New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Star India opener Smriti Mandhana joined South African star Laura Wolvaardt, Sri Lanka all-rounder Chamari Athapaththu, Australia’s Annabel Sutherland because the nominees for the 2024 ICC Girls’s ODI Cricketer of the Yr.
In 12 ODI innings this yr, Mandhana made 747 runs at a mean of 61.91, with strike fee of 95.15, with 4 centuries and three fifties. Her finest rating was 136.
A pair of centuries in June towards South Africa in Bengaluru actually acquired Mandhana’s 2024 marketing campaign rolling and the left-hander managed two additional a whole bunch later within the yr to remain in good contact proper up till December.
Mandhana managed a complete of 343 runs from three innings in a ‘Participant of the Sequence’ effort towards South Africa acquired her third hundred of 2024 when amassing 100 within the last match of India’s house collection towards New Zealand proper after the completion of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup.
One other hundred adopted within the last match of her aspect’s three-game collection with Australia in December, however that was in useless because the Aussies accomplished a 3-0 collection sweep of their very own.
Mandhana’s finest all-round effort got here within the second match of India’s house collection towards South Africa in June, when she scored a century and picked up a key wicket to assist her aspect to a slender four-wicket victory.
The 28-year-old acquired India going with a superb innings of 136 from simply 120 deliveries, that included 18 fours and two sixes – because the aspect managed to amass a giant whole of 325/3 after they have been despatched into bat.
Mandhana then picked up the important thing wicket of Sune Luus throughout South Africa’s reply because the Proteas fell agonisingly in need of victory.
Additionally, South Africa’s Wolvaardt commenced the yr in a glut as she managed simply seven runs from three innings towards Australia, however that lack of kind did not final lengthy because the South Africa captain went on a run-scoring spree in virtually each ODI contest that adopted that collection, as per ICC.
In 12 innings, she made 697 runs at a mean of 87.12, with three centuries and three fifties and finest rating of 184.
A pair of unbeaten centuries towards Sri Lanka – together with a career-best 184 in Potchefstroom – whet Wolvaardt’s urge for food and the 25-year-old then made it three centuries in 4 matches when she hit 135 towards India in Bengaluru in June.
One other half-century adopted towards India earlier than Wolvaardt completed her 2024 marketing campaign with a trio of fine scores towards England on house soil in December.
Wolvaardt produced her finest effort with the bat when she scored a career-best 184 towards Sri Lanka in Potchefstroom in April.
It was an innings of pure class from the South African right-hander, who smashed 23 fours and 4 large sixes in what was an outstanding particular person efficiency.
The innings of 184 got here from simply 147 deliveries and helped South Africa amass an enormous whole of 301/5 towards the Asian aspect.
-Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka)In 9 innings, Chamari made 458 runs at a mean of 65.42, with a strike fee of 101.10, with finest rating of 195. She additionally took 9 wickets at a mean of 32.22.
Athapaththu didn’t really make her first ODI look of 2024 till April, however she instantly hit the bottom working as she contributed scores of 51 and 195 in a 1-1 collection outcome towards South Africa away from house.
The 34-year-old continued with that wealthy vein of kind into the three-match ODI collection towards the West Indies the place she managed 130 runs and 4 wickets as Sri Lanka accomplished an emphatic 3-0 collection sweep.
An innings of 48 and a three-wicket haul with the ball from Sri Lanka’s last ODI match of the yr in Belfast noticed Athapaththu finish her 2024 on a excessive in ODI cricket.
Athapaththu’s finest efficiency sarcastically got here in the identical contest as Wolvaardt, with the Sri Lanka veteran scoring an outstanding 195 to guide her aspect to victory.
Chasing north of 300 in an ODI isn’t simple, however that is precisely what Athapaththu and Sri Lanka made it look as they chased down South Africa’s rating of 301/5 with greater than 5 overs remaining.
The Sri Lanka skipper smashed 26 fours and 5 large sixes throughout her 139-ball keep, trumping Wolvaardt’s effort that helped the island nation sq. the three-match collection at 1-1.
-Annabel Sutherland (Australia)In 9 innings, Sutherland made 369 runs at a mean of 52.71, with two centuries and a fifty. Her finest rating was 110. She additionally took 13 wickets averaging 17.69. The 23-year-old commenced the yr with a two-wicket haul in Australia’s victory over India in Mumbai and was then comparatively quiet throughout a three-match collection at house towards South Africa that the Aussies managed to win 2-1.
Alternatives have been scarce for Sutherland throughout Australia’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh in March, though the proficient all-rounder did handle an unbeaten innings of 58 in a simple victory within the collection opener in Mirpur.
It wasn’t till the backend of the yr in consecutive collection towards India at house and New Zealand away that Sutherland actually shone, with the teenager scoring centuries in consecutive matches towards completely different opponents and claiming Participant of the Sequence honours for her efforts towards Harmanpreet Kaur’s aspect.
Sutherland’s finest all-round effort got here on the well-known WACA Floor in Perth when she scored her third ODI century to guide her aspect to an emphatic 3-0 collection sweep over India.
The 23-year-old smashed 9 fours and 4 large sixes on the Perth floor to attain 110 from simply 95 deliveries and backed up that effort with the bat by claiming the essential wicket of India captain Harmanpreet Kaur in reply as Australia ran out simple winners. (ANI)
