-Vinay Kumar
Team India’s young batsman Shreyas Iyer and New Zealand women’s cricket team’s all-rounder Amelia Kerr have been selected as ICC Women’s Player of the Month for February 2022. Shreyas performed well during the white ball series (Shreyas Iyer vs West Indies and Sri Lanka, 2022) against West Indies and Sri Lanka in February 2022. Along with Shreyas, UAE batsman Vruti Aravind and Nepal all-rounder Deepender Singh Airi were also in this race. But, Iyer remained strong in this race.
Shreyas Iyer played a brilliant innings of 80 runs in the last match of the ODI series against West Indies. After this, in the last match of the T20I series, he scored 25 runs in 16 balls. After this Shreyas also performed well in T20I and Test series against Sri Lanka. Shreyas scored the highest 204 runs for the Indian team in 3 matches played in the T20 series against Sri Lanka. It also includes his 3 lively half-centuries.
Shreyas Iyer remained not out in the T20I series against Sri Lanka (SL vs IND T20I Series, 2022). His strike rate was 174.36. He scored 57 (28 balls), 74 (44 balls) and 73 (45 balls) in 3 matches and remained not out. Overall, in this series, he hit 20 brilliant fours and 7 sixes.
Shreyas Iyer was the second highest run-scorer in the Test series against Sri Lanka (SL vs IND Test Series). He scored 186 runs at an average of 62.00. It also includes his 2 half-centuries. However, the figures for the Test series were not included for selecting the ‘Player of the Month’, as both the matches of this Test series were played in the month of March.
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Such was the batting of Shreyas in February 2022
* Man of the Match in the third ODI against West Indies.
* Man of the Match in the second T20 International against Sri Lanka.
* Man of the Match in the 3rd T20 International against Sri Lanka.
* Man of the Series in the T20I series against Sri Lanka.
* ICC Men’s Player of the Month’.
Amelia Kerr was named the Player of the Month in ICC Women’s Cricket. He performed well in both the bowling and batting in the One Day International series against India. Amelia achieved this honor by beating Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj and all-rounder Deepti Sharma. In the lone T20I, he added 17 runs in New Zealand’s interesting 18-run win and took 2 for 25 in the bowling.
Amelia was the highest run-scorer in the ODI series. He scored 353 runs at an average of 117.67, and also took 7 wickets. He was awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ in the second and fourth ODI. He is an important part of New Zealand’s World Cup team. It is worth noting that in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, 2022, she has scored 111 runs and has also taken 5 wickets. Amelia Kerr has scored 203 runs in her last 5 matches at an average of 67.67 and has also picked up 6 wickets.