Motie nominated for ICC Participant-of-the-Month honour

Rookie West Indies left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie is one among three gamers nominated for the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) males’s Participant-of-the-Month for February.

The 27-year-old was named alongside England batsman Harry Brook and veteran India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, within the nominations introduced Tuesday by cricket’s world governing physique.

In solely his third Take a look at final month, Motie snatched a file 13 for 99 to spin West Indies to an inning and four-run victory over Zimbabwe within the second and remaining Take a look at in Bulawayo.

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Motie’s efficiency earned the guests a 1-0 sequence win following a draw within the opening Take a look at.

The Guyanese’s figures have been the very best by a West Indies spinner in Checks – surpassing the legendary likes of Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine, and Lance Gibbs.

Motie completed the two-Take a look at sequence with 19 wickets to earn the Participant-of-the-Sequence award and his first-ever ICC Participant-of-the-Month nomination.

Gudakesh Motie, who made his Take a look at debut final June in opposition to Bangladesh, has picked up 19 wickets in his profession at an impressive common of 15.89.

He has taken 136 wickets from 37 first-class matches at 20.41 apiece.

Brook, in the meantime, scored closely in England’s latest Take a look at sequence in New Zealand, gathering 329 runs at a median of 82, together with a career-best 186 and two half-centuries.

The 24-year-old has performed solely six Checks.

Jadeja, 34, shone within the three-match sequence in opposition to Australia, choosing up 21 wickets at an astonishing 13.9 runs apiece because the hosts claimed a 2-1 sequence win.

A left-arm spinner, Jadeja has taken 263 wickets from 63 Checks.

Australian Ashleigh Gardner, England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, and South African Laura Wolvaardt are the three gamers nominated for the ladies’s Participant-of-the-Month award.

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