Competing alongside Gill for the ODI honours is fellow countryman Virat Kohli, recent from his Player of the Tournament spell on the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023. Kohli, who’s a two-time Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy winner and three-time Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year, scored six ODI centuries within the twelve-month interval – greater than every other player.

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India dominate ODI awards

Strike bowler Mohammed Shami additionally options, having taken the third most ODI wickets through the yr (43), and after producing an array of scintillating shows throughout CWC23 by which he was high wicket-taker. Completing the shortlist is New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell, who additionally loved a stellar yr with the bat, recording 1204 runs and posting 5 centuries for the Blackcaps in 2023.

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The ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year class is suffering from high all-rounders, with Nat Sciver-Brunt in competition to assert back-to-back honours. Last yr, the England star scooped the highest two awards, and 2023 was equally prolific, as she hit three centuries in ODI outings and ended the yr averaging 131 with the bat. She is joined on the shortlist by Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu, who scored freely atop the order, ending the yr with a startling strike fee of 125.37 in ODI cricket.

Ashleigh Gardner gained an unprecedented three ICC Women’s Player of the Month awards through the calendar yr, together with successive awards in June and July. As nicely as scoring precious runs within the center order in 50-over cricket, she took extra wickets than anybody else (24). The ultimate contender is New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr, nominated for the second yr operating for her ODI exploits, ending 2023 as the highest run-scorer within the format with 541 runs at 67.62, along with eight wickets with the ball.

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ICC award Nominees

1 ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Shubman Gill (India), Virat Kohli (India), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Mohammed Shami (India)

2 ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)

3 ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Suryakumar Yadav (India)

4 ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia)

5 ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Gerald Coetzee (South Africa), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka), Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)

6 ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Marufa Akter (Bangladesh), Lauren Bell (England), Darcey Carter (Scotland), Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)