Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 29: Surykumar Yadav has been nominated for the ICC men’s T20I cricketer of the year award. Suryakumar is the lone player from India to receive the nomination along with Sikandar Raza, Sam Curran, and Mohammad Rizwan, joining players who had outstanding 2022.
With 1164 runs scored, the Indian right-handed batsman was miles ahead of his countrymen. The closest to Surya was Virat Kohli, who made 781 runs, including a century against Afghanistan in the 2022 Asia Cup but had a severe lack of numbers against the latter.
Surya’s total of 68 sixes in T20Is during the calendar year is by far the most anyone has ever scored within that time period. Yadav was the best men’s T20I batter in the year with two hundreds and nine half-centuries.
Sam Curran, the player of the T20 World Cup and champion of the competition, is another contender for the honour alongside Surya. Throughout the T20 World Cup, Curran was outstanding and dominated the statistics for taking wickets. Despite being the underdog on this list, Sikandar Raza enjoyed the finest T20 cricket season ever for a Zimbabwean.
In just 24 games, Raza has 735 runs and 25 wickets.
In addition to these three, Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan, who has 960 runs in 25 matches, has also been nominated in the four-man list. In 2021, Rizwan was the recipient.
After a generally subpar year for Indian cricket, none of the other players from that country were included in the list. Despite having a fantastic global record in 2022, the Indian squad was unable to establish its dominance in international competition. In every series Suryakumar Yadav participated in in 2022, he was the lineup’s outstanding batter and produced a number of noteworthy hits.
