Smriti Mandhana nominated for ICC Player of the Month

Charismatic top-order batter Smriti Mandhana has been nominated for the ICC Ladies’s Participant of the Month for October after her string of good performances helped India to carry their maiden Ladies’s ODI World Cup Trophy.

The India vice-captain can be vying for the honour together with South African skipper Laura Wolvaardt and dynamic Australia batter Ashleigh Gardner.

Mandhana led the Indian cost on the prime, and her partnerships with opening batter Pratika Rawal created fairly a buzz within the showpiece occasion.

Mandhana, 29, had a comparatively quiet begin, however quickly got here into her personal with a blistering 80 towards seven-time champions Australia, and adopted it up with a combative 88 towards England.

Although India misplaced each the matches, it was clear that the India mainstay was within the zone. Within the must-win encounter towards New Zealand, Mandhana stood as much as the problem smashing an excellent 109, and stitching a match-winning partnership of 212 with Rawal.

Within the remaining towards South Africa, she gave a strong begin by scoring 45 and shared a century partnership with Shafali Verma on the prime.

South African skipper Wolvaardt guided her facet from the humiliation of a 10-wicket loss to England within the World Cup opener to the title showdown with India in Navi Mumbai.

Wolvaardt performed a defining position together with her 70 towards India within the league section, earlier than Nadine de Klerk’s artful batting took the sport away from the hosts. The South African stalwart then hit half-centuries towards Sri Lanka and Pakistan because the Proteas made it to the knock-out spherical.

Towards England within the semifinal,Wolvaardt got here up with an all-time nice Cricket World Cup knock by smashing 169 as South Africa’s 319 turned the tables on the-four-time champions.

Wolvaardt went on to attain 101 within the remaining however on the day, India’s all-round effort put paid to South Africa’s hopes of a maiden World up title.’ Australia’s Gardner made good-looking contributions in just about each sport, producing centuries en route wins towards New Zealand (115) and England (104 not out).

Her seven scalps within the month confirmed that she was a helpful asset with the ball as properly.