India’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah can become ICC’s Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year in 2024. He has been nominated by the ICC in both categories, looking at his performance, he is at the top of the race to win the award. Bumrah took the most 86 wickets in 2024 in all three formats, he also has the most 71 wickets in Tests. His sharp bowling also helped India win the T20 World Cup. He was the Player of the Tournament. Root and Head also in the race for Cricketer of the Year
On Monday, the ICC shortlisted 4 players each for Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year. The Cricketer of the Year award is given to the player who performs best in all three formats. For this he gets the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. Apart from Bumrah, England’s Joe Root, Harry Brook and Australia’s Travis Head are also in the race. Bumrah showed excellent performance in international cricket
This year Bumrah’s performance in international cricket was excellent. He played 13 Tests and took the most 71 wickets. His average was just 14.92. 6 wickets for 45 runs was his best performance in an innings. He did not play a single ODI this year. Bumrah also played an important role in helping India win the T20 World Cup 2024. He took a total of 15 wickets in 8 matches of the tournament. In the final too, he took important wickets of Reeza Hendricks and Marco Jansen. He also received the Player of the Tournament award for this performance. He can win the award due to top class performance in 2 formats. Root and Brook also included in Test Cricketer of the Year
Bumrah will also face England’s Joe Root and Harry Brook in the race for Test Cricketer of the Year. The fourth name here is Kamindu Mendis of Sri Lanka. Joe Root scored 1556 runs in 17 Tests at an average of 55.57. He also played a career best innings of 262 runs against Pakistan. On the other hand, Brook scored 1100 runs in 12 Tests at an average of 55. The fourth name for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is Travis Head who scored 608 runs in 9 Tests at an average of 40.53. He also scored 539 runs in 15 T20s at a strike rate of 178.47. Kamindu Mendis scored 1049 runs in 9 Tests this year by scoring 5 centuries. Bumrah proved to be effective in Australia
In the first match of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) against Australia, Jasprit Bumrah took 8 wickets and single-handedly won the Test match for India. While in the first innings of this Test match, the Indian team could score only 150 runs. Bumrah was also captaining. Bumrah is the top wicket-taker in BGT 2024-25. He has taken 30 wickets in 4 matches so far. Kamindu Mendis can also become Test Cricketer of the Year
Sri Lankan all-rounder Kamindu Mendis has scored 1049 runs in 9 Tests this year at an average of 74.92. He has been nominated for the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year. He is jointly the third fastest player in the world to score 1000 Test runs. He took the same 13 innings as Sir Don Bradman to reach this feat. Mendis played brilliantly in the 2-0 Test series win against New Zealand. He scored 2 centuries in 2 Tests. At Galle ground, he scored an unbeaten 182 off 250 balls. Which is his best Test score till date. He was also named Player of the Match for this performance.
