Haris Rauf reacts after dismissing Australia’s Jake Fraser-McGurk in the course of the second T20I match between Australia and Pakistan on the Sydney Cricket Floor (SCG) in Sydney on Nov 16, 2024. — AFP
Pakistan’s Haris Rauf has received the ICC Males’s Participant of the Month award for November 2024 following his essential function within the Inexperienced Shirts victory in opposition to Australia.
The Pakistani pacer fired on all cylinders on the tour of Australia, snapping up 10 wickets throughout three ODIs to steer his group to a primary ODI sequence win Down Underneath in 22 years.
Rauf capped off the month of November with an total tally of 18 wickets, and scooped the month-to-month award over India’s Jasprit Bumrah and South Africa’s Marco Jansen.
The 31-year-old’s standout efficiency got here within the second ODI in opposition to Australia. As Pakistan trailed 1-0 within the three-match sequence, Rauf produced a fiery pace-bowling show in Adelaide, claiming figures of 5/29.
Rauf’s spell, marking his second five-wicket haul for Pakistan, noticed the hosts bundled out for a mere 163, as Pakistan bounced again into the sequence with an emphatic nine-wicket triumph.
Within the decisive third ODI, the right-arm fast common one other couple of wickets and was named Participant of the Collection as Pakistan emerged winners by a 2-1 margin.
Within the three T20Is that adopted, Rauf seized 5 extra dismissals, together with a four-wicket haul in Sydney, his fourth in T20Is.
Later within the month, as Pakistan toured Zimbabwe, Rauf clinched three extra wickets from as many ODIs because the guests got here from behind to clinch a 2-1 sequence win.
