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ICC Best Women’s Cricketer 2022: ICC Women’s Test Cricketer of the Year – Four unbelievable stars on the prime of their sport have been nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2022. We check out their efforts and rejoice their achievements all through the calendar yr. Follow Latest ICC Awards updates with InsidesSport.IN

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ICC Best Women’s Cricketer 2022: Smriti Mandhana nominated for prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award, Amelia Kerr, Beth Mooney & Nat Sciver additionally in race

Nat Sciver – England

1346 runs and 22 wickets in 33 matches

The yr that was

Nat Sciver was at her dominant finest throughout codecs in 2022, ending the yr because the top-scorer in Test and second highest in ODIs.

Sciver did the majority of her scoring in ODI cricket, scoring 833 runs at a median of 59.50 and a strike charge of 91.43. She performed a pivotal function in England’s journey to the ultimate of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022, the place she was the third-highest run-getter within the event with 436 runs in eight matches.

The English star additionally confirmed what she is able to within the longer format, scoring 242 runs in two matches. She scored her maiden Test century with an outstanding 169* towards South Africa in June.

Sciver made useful contributions with the ball as effectively, bagging 22 wickets throughout all codecs in 2022. In the primary ODI of the bilateral sequence towards South Africa, she registered career-best figures of 4/59, displaying her potential to vary the sport with the ball.

Best efficiency 

Sciver’s finest efficiency got here on the largest stage doable – the Women’s Cricket World Cup Final – towards arch-rivals Australia. Unfortunately, her heroic effort went in useless as she discovered no help on the different finish chasing a mammoth 357.

Walking out to bat at 38/2, Sciver batted brilliantly to soak up the strain of the ultimate and saved England within the hunt until the very finish by preserving the required run charge inside every. However, wickets saved tumbling on the different finish as Sciver watched helplessly.

At 213/8, there was little hope however Sciver together with Charlie Dean managed to ignite some fireplace with a 65-run stand. Sciver finally ran out of companions, however not earlier than she scored her career-best 148* laced with 15 fours and a six.

Smriti Mandhana – India

1290 runs in 38 matches

The yr that was

The winner of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021 is within the working as soon as once more to bag the coveted value in 2022.

Smriti Mandhana continued her wealthy vein of kind in worldwide cricket for the second yr working, ending as India’s highest run-scorer throughout codecs. She confirmed her unbelievable prowess within the white-ball codecs and was the very best run-getter in T20Is (594 runs) and the second-highest in ODIs (696 runs) for India.

Mandhana made her presence felt at each the main tournaments this yr – the Women’s Cricket World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. In the latter, she was one of many driving forces in India going by means of to the ultimate and bagging the silver medal within the first-ever Women’s cricket occasion on the Commonwealth Games.

Best efficiency

Smriti Mandhana produced one of the vital memorable T20I innings in latest instances throughout his explosive 49-ball 79 towards Australia in entrance of a packed DY Patil Stadium.

Chasing a 188 for the win, Mandhana supplied a wonderful begin to the innings together with fellow opener Shafali Verma. Despite a minor hiccup the place India misplaced Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues in fast succession, the star opener saved the foot on the pedal and ensured that Australia by no means ran away with the sport.

She acquired to her fifty in 37 balls and went berserk thereafter. When she acquired out within the seventeenth over, it seemed like she missed the possibility to take India to victory however due to the lower-order blitzkrieg, India managed to tie the sport because the match went into the Super Over.

Mandhana got here out to bat and made amends for not ending off the sport, smashing a 4 and 6 as she added 13 essential runs in three balls. Australia failed to achieve the goal of 21 as India handed the guests their solely T20I lack of the yr.

ICC Best Women’s Cricketer 2022: Smriti Mandhana nominated for prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award, Amelia Kerr, Beth Mooney & Nat Sciver additionally in race

Amelia Kerr – New Zealand

1003 runs and 30 wickets in 32 matches

The yr that was 

2022 shall be remembered because the yr New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr got here into her personal as an all-rounder, with the 22-year-old contributing constantly with the bat and the ball throughout codecs.

Kerr couldn’t have requested for a greater begin to the yr – the right-hander registered 4 scores of 50-plus within the five-match ODI sequence towards India, together with a elegant century within the second match. She carried her kind over to the World Cup as effectively, the place she was the third-highest run-getter for New Zealand with 201 runs.

In the shorter format, Kerr confirmed a marked enchancment in her batting, accumulating 327 runs at a median of 32.70, in comparison with her profession common of twenty-two.66.

With the ball in hand, the leg-spinner was greater than a handful for the opponents and bagged 30 wickets throughout codecs.

Best efficiency

Kerr’s outstanding efficiency within the second ODI towards India within the five-match sequence in February was a shining instance of her all-round exploits on the cricket subject.

Chasing 271, New Zealand had been in hassle early having misplaced three wickets contained in the Powerplay. Her essential 128-run stand for the fourth with Maddy Green settled all of the early jitters and put India on the backfoot.

However, as soon as the partnership was damaged, wickets saved falling at common intervals however Kerr was undeterred on the different finish. Notching up the second ODI century of her profession, she batted by means of until the tip and noticed the group in an exhilarating match.

Before altering the sport with the bat, Kerr additionally scalped one wicket and accomplished 4 catches to indicate a glimpse of her all-round prowess.

Beth Mooney – Australia

915 runs from 25 matches

The yr that was

Despite not managing to attain a century over the past 12 months, 2022 could have been Mooney’s finest yr of her profession but as she elevated her sport to a good greater degree on the again of some added consistency and new-found maturity.

Mooney did handle eight scores in extra of fifty in 2022 (4 in T20Is, three in ODIs and one at Test degree) and 6 not outs in 50-over cricket through the yr helped the Australia star end with an ODI common of greater than 100 over the past 12 months.

It was towards outdated foe England within the Ashes sequence on residence soil that Mooney’s yr commenced and it was through the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand that the opener actually shone.

Amazingly Mooney was simply dismissed 3 times through the showcase occasion, along with her haul of 330 runs bettered by solely 5 different gamers and her common of 110 the most effective of any batter on the event.

Unsurprisingly Mooney didn’t decelerate, with extra dominant performances coming throughout Australia’s profitable Commonwealth Games marketing campaign and one other two unbeaten half-centuries through the away sequence in India on the finish of the yr.

Best efficiency

Mooney’s finest knock of 2022 got here just lately, throughout Australia’s T20I sequence victory over India away from residence when the left-hander plundered an unbeaten 89* from simply 57 deliveries in a Player of the Match efficiency in Mumbai.

The 28-year-old shared a gap partnership of 73 with fellow veteran Alyssa Healy after which upped the ante when Tahlia McGrath joined her on the crease to assist Australia efficiently chase down India’s respectable whole of 172/5 with 11 deliveries remaining.

Mooney hit a whopping 16 boundaries throughout her excellent particular person innings and by no means seemed uncontrolled as she used all her expertise towards a world-class India assault.

Mooney’s exploits helped Australia to a dominant 4-1 sequence conquer India and it ought to come as no shock to seek out out that the constant opener scored extra runs than some other participant through the sequence.

ICC Best Women’s Cricketer 2022: Smriti Mandhana nominated for prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award, Amelia Kerr, Beth Mooney & Nat Sciver additionally in race

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