ICC Nominates Four Players for Men’s Test Player of 2021 Award

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• Dec 28, 2021 | Deleted

Digital Desk: The International Cricket Council announced the nominees for ICC Men’s Test Player of the Year 2021 on Tuesday, with India’s Ravichandran Ashwin among them.

The other players on the nomination list were England captain Joe Root, New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson, and Sri Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne.

The right-handed Indian batsman Ashwin, one of India’s greatest match-winners in the longest format, reasserted his status as one of the world’s best spinners in 2021. Apart from his ball-handling prowess, Ashwin also contributed greatly to the bat.

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The Indian spinner took 52 wickets at an average of 16.23 while scoring 337 runs at 28.08 with one century in eight matches. 

On the other hand, Joe Root, England’s Test captain, has been nominated for the award after scoring 1,708 runs in 15 matches with six hundred in 2021.

Joe Root’s incredible record in 2021 can be summarized by that he has become only the third player in test cricket history to score over 1,700 runs in a calendar year and is just ahead of Mohammad Yousuf and Sir Vivian Richards.

The other nominee is Kyle Jamieson of New Zealand, who took 27 wickets at 17.51 overs in five matches. Moreover, he emerged as one of the most exciting fast bowling prospects in international cricket in 2021.

And the last nominee for the award is Sri Lankan Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 902 runs at 69.38 with four hundred in seven matches.

This year, Karunaratne included a superb century against South Africa in Johannesburg, two hundred against Bangladesh in two matches in Pallekele, including a doubleton, and a century against the West Indies in Galle.