The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday, August 12, introduced the winners of the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month and ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month awards for July 2024. Final week, the ICC named Gus Atkinson, Washington Sundar, and Charlie Cassell because the nominees for the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for July.
Nicely, Gus Atkinson, England’s rising tempo bowling star, has been topped the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for July 2024 for his explosive efficiency in his debut Take a look at collection towards the West Indies at dwelling. He outclassed India’s Sundar and Scotland’s Cassell to obtain the respect.
Gus Atkinson named ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for July 2024 after gorgeous Take a look at debut
Atkinson’s sensational bowling all through the three-match Take a look at collection helped England to whitewash the West Indies within the dwelling collection. His extraordinary show of tempo and precision noticed him outshine India’s spin all-rounder Sundar and Scotland’s seamer Charlie Cassell, who additionally excelled final month.
This honor comes as a testomony to Atkinson’s unimaginable influence in his debut Take a look at collection towards the West Indies. Atkinson made a surprising debut in Take a look at cricket, taking 12 wickets in his first match, together with five-wicket hauls in each innings at Lord’s. His outstanding 7/45 within the first innings led to the West Indies being bowled out for simply 121, and he adopted up with one other five-wicket haul (5/61) to safe a large win for England.
Atkinson’s dominance with the ball continued within the dwelling Take a look at collection, as he added 10 extra wickets throughout the remaining two Exams, together with a four-wicket haul within the closing Take a look at. With a complete of twenty-two wickets in three Exams, Atkinson was named Participant of the Sequence and now received the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month award for July 2024.
It’s a actual privilege to win the ICC Participant of the Month award: Atkinson
Gus Atkinson was quoted as saying by the ICC on successful the award: “It’s a actual privilege to win the ICC Participant of the Month! The begin to my Take a look at profession has been unbelievable, and I by no means imagined reaching this stage of success in my first collection with England. I’m extremely grateful to my teammates and the implausible surroundings created by Baz (Brendon McCullum) and Stokesy (Ben Stokes).”
The star pacer added, “It is an honour to play and signify my nation. I do know there’s plenty of arduous work forward, particularly with an enormous collection towards Sri Lanka arising. I am excited to keep up consistency and do my greatest to assist England succeed.”
Chamari Athapaththu’s stellar Asia Cup 2024 efficiency earns her ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month award
In the meantime, Sri Lanka’s inspirational captain, Chamari Athapaththu, defeated the formidable contenders, reminiscent of India’s star openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, to clinch the ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month award for July 2024.
This accolade marks Athapaththu’s third ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month award, equaling the document of the West Indies’ Hayley Matthews because the joint second-most profitable cricketer within the Girls’s Participant of the Month award historical past.
They’re now solely behind Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner, who has 4 ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month awards to her identify up to now. Athapaththu was instrumental in Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup 2024 triumph, scoring 304 runs at a strike fee of 146.85 final month.
Athapaththu mentioned on the respect: “I’m blissful and honored to have been chosen because the ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month’ for the third time. I consider these recognitions will ship a constructive message to hundreds of ladies who’re already taking part in cricket in my nation and in addition elsewhere and need to play for his or her nation; that dedication and dedication for the sport will in the future repay.”
