India's Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj nominated for ICC Player of the Month Award for January
Gill, Siraj nominated for ICC Player of the Month Award for January
Following spectacular shows in the white-ball series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the past month, India’s duo of Shubman Gill and fast bowler Mohammed Siraj are nominated for the ICC Player of the Month award for January. New Zealand’s Devon Conway is the third player to be nominated for the particular award. While Shubman had a dream run at least in the ODIs against Sri Lanka and New Zealand, Siraj stood out as India’s best seamer across both formats.
During the final ODI against Sri Lanka, the young Shubman Gill scored his thirdhundred while against New Zealand in the following 1st match of their bilateral series in Hyderabad, he scored his maiden double century– scoring 208. In the 3rd matchat the Holkar Stadium in Indore, Gillcompleted yet another three-figure score (112), ending the New Zealand ODIs with 360 runs to his name, which is the highest-ever for a batter in a three-match ODI series.
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Even against Sri Lanka in the three-match ODI seriesbefore that, Gill had scored 207 runs including a hundred in the final game in Thiruvananthapuram. In total, he scored 567 runs at an average of 113.40 in ODIs in January in addition to scoring 76 runs in T20Is.
Mohammed Siraj, on the other hand, picked up nine wickets in three ODIs against the Lankans that included a match-winning performance of 4-32in the final game. DuringNew Zealand ODIs, Siraj was the second-highest wicket-taker with six wickets to his name. In the first match, it was his spell of four for 46 that helped India win the close clash by 12 runs.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Devon Conway also had a pretty good start to 2023 – where he scored two ODI hundreds – one against Pakistan in Karachi and one against India in Indore. Even in the one Test played last month, Conway slammed a hundred there too – scoring 122 in the first innings at the National Stadium. With three hundreds and two fifties, Conway finished January 2023 with 493 runs in nine international matches.
