India’s Jasprit Bumrah in motion throughout ICC T20 World Cup 2024 Ultimate between India and South Africa on June 29, 2024. — ReutersÂ
NEW DELHI: Including one other feather in his cape, India tempo bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been named males’s cricketer of the yr for 2024, the Worldwide Cricket Council introduced Tuesday, a day after he gained the Take a look at award.
Bumrah, 31, ended final yr as the highest wicket-taker in Assessments with 71 wickets and impressed India to the T20 World Cup title in June.
“The year 2024 was incredibly special — winning the men’s T20 World Cup 2024 in Barbados and also contributing as much as I could across all three formats of the game,” mentioned Bumrah.
“I dedicate this award to everyone who has believed in me, the power of hard work and dreams, and to bowlers worldwide who continue to inspire and strive for excellence.”
Bumrah beat England batters Harry Brook and Joe Root in addition to Australia’s Travis Head to the award — the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, given by the game’s governing physique.
He’s fifth Indian to obtain the award after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
Bumrah has claimed 443 wickets in 204 worldwide matches since his debut for India in 2016.
New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr was voted girls’s cricketer of the yr to win the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, after she gained the T20 cricketer of the yr on Saturday.
Kerr turns into the primary New Zealander to win the trophy after she impressed the White Ferns to their girls’s T20 World Cup victory in October final yr.
The 24-year-old overcame South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt, Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu and Australia’s Annabel Sutherland to win the award.
