Ellyse Perry won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2019. It was a wonderful year for the Australian champion all-rounder across all the three formats. She also won the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2019. Her teammate, wicket-keeper batter, Alyssa Healy won the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2019.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the awards on December 17, 2019.
ICC also named Australian top-order batter Meg Lanning as the captain for the T20I and ODI teams of the year.
Thailand’s right-arm seamer Chanida Sutthiruang won the Emerging Cricketer of the Year award.
Chanida’s performance of 12 wickets for just 68 runs in the 2019 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament, for the most part, helped Thailand qualify for T20 Cricket World Cup 2020. It is the first time a team from Thailand (men’s or women’s) will take part in a Cricket World Cup of any format.
Coming back to Ellyse Perry’s performances in the year 2019, she played one Test and scored 192 runs in that Test scoring one ton and one half-ton in the two innings. In the ODI format, she scored 441 runs in 12 matches with two hundreds and two fifties at an amazing average of 73.50. And she also took 21 wickets in those 12 matches at an average of 13.52, which included the national record-breaking spell of 7/22 against England in the Women’s Ashes earlier this year.
Really difficult opening 10 overs for us as Perry impresses with the ball
Scorecard: https://t.co/hk0Sh00EVD#ENGvAUS pic.twitter.com/GRLbx8tGjV
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 7, 2019
“It’s an amazing honor and I’m a little bit shocked, given how many amazing performances there have been across the year,” Ellyse Perry after the announcement of the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the Women’s Cricketer of the year. This is Perry’s second award in this category in the last three years. She had won the award in 2017 too.
“It’s amazing to be acknowledged and I do truly appreciate it. It’s a really nice way to finish the year on a personal note,” Perry added while speaking to the ICC.
The ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year award is given in memory of Rachael Heyhoe-Flint who played for England’s women’s cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She also captained the side from 1966 to 1978 and was the captain when they won the Inaugural Women’s ODI World Cup in 1973. She was a great speaker, businesswoman, and philanthropist too.
Last year it was India’s Smriti Mandhana who had won the ICC Cricketer of the Year and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year award.
Australian wicket-keeper batter Alyssa Healy won the ICC T20I Cricketer of the Year for the second year in a row.
Alyssa Healy entered the record books in October, scoring a world record 148* off 61 balls against Sri Lanka – the highest score by a woman in T20Is. It was her first T20I century. She reached her half-century off 25 balls and her maiden hundred off just 46. It was the fastest century ever by an Australian man or woman. The earlier record belonged to Aaron Finch who scored his hundred in 47 balls.
“The Australian women’s team had a fantastic 12-month period and we played some really consistent T20 cricket,” Healy said.
“Whilst the individual award is really nice for me personally, I think it was great to see our team play so well throughout that 12-month period, especially leading into a home World Cup in 2020.”
Meg Lanning expressed her thoughts after being named as the captain of the ODI and T20I Teams of the Year, saying, “It’s a huge honor to be named captain of the ICC ODI and T20 Teams of the Year alongside some incredible players,”
“It’s been an amazing year for the Australian team and we’re looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead in 2020.
“A home T20 World Cup is an opportunity that doesn’t come along often, but we are looking forward to and embracing the challenge of performing well in front of our home crowd,” she concluded.
The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup will begin in Sydney, Australia on 21 February. The tournament final is scheduled to be played on International Women’s day, 8 March 2020. And the current number 1 T20I and ODI side Australia will look to defend the title in their own backyard.
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