Dubai [UAE], February 11 (ANI): The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday unveiled the Males’s and Girls’s Gamers of the Month for January 2025 because the West Indies spinner Jomel Warrican and Australia batter Beth Mooney.
Warrican, along with his left-arm spin, impressed the Caribbean crew to their first Check win in Pakistan since 1990. Alternatively, Mooney was at her scintillating finest as Australia convincingly outclassed England within the Ashes.
Together with his memorable efficiency within the sub-continent, Warrican received his maiden ICC Males’s Participant of the Month award by keeping off powerful competitors from two standout spinners, Pakistan’s seasoned ball tweaker Noman Ali and India’s thriller spinner Varun Chakravarthy. The 32-year-old’s scythed 19 wickets in two Check matches in January at a median of simply 9.00.
Regardless of Pakistan successful the sequence opener, Warrican returned with ten wickets in Multan’s spin-friendly situations. Within the first innings, he registered figures of three/69 which was preceded by his career-best spell of seven/32 within the second.
He continued to outshine everybody along with his brilliance within the second Check, not solely with the ball but in addition with the bat in hand. He arrived on the crease when the West Indies have been tottering at 95/9 within the first innings, and lifted the spirits along with his unbeaten 36. His exploits with Kemar Roach foiled the Pakistan onslaught and propelled the vacationers to a good whole of 163.
With contributions of 4/43 and 5/27, his all-round heroics heralded a historic 120-run victory. He was topped with the Participant of the Sequence accolade, a recognition for his sensational efficiency.
Warrican turns into the primary West Indian to win the award since his compatriot spinner Gudakesh Motie achieved the feat again in Could 2024.
‘It is an honour to win this award. One among my targets for this yr was my first five-for in Check cricket, however I didn’t assume that it could be this grand! I see this as one small step in my cricketing profession, and I sit up for many extra. I promised my captain one thing particular on this sequence, particularly when my father, my greatest supporter, predicted an outstanding efficiency for me,’ Warrican mentioned as quoted from ICC.
‘Multan has a particular place in my coronary heart: not solely due to the historic win for the West Indies, beating Pakistan away from residence but in addition by incomes this prestigious award,’ he added.
Within the girls’s class, Mooney exhibited her trademark firepower in assertion performances throughout ODI and T20I encounters.
After a subdued begin to the sequence, the opener dug deep with a battling half-century within the third ODI in Hobart. When Australia have been struggling at 59/4, Mooney resisted a resurgent England with 50 from 64 balls, setting the platform for the house aspect to submit 308 and safe the ODI sweep.
Within the T20I contests that adopted, Mooney consolidated her place because the top-ranked batter, placing 213 runs at a blistering strike fee of 146.89.
Scores of 75 and 44 got here earlier than a surprising unbeaten 94 in 63 balls in Adelaide, her highest rating in over 5 years within the format which laid the inspiration of Australia’s success in opposition to their fierce rivals.
Mooney overcame the West Indies’ Karishma Ramharack and India’s U19 Girls’s T20 World Cup winner Gongadi Trisha to take the coveted prize.
Her newest recognition ensures a second successive win for an Australian participant after Annabel Sutherland was honoured in December.
‘It is an honour to be named the ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month and I might wish to thank everybody who voted for me. January was an unbelievable month for the Australian Girls’s Cricket Group. Profitable the Ashes in entrance of a house crowd was very particular and to finish the sequence taking part in within the first ever day-night Check on the MCG in entrance of a report crowd for a Girls’s Check is a second that we are going to all always remember. This crew continues to realize wonderful outcomes, and I’m so proud to be part of it,’ Mooney added. (ANI)
