The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced shortlists for the ICC Males’s and Girls’s Participant of the Month awards for February, casting a highlight on the highest performers from a breathless month of worldwide cricket.
Carrying excellent kind into the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025, three stars of the match kind the nominees for the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month.
Shubman Gill grabbed the headlines with a stellar displaying in India’s decisive sequence victory over England pre-tournament and regained high spot within the ODI Batter Rankings forward of their opening victory over Bangladesh. New Zealand’s Glenn Phillipsloved an unbeaten stretch on the crease within the Tri-Nation sequence in Pakistan and started his Champions Trophy with a half-century on opening day. Finishing the lineup is Australia skipper Steve Smith, who recorded back-to-back centuries as Australia dominated their World Take a look at Championship sequence in Sri Lanka.
Elsewhere, two heroes of Australia’s victory within the standalone Girls’s Ashes Take a look at comprise the shortlist alongside a prolific younger Thai bowler.
Spin maestro Alana King earns her first nomination within the Participant of the Month awards following a supreme show within the conclusion of the Girls’s Ashes sequence in Melbourne together with Annabel Sutherland, who shone with a mammoth rating within the innings victory. The ultimate nominee is 20-year-old Thai bowling sensation Thipatcha Putthawong, who was among the many wickets in her aspect’s successful marketing campaign on the Nepal Girls’s Tri-Nation Sequence.
ICC Males’s Participant of the Month Nominees for February
Shubman Gill (India)
With 406 runs at a median of over 100, India’s talismanic batter was restored to the summit of the ICC Males’s ODI Batter Rankings throughout February. Three contests towards England noticed him make sizable contributions of 87 and 60 earlier than a elegant 112 in Ahmedabad sealed a commanding sequence sweep. With confidence excessive, the 25-year-old then started his Champions Trophy marketing campaign with a trendy 101 not out towards Bangladesh to assist chase down a difficult 229 goal underneath the lights in Dubai.
Glenn Phillips (New Zealand)
The Blackcaps all-rounder equipped for the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 in type, offering beneficial runs within the center order to seal the Tri-Nation Sequence in Pakistan earlier in February. Unbeaten scores of 28 and 20 adopted a superb 106 from 74 balls in Lahore which featured seven maximums. Then, because the match commenced, Phillips loved a vibrant begin, hitting an equally brisk 61 in 39 balls and taking a outstanding catch to take away Pakistan skipper Mohammad Rizwan, making certain the Blackcaps protected their goal in a 60-run victory in Karachi.
Steve Smith (Australia)
Whereas Smith’s kind was extra subdued within the Champions Trophy, he as soon as once more took centre stage as stand-in skipper in Australia’s dominant 2-0 World Take a look at Championship sequence sweep over Sri Lanka in Galle. The opening Take a look at heralded a formidable 141 alongside Usman Khawaja, earlier than he adopted up with extra of the identical within the second Take a look at, putting 131 within the first innings of a nine-wicket victory that sealed him the Participant of the Sequence accolade and a spot again among the many high 5 Take a look at batters within the ICC Participant Rankings.
ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month Nominees for February
Alana King (Australia)
Australia’s premier legspinner loved a high quality Girls’s Ashes sequence, and performed a starring position as they sealed the standalone Take a look at in Melbourne to substantiate a landmark sequence sweep. Key wickets of Sciver-Brunt, Dunkley and Wyatt-Hodge within the center order got here as King took 4 for 45 within the first innings, earlier than she etched her title on the honours board with a career-best return within the longest format with 5 for 53 within the second innings.
Thipatcha Putthawong (Thailand)
A earlier winner again in Might 2023, the Thailand left-armer was once more the driving power behind their surge to success in February, topping the wicket-taking charts as her aspect sealed the Nepal Girls’s Tri-Nation Sequence. Within the house of six days in the beginning of the month, Putthawong took 14 wickets which included 4 successive hauls of three wickets or extra. Not solely impressing with the ball, Putthawong hit an important unbeaten 25 earlier than taking 4 for 10 in Thailand’s thrilling five-run win over the hosts on 4 February.
Annabel Sutherland (Australia)
Regardless of not successful the person accolades she was nominated for within the not too long ago introduced ICC Awards 2024 (ICC Girls’s Cricketer of the 12 months and ICC Girls’s ODI Cricketer of the 12 months), Sutherland picked up the place she left off on the again finish of the 12 months with a glowing 163 within the Ashes Take a look at victory over England, turning into the primary girl to attain a Take a look at century on the floor in her emphatic Participant of the Match efficiency.
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