Overview
- ICC released February shortlists featuring men’s nominees Sahibzada Farhan, Will Jacks and Shadley van Schalkwyk, and women’s nominees Harshitha Samarawickrama, Fatima Sana and Arundhati Reddy, with winners yet to be announced.
- Despite India defending the T20 World Cup, no Indian men’s player made the men’s shortlist.
- Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan topped the T20 World Cup with 383 runs at a 160.25 strike rate and became the first to score two centuries in a single edition.
- England’s Will Jacks logged 192 runs and 11 wickets and earned four Player of the Match awards, while USA pacer Shadley van Schalkwyk took 13 wickets including 4/25 against both India and Pakistan.
- India’s Arundhati Reddy led wicket-taking in a 2-1 T20I series win in Australia, Sri Lanka’s Harshitha Samarawickrama amassed 171 ODI runs in a 2-1 win in the West Indies, and Pakistan’s Fatima Sana starred as an all-rounder in South Africa with a 90 and an unbeaten 47 plus key wickets.