Cricket / Babar Azam and Alyssa Healy elected in April's ICCC 'Players of the Month'

New Delhi. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the names of female and male players who won the April 'Players of the Month' award. In the male player, 'Player of the Month' has been won by Pakistan captain Babar Azam, while in the women's player, 'Player of the Month' has been won by Australia's Alyssa Healy. The ICC released a list of the best performing male and female cricketers across all formats of international cricket for the month of April, with no Indian player getting a place for the first time.

🔸 Three ODIs, 228 runs at 76.00
🔸 Seven T20Is, 305 runs at 43.57
🔥 Became the No.1 ODI batsman

Well done, @babarazam258 for winning the ICC Men's Player of the Month for April 👏#ICCPOTM pic.twitter.com/CuCaodFEk7

— ICC (@ICC) May 10, 2021

Pakistan batsmen Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman were nominated for the International Cricket Council's Best Player of the Month award for April. According to an ICC release, apart from both the Pakistan batsmen, Nepal batsman Kushal Bhurtel was also nominated in the men's category. At the same time, apart from Australia's Alyssa Healy and Megan Schut, New Zealand leg Kasparek got a place in the women's section.

Pakistan captain Babar became the number one batsman in the ICC ODI rankings last month, surpassing Indian captain Virat Kohli. Babar played a match-winning innings of 94 off 82 balls in the third ODI against South Africa, gaining 13 ratings points to reach a career-best 865 points. He also scored a 59-ball 122 in the third T20, which helped Pakistan's team reach the target. At the same time, Jaman Fakhar scored two centuries during the two ODIs against South Africa, including the innings of 193 runs in the second match in Johannesburg.

ICC Voting Academy member Rameez Raja said, "In limited overs cricket, batsmen play in two ways." The first method is to fly the bowling with strength and stamina and the second way is to bat like Babar Azam in which great artistic shots are shot with ease. He was entitled to this award. ''

In women's cricket, Alyssa Healy scored 155 runs in three ODIs against New Zealand at an average of 51.66 and a strike rate of 98.72. She was the top scorer in the series during her team's win. Australia won this series, taking their record consecutive winning streak to 24 matches. In the same series, Megan took seven wickets at an average of 13.14. ICC Voting Academy member Ian Bishop said, "Healy deserves to be named the best ICC player for the month of April." With Australia's great batting, Australia managed to score big in all three matches and chase the target. ''

Let us tell that Kushal of Nepal was the top scorer during his team's title win in the tri-series with presence of Netherlands and Malaysia. He scored 278 runs in five matches with the help of four half-centuries. New Zealand leg played two ODIs against Australia and took a career-best performance in the second match of the series, taking six wickets for 46 runs. He took three wickets in the final match and took a total of nine wickets in the series at an average of 7.77.