Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma Among ICC Women’s Player Of The Month Nominees
Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, and Chamari Athapaththu have been nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for July 2024.
New Delhi: India openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, which comprise Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu have been nominated for ICC Females’s Participant of the Month award for July 2024.
Smriti, the left-surpassed opener and India’s vice-captain, is aiming to make it back-to-back success after prevailing the ICC Females’s Participant of the Month award in June 2024, after making 273 runs at an unique of sixty eight.25 with a strike expense of 139.28 in T20Is in July.
She persevered her prolific run into July, opening with a career-best 149 within the one-off Have a seriously appear into in opposition t South Africa at Chennai. Alongside with fellow nominee Shafali, she introduced 292 runs for the first wicket, which became completely the most effectiv-ever partnership for the first wicket in Females’s Checks, inserting the base for India prevailing the in shape by 10 wickets.
She accompanied this up with 100 runs from two innings within the T20I series in opposition t South Africa, at the aspect of fifty 4 no longer out within worthy T20I which helped India win the contest by 10 wickets and square the series. Inside the Females’s Asia Cup, Smriti gathered 173 runs and became the pinnacle-scorer for India within worthy, making 60 from 47 balls with 10 fours to her name.
Nonetheless, Shafali earns a nomination after scoring 229 Have a seriously appear into runs and 245 T20I runs in July 2024. For the length of her standout opening stand with Smriti within the one-off Have a seriously appear into, Shafali grew to be just the 2nd Indian girl to hit a double century after the legendary Mithali Raj.
She managed to assemble the feat in 194 balls, which is now the fastest-ever double hundred made in Females’s Checks, and additionally made a brisk 24 no longer within the 2nd innings. Her 205 within the first innings became completely the most effectiv score for India as they posted a file whole of 603/6, completely the most effectiv-ever whole in Females’s Checks, paving the edition for them to beat South Africa by ten wickets.
After collecting 45 runs within the T20I series in opposition t South Africa, Shafali grew to be the 2nd-absolute best run-getter within the Females’s Asia Cup, with her 200 runs coming at a glorious strike expense of A hundred and forty.84, which lined a quickfire 40 off 29 balls in opposition t arch-opponents Pakistan, and a career-best 81 off forty eight balls, with 12 fours and a six in opposition t Nepal.
In the meantime, Chamari enjoyed a career-defining moment when she captained Sri Lanka to a memorable triumph within the Females’s Asia Cup on dwelling soil. The left-surpassed batter hit 304 runs for the time of the opposition at an unique of 101.33 and a strike expense of 146.eighty five.
Her standout performances lined an unbeaten 119 in opposition t Malaysia and two necessary 0.5-centuries within the knockout ranges – in Sri Lanka’s anxious semi-final victory over Pakistan, and the 2nd coming within worthy to chase down 166 in opposition t for victory in a promote-out Dambulla stadium.
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