Shubman Gill, Steve Smith and Glenn Phillips Nominated for ICC Player of the Month
All the three players have been nominated for their performances in the month of February.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] March 7: Shubman Gill, Steve Smith, and Glenn Phillips have been nominated for the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for February 2025. Shubman is an opening batter and he is in great form especially in the ODI format. He has been done some valuable contributions which has helped India to reach the final of ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025.
Recently, India played three match ODI series against England. Shubman Gill showed greater consistency throughout the series. He scored 87 runs in the first match, 60 runs in the second match. In the final match of the series, he scored a fine century and made 112 runs. He carried his same form in the ongoing ICC Men’s Champions Trophy. He scored century in the first match against Bangladesh and he scored 101 and remained not out. He is currently the No. 1 ranked ODI batter.
Australian batter Steve Smith captained Australia in the ongoing ICC Men’s Champions Trophy. After Australia’s shocking defeat in the semi final against India, he made the decision to retire from ODI cricket. He was stand in captain in the two match Test series against Sri Lanka.
In the first Test match Steve Smith scored 141 runs after that he scored 131 runs in the second match of the series. Australia easily won the series and he was named as Player of the series. He even came into top five Test batters in the ICC Player Rankings.
Speaking of Glenn Phillips, the all-rounder got ready for the Champions Trophy in style, scoring valuable runs in the Tri-Nation series against Pakistan and South Africa. He first registered unbeaten scores of 28 and 20. He followed it up with a fantastic 106-run knock in Lahore.
Phillips began his campaign in the Champions Trophy with a brisk 61 runs in 39 balls against Pakistan. The exact match saw the right-handed batter defying gravity to make a phenomenal catch and send Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan back to the hut.
In the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for February, Australia’s Alana King and Annabel Sutherland have been nominated alongside Thailand’s Thipatcha Putthawong.
Alana King was phenomenal in Women’s Ashes. She was exceptional in the lone Test against England as he took the key wickets of Nat Sciver-Brunt, Dunkley and Wyatt-Hodge in the middle order. She took four wickets in the first innings while returning with five wickets in the second.
Speaking of Annabel Sutherland, she scored 163 runs against England in the one-off Test, and she became the first woman to score a Test century at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in her emphatic Player of the Match performance.
Lastly, speaking of Thipatcha Putthawong, she topped the wicket-taking charts as her side sealed the Nepal Women’s Tri-Nation Series. Putthawong took 14 wickets, including four successive hauls of three or more wickets.
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