Nat Sciver-Brunt has develop into the primary English lady to be honoured as Wisden’s main cricketer on the planet, heading an awards listing that additionally contains Harry Brook and Mark Wooden among the many almanack’s 5 cricketers of the 12 months.
Sciver-Brunt takes high billing within the girls’s recreation following an impressive run of type in 2023, with Australia captain Pat Cummins choosing up the boys’s trophy having led his nation to success in each the World Take a look at Championship and 50-over World Cup. He succeeds Ben Stokes, who has landed the distinguished title 3 times within the final 4 years.
Sciver-Brunt’s star energy was acknowledged by Mumbai Indians in the beginning of the 12 months, when her £320,000 Girls’s Premier League deal made her the UK’s highest-paid feminine workforce athlete and her price solely rose because the calendar unfolded.
- Main girls’s cricketer on the planet: N Sciver-Brunt
- Main males’s cricketer on the planet: P Cummins
- Cricketers of the 12 months: H Brook, M Wooden, A Gardner, M Starc, U Khawaja
- Wisden Trophy: T Head
- Main T20 cricketer on the planet: H Matthews
She hit three ODI centuries in 5 innings, together with two Ashes tons within the house of 72 hours as England got here from 6-0 down to attract the marquee sequence 8-8.
Sciver-Brunt additionally thrashed a 66-ball hundred in opposition to Sri Lanka, a brand new English document, having beforehand been named participant of the ultimate and second high run-scorer within the WPL to justify her enormous price ticket.
In incomes Wisden’s nod, Sciver-Brunt lastly locations an English title on the ladies’s gong, which has been gained 5 instances by Australians within the 10 years since its inception.
There was additionally a definite Ashes flavour to the historic cricketers of the 12 months panel, the coveted once-in-a-career award relationship again to 1889 and targeted on performances in the course of the previous English summer time.
Brook seems on the again of scoring 363 runs at a shade over 40 in his maiden sequence in opposition to the Australians, capped by a fourth-innings flip of 75 within the strain of a must-win dwelling Take a look at at Headingley. The Yorkshireman additionally gained a spot in each limited-overs groups and hit the one males’s century within the third version of The Hundred.
“Harry Brook handed 50 4 instances in the course of the Ashes – extra instances than anybody – and performed essential fingers in England’s wins at Headingley and The Oval,” famous Wisden editor Lawrence Sales space.
“He smashed a document 41-ball century for Northern Superchargers, then pressured his approach into England’s World Cup squad with some breath-taking innings in opposition to New Zealand.”
Wooden, nearly a decade older than Brook at 34 and maybe operating out of probabilities to make the lower, is honoured for a transformative impression on the Ashes contest. Coming into the competition with England 2-0 down, his uncooked tempo helped raise the hosts off the mat in Leeds and he completed with 14 wickets at 20.21 in three undefeated outings in opposition to the previous enemy.
“The choice of Mark Wooden for the Third Take a look at at Headingley turned the Ashes on its head,” Sales space concluded.
“He topped 96mph, took 5 for 34, and pushed Australia on the again foot, actually and figuratively.”
That England didn’t regain the urn with an outright win owed a lot to the efforts Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Starc. They completed an exciting sequence as high run-scorer with 496 and top-wicket-taker with 23, respectively, and in addition take their locations within the cricketer of the 12 months lineage.
Compatriot Ashleigh Gardner joins them, with a 12-wicket haul within the standalone girls’s Ashes Take a look at proving a pivotal contribution.
One more Australian will take custody of the Wisden Trophy for Take a look at efficiency of the 12 months, Travis Head successful out for his decisive 163 within the WTC ultimate in opposition to India at The Oval.
West Indian Hayley Matthews turns into the primary lady to be named main T20 cricketer of the 12 months after seven years.
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