Ashley Gardner (AP Image)
Gardner won the award back in December and his inspirational all-round form in February earned him the Player of the Tournament award as Australia claimed a sixth global T20 crown.
The trio of stars from Australia, England and South Africa – Ashleigh Gardner, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Laura Wolvaardt, who dominated the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup – have been shortlisted for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for February 2023 Is.
Gardner won the award back in December and his inspirational all-round form in February earned him the Player of the Tournament award as Australia claimed a sixth global T20 crown.
Sciver-Brunt followed up her recent ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year award with an impressive batting display to take England to another World Cup semi-final.
Completing the lineup for the Women’s Player of the Month is the leading run-scorer from the event, Laura Wolvaardt, who enthralled in a series of performances that saw South Africa reach their maiden T20 World Cup final.
Australian all-rounder Gardner reached the ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings for South Africa. Scoring 110 runs and taking ten wickets throughout the tournament, his key contributions included playing a key role in the thrilling semi-final victory over India, scoring a crucial 31 (18 balls) and taking two wickets in the match, one of which was the team’s prized scalp. Was. Smriti Mandhana.
Valuable runs in the final also earned Gardner the Player of the Tournament award, which was meant to sit alongside the ultimate prize – the Women’s T20 World Cup.
Despite being thrashed at the semi-final stage of the Women’s T20 World Cup, Sciver-Brunt proved a vital figure in England’s top order throughout the tournament, thanks to her powerful hitting and varied strokeplay.
The England star recently celebrated winning the Rachael Hayhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women’s Player of the Year in 2022, and her stretch of good form continued with four 40-plus scores in five matches, resulting in an average of 72.00. 216 runs were scored.
Selected for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month on five occasions, she is yet to seal her maiden award win but looks well placed to break that run after a stellar February.
South Africa enjoyed a historic victory in the Women’s T20 World Cup final, largely thanks to Wolvaardt’s brilliance at the top of the order. In the latter stages of the event the 23-year-old most mesmerized in wins against Bangladesh (66 not out), England (53) and Australia (61) in the final.
Successive scores ensured that Wolvaardt finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer with 230 runs, capping off a memorable campaign for him and his Proteas teammates.
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