New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah congratulated South African batter Aiden Markram and West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews for securing the ICC Participant of the Month awards for June in males’s and ladies’s cricket classes, respectively.
South Africa batter Markram and West Indies skipper Matthews have been introduced because the winners of the ICC Males’s and Ladies’s Participant of the Month awards for June 2025.
Taking to X, Shah wrote, ‘Congratulations to Hayley Matthews and Aiden Markram on their @ICC Participant of the Month Awards. Aiden’s efficiency to steer South Africa to the #WTC25 title was merely wonderful whereas for Matthews this was her record-equalling fourth POTM Award after an incredible month with bat and ball.’
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Markram gained the boys’s award forward of team-mate Kagiso Rabada and Sri Lanka opener Pathum Nissanka for his for Participant of the Match effort within the ICC World Check Championship (WTC) Closing towards Australia at Lord’s.
The 30-year-old opener struck a strong 136 off 207 balls and featured in a 147-run third-wicket stand with captain Temba Bavuma in a profitable chase of 282. The five-wicket victory helped South Africa win an ICC Title for the primary time for the reason that Champions Trophy in 1998. Markram additionally picked up a wicket every within the two innings.
Matthews, who has beforehand gained the awards in November 2021, October 2023, and April 2024, edged South Africa’s Tazmin Brits and compatriot Afy Fletcher to turn out to be solely the second participant to win the award 4 occasions after Australia all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner.
The West Indies skipper scored 104 runs within the three ODIs towards South Africa, which included a half-century within the third match. She additionally grabbed 4 wickets within the collection. Her effective run continued within the subsequent 2-1 T20I collection win. She was named Participant of the Collection for her two fifties in an mixture of 147 runs and two wickets. (ANI)
