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ICC Emerging Player Award 2022: 1 male and two female India Cricketers in the Nomination List

ICC Emerging Player of the Year Award: The list comprises four men in the running. It comprises four players from Afghanistan, India, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Dubai, Dec 28: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday (December 28) announced the nominees for the Emerging Player Award for the year 2022.

The list comprises four men in the running for the prestigious award in the men's category. In the women's category, there are two Indian women cricketers on the list of nominees.

Men's Cricket Nominees

In the men's category, two are left-arm pacers and the other is a pair of openers. It comprises four players from Afghanistan, India, New Zealand and South Africa.

India's young pace sensation Arshdeep Singh and South Africa's rising left-arm fast bowler Marco Jansen, while Afghanistan's top-order batter Ibrahim Zadran along with New Zealand Finn Allen have been shortlisted by the global cricket body as the nominees.

Voting will commence early in January with the winners announced later in the month.

Country with the most ICC Emerging Player of the Year Awards

So far four players from England and Australia have won the prestigious awards while three Indians have bagged this award. Two players from West Indies have also been bestowed with this award. One player from South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan has also won the award.

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Winners of ICC Emerging Player of the Year Awards

Year Winner Team
2004 Irfan Pathan India
2005 Kevin Pietersen England
2006 Ian Bell England
2007 Shaun Tait Australia
2008 Ajantha Mendis Sri Lanka
2009 Peter Siddle Australia
2010 Steven Finn England
2011 Devendra Bishoo West Indies
2012 Sunil Narine West Indies
2013 Cheteshwar Pujara India
2014 Gary Ballance England
2015 Josh Hazlewood Australia
2016 Mustafizur Rahman Bangladesh
2017 Hasan Ali Pakistan
2018 Rishabh Pant India
2019 Marnus Labuschagne Australia
2021 Janneman Malan South Africa

Let us take a look at how the year 2022 panned out for these four players who are in the ICC Emerging Player of the Year Nomination List:

1. Marco Jansen - South Africa

1. Marco Jansen - South Africa

Performance: 36 Test wickets at 19.02, 229 runs at 22.90 (till December 27, 2022)

Two ODI wickets, and one T20I wicket.

Memorable performance

Making 30 with the bat in South Africa's paltry 118 at The Oval, Jansen brought his form into the bowling performance, finishing with a maiden five-wicket haul on a surface historically good for batting.

Jansen made a mess of Alex Lees' stumps to start the run, before trapping Zak Crawley plumb leg before in an early double-strike. He claimed Joe Root and Harry Brook when he returned to the bowling crease, before dismissing Ben Foakes for his fifth.

He finished with 5/35 as South Africa hit back in the match, bowling England out for just 158.

2. Ibrahim Zadran - Afghanistan

2. Ibrahim Zadran - Afghanistan

Performance:

431 ODI runs at 71.83, strike rate 88.31

367 T20I runs at 36.70, strike rate 109.55

Memorable performance

Zadran can boast the highest individual ODI innings for an Afghan after his effort of 162 against a strong Sri Lankan bowling attack in Pallekele, breaking Mohammad Shahzad's 131* seven years prior.

Ibrahim fell on the last ball of the innings after smashing 15 fours and four sixes prior in a dominant knock, with only Najibullah Zadran's 77 accompanying him.

It was the second century for Ibrahim in the three-match Super League series, taking his year ODI run tally to 431 at an average of almost 72.

3. Finn Allen - New Zealand

3. Finn Allen - New Zealand

Performance:

411 T20I runs at 21.63, strike rate 155.09

387 ODI runs at 38.70, strike rate 94.39

Memorable performance

Similar to his blitz against Australia at the T20 World Cup later in the year, Allen stole the fourth match away from Pakistan in their tri-series with Bangladesh, making 62 from just 42 balls in a chase of 131.

Allen stole the show with six sixes in the knock, hitting three off the bowling of Shahnawaz Dahani, also taking on the spin of Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz and Iftikhar Ahmed.

4. Arshdeep Singh - India

4. Arshdeep Singh - India

Performance:

33 T20I wickets at 18.12, economy 8.17, strike rate 13.30

Memorable performance

Unflustered by the pressure of an India v Pakistan fixture in a global tournament and in front of over 90,000 people, Arshdeep stood tall on the big stage.

With a prodigious swing at pace, Arshdeep removed both members of Pakistan's prolific opening pair. He claimed Babar Azam with his first ball lbw, before taking the wicket of Mohammad Rizwan at the end of his next over.

Arshdeep returned at the death to curtail Asif Ali's plans of a late onslaught, finishing with 3/32 from his four-over allotment.

Women's Category

Women's Category

2 Indians, 1 Aussie and an English player nominated in women's category

In the women's category, Indian pace bowler Renuka Singh and batter Yastika Bhatia were nominated for the award alongside Australia's Darcie Brown and England's Alice Capsey.

Renuka Singh has been nominated for the prestigious award after the right-arm bowler claimed 40 wickets this year in just 29 matches across the two white-ball formats, thus emerging as a frontrunner to step into Jhulan Goswami's shoes.

The 26-year-old Renuka was especially potent in ODIs, claiming 18 wickets at an average of 14.88. She troubled the strong Australian line-up in the seven T20I meetings this year, taking eight wickets, while her showing in the Commonwealth Games and the Asia Cup in Dhaka - 17 wickets in 11 games - shows she has a big-match temperament.

Yastika Bhatia, with her composed demeanour, performed remarkably in India's middle order throughout the year.

She scored 41 and 31 in the lead-up to the 50-over World Cup in New Zealand before going on to score half-centuries against Australia and Bangladesh. The 22-year-old scored 376 ODI runs at an average of 25.06 and had a healthy strike rate of 73.29.

Story first published: Wednesday, December 28, 2022, 16:44 [IST]
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