The Indian opener, Smriti Mandhana was on Tuesday named in both the International Cricket Council (ICC) ODI and T20 teams of the year. Mandhana has Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav and Shikha Pandey for the company in the ODI team of the year and all-rounder Deepti Sharma in the T20 squad. The 23-year-old Mandhana has played 51 ODIs and 66 T20Is for India, besides a couple of Test matches.
Mandhana has scored as many as 3476 runs in ODIs and T20Is combinedly. Australia’s Alyssa Healy was chosen as the T20 cricketer of the year following her record-breaking 148 against Sri Lanka earlier this year. The ODI cricketer of the year honor went to Australia’s Ellyse Perry, who scored 441 runs at an average of 73.50 and took 21 wickets at 13.52. Australian Meg Lanning was chosen as captain of both the ODI and T20 sides.
Australia's Meg Lanning has also been named the captain of the 2019 ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year 🙌#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/idqWzmN93m
— ICC (@ICC) December 17, 2019
Here's the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year, with Meg Lanning as the captain!#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/LaAnZE5YH3
— ICC (@ICC) December 17, 2019
Perry bagged the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year as she became the first player to complete 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in T20I cricket, was also named as the ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year.
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She won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the second time in three years. After receiving the award, she said, “It’s an amazing honor and I’m a little bit shocked, given how many amazing performances there have been across the year. It’s amazing to be acknowledged and I do truly appreciate it. It’s so exciting that the T20 World Cup is here at home early next year and with the target of the final at the MCG it could be a really special moment in the game’s history.”
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The emerging cricketer of the year award went to Thailand’s Chanida Sutthiruang. The 26-year-old pacer took 12 wickets at this year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup qualifier.
ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year (in batting order)
- Alyssa Healy (wk) – Australia
- Smriti Mandhana – India
- Tamsin Beaumont – England
- Meg Lanning (c) – Australia
- Stafanie Taylor – West Indies
- Ellyse Perry – Australia
- Jess Jonassen – Australia
- Shikha Pandey – India
- Jhulan Goswami – India
- Megan Schutt – Australia
- Poonam Yadav – India
ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year (in batting order)
- 1. Alyssa Healy (wk) – Australia
- Danielle Wyatt – England
- Meg Lanning (c) – Australia
- Smriti Mandhana – India
- Lizelle Lee – South Africa
- Ellyse Perry – Australia
- Deepti Sharma – India
- Nida Dar – Pakistan
- Megan Schutt – Australia
- Shabnim Ismail – South Africa
- Radha Yadav – India
