Abhishek Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav nominated for Player of the month:Smriti maintains top spot in Women’s ODI batters rankings, Harmanpreet loses 2 places

ICC has nominated two Indian players for the Men’s Player of the Month. It includes the names of Asia Cup’s top scorer Abhishek Sharma and top wicket-taker Kuldeep Yadav. Apart from these two, the third name is Zimbabwe’s opener Brian Bennett. Abhishek Sharma was Asia Cup’s top batter Indian team’s young batter Abhishek Sharma scored the most runs in September. In the Asia Cup, he scored a total of 314 runs in 7 T20 matches. This included three half-centuries. His strike rate was also more than 200. On the back of this performance, India won the Asia Cup title and Abhishek was chosen as the best player of the tournament. The special thing was that he achieved the most rating points in the T20 International rankings. He currently has 931 points. Kuldeep Yadav took 17 wickets Kuldeep Yadav, who took the most wickets in the Asia Cup, is also in the race for Player of the Month. He took 17 wickets in the tournament. His economy rate was 6.27. He also took 4 wickets each in 2 matches of the tournament. Brian Bennett scored 497 runs Zimbabwe’s Brian Bennett was in brilliant form throughout September. In the African Qualifiers for the T20 World Cup, he scored 497 runs in 9 matches at an average of 55.22 and a strike rate of 165.66. He scored 72, 65 and 111 in the first 3 innings of this tournament. Smriti Mandhana maintains top spot in Women’s ODI Batters Ranking ICC’s weekly women’s ranking has been updated. India’s left-hand batter Smriti Mandhana remains the number 1 batter. However, captain Harmanpreet Kaur dropped 2 positions. Among bowlers, Deepti Sharma has also reached sixth position. In the teams standings’, India Women remain in the third position.