New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI): Indian batter Shubman Gill introduced the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month for September 2023 by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday.
After accruing 480 ODI runs at a mean of 80 in September, Gill overcame quick bowler Mohammed Siraj and England’s opener Dawid Malan to win the prize.
Gill scored 302 runs at a mean of 75.5 on the Asia Cup, together with an unbeaten 27 when India defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.
With 178 runs in two innings, the right-hand batter was spectacular towards Australia within the ODI sequence at residence earlier than the World Cup.
He scored a century towards Australia (104) within the second of these ODIs, after smashing a ton towards Bangladesh (121) through the Asia Cup for 2 lots of in September.
Moreover, Gill scored three half-centuries within the earlier month and was solely out for lower than fifty from eight innings on two events.
The 24-year-old is ranked No. 2 within the ICC Males’s ODI Batting Rankings and has a exceptional report in ODIs, scoring 1917 runs in 35 video games at a mean of 66.1 and a strike price of 102.84.
Gill has missed India’s opening matches of the Cricket World Cup as a result of sickness however looms as pivotal to the hosts’ probabilities of lifting the trophy for the primary time since 2011.
Reacting to his award win, Gill mentioned as quoted by ICC, “I’m delighted to have gained the ICC Participant of the Month award for the month of September. It is an amazing privilege to characterize India on the worldwide stage and contribute in direction of the staff’s trigger. This award will additional encourage me to proceed to hunt excellence and make the nation proud.
“I managed to make a helpful contribution in direction of the staff which had the fortune of successful the Asia Cup 2023 after which, observe it up with an ODI sequence win towards Australia in September. I take this chance to thank all my teammates, household and the coaches, with out whom this achievement wouldn’t have been attainable.” (ANI)
