Harmanpreet Kaur & Suryakumar Yadav named Wisden T20I player of 2022: The Indian duo of Suryakumar Yadav and Harmanpreet Kaur has added another feather to their outstanding crown after bagging the Wisden Almanack’s leading cricketer in the World awards. Suryakumar was named Wisden Almanack’s top T20I cricketer, while Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian woman to be named Cricketer of the Year award.
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Overview of the news:
- Suryakumar’s T20I season in 2022 was virtually like a net session. He amassed 1164 runs for pleasure wherever he went, at a fantastic strike rate of 187.43. This featured 68 sixes, a record for a T20I hitter in a calendar year. His two centuries and nine half-centuries, three of which came in the 2022 T20 World Cup, helped India win 28 of their 40 games last year. His maiden T20 hundred came in 2022 with a 55-ball 117 at Nottingham.
- As for Harman, she is one of the five Cricketers of the Year announced in the 2023 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. A well-deserved honour for the champion of Indian women’s cricket in 2022, having led the Women in Blue to a 3-0 ODI series win on English soil, the first since 1999, and a Silver medal finish at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She piled on 754 ODI runs, including an unbeaten 143 in the England ODIs and 524 T20I runs — spoke for itself as she continues to make history and rewrite it with her talent and commitment to the sport.