Overview
- ICC named New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell and Bangladesh’s Sobhana Mostary the Men’s and Women’s Players of the Month for January.
- Mitchell hit consecutive ODI hundreds in India—131 not out in the second match and 137 in the third—to turn a 0-1 deficit into a 2-1 series win.
- He stacked up 352 ODI runs, earned Player of the Series, and reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the ICC ODI batting rankings.
- His January honor came over fellow nominees Suryakumar Yadav and Joe Root, after he also struck 125 runs in five T20Is at a 186.56 strike rate.
- Mostary scored 229 in her first six Women’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifier games at 45.80 and 145.85, central to Bangladesh’s unbeaten campaign and selected ahead of nominees Gaby Lewis and Tara Norris.