Jemimah Rodrigues nominated for the ICC’s ‘Player Of The Month’ award. Rodrigues was a key member of the Indian team that advanced to the Commonwealth Games final in Birmingham.
Jemimah Rodrigues, an Indian batter, was nominated for the ICC’s ‘Player of the Month’ award on Monday for her outstanding performance at the Commonwealth Games in August. In the women’s category, the gold medal-winning Australian duo of Beth Mooney and Tahlia McGrath also nominate. Rodrigues was a key member of the Indian team that advanced to the Commonwealth Games finals in Birmingham. She finished fifth on the run-scorers list with 146 runs in five matches.
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ICC’s ‘Player Of The Month: Rodrigues was India’s top run-scorer in the crucial match against Barbados
Scoring an unbeaten 56 off 46 balls to help her team advance to the semifinals.
Mooney, on the other hand, was the Birmingham CWG’s leading run-scorer. She began the month with a brilliant unbeaten 49-ball 70 against Pakistan in Australia’s final Group A game. Then followed it up with a patient 29-ball 36 against New Zealand in the semifinals, batting her side out of trouble after early wickets.
McGrath wowed everyone with her all-around brilliance. She was a key factor in Australia making history by winning the gold medal in the event’s first-ever women’s tournament.
With eight wickets in five matches, she finished the tournament as the tournament’s joint second-highest wicket-taker.
Moreover, Men’s nominees include England Test captain Ben Stokes, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, and New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner.
Stokes broke the back of South Africa’s middle-order in the second Test against the Proteas in Manchester, taking the wickets of Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen as the visitors were bowled out for 151.
He followed it up with a brilliant century, which came after England had lost early wickets on day two.
Raza had a fantastic August. Raza score three centuries in a month while competing against Asian giants India and Bangladesh.
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