Deepti Sharma has been nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for October following her all-round contribution against Zimbabwe. Bangladesh’s Sobhana Mostary and Australia’s Annabel Sutherland are the other women’s nominees.
The shortlists were announced on November 5. Marco Jansen, Arafat Minhas and Shai Hope are in contention for the men’s award.
Deepti’s unbeaten century and wickets
Deepti made 106 not out in her only innings of the ODI series against Zimbabwe and took five wickets as India won 3–0. In the preceding T20Is, she scored 49 in her only batting appearance and added two wickets.
Mostary’s 118 against Australia in Brisbane was the highest ODI score by a Bangladesh woman against that opposition. Sutherland contributed 99 runs and six wickets in Australia’s ODI sweep of Bangladesh, alongside her T20I contributions against New Zealand.
Six players in the award race
Jansen’s Test performances, Minhas’ role in Pakistan’s tri-series success and Hope’s unbeaten hundreds earned the men’s nominations. The winners will be decided through the ICC Voting Academy and fan voting; a nomination does not yet make any of the six an award winner.