Mohammad Rizwan and Fatima Sana have been nominated by ICC for player of the year awards

What happened: Mohammad Rizwan (@mrizwanpak) and Fatima Sana (@fatima_sana14) of Pakistan have been nominated for the ICC men’s T20I and women’s ODI player of the year award, respectively. Details: Rizwan finished 2021 in third place, despite not being in the top 150 in the ICC’s T20I batting rankings last year. In 29 games, the top-order batter hit a career-high 1,326 runs at an average of 73.66, and a strike rate of 134.89. Sana, on the other side, debuted in 2019 and had only played two One-Day Internationals before the start of this year. However, in 2021, the 20-year-old collected 20 wickets at an average of 24.90 in 13 matches, including one-five wicket haul. She also batted and scored 132 runs, “In the second ODI, Fatima took a wicket and struck an unbeaten 22 but Pakistan lost by 13 runs in the second One-Day International,” the ICC said in a statement. More: Mohammad Rizwan will be competing against Australia’s Mitchel Marsh (@mitchmarsh235), England’s Jos Buttler (@josbuttler), and Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga (@wanindu_49_waniya), meanwhile besides Sana, nominations for the women’s category include Tammy Beaumont (@tammybeau) of England, Lizelle Lee (@lizelle.lee67) of South Africa, and Hayley Matthews (@hkmatthews50) of the West Indies.

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