London (UK), : Australia captain Pat Cummins and England all-rounder Nat Siver-Brunt have been named the Wisden Leading Cricketers in the World in the 2024 edition of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac, published on Tuesday.
According to ESPN, the Australian pacer and captain in both Test and ODI formats led his team to the front as they overcame a stiff challenge from India to win their maiden ICC World Test Championship and then their sixth ICC Cricket World Cup title in June. Ahmedabad in November. He played a crucial role in rescuing the Ashes from home by drawing the series 2-2 in England.
Cummins is the first Aussie since Michael Clarke to receive the top honor and he succeeds England captain Ben Stokes who won the honor three times in 2020, 2021 and 2023. He took 42 wickets and 254 crucial in 11 Tests last year. Runs at an average of 15.87. In 24 international matches, he took 59 wickets and scored 422 runs at an average of 21.10. Within this 422 runs are many small, but impressive batting contributions throughout the Ashes and the Cricket World Cup.
Syver Brunt is recognized as the greatest female cricketer because of her role in the Women’s Ashes. He was instrumental in England’s series wins in the white-ball leg of the competition, scoring two back-to-back centuries in ODIs.
In six ODIs last year, he scored 393 runs at an average of 131.00, with three tons and three wickets. In two Tests, he scored 137 runs in four innings, with a best score of 78 and also took one wicket. In 10 T20Is, he scored 364 runs at an average of 45.50 with three fifties. He took five wickets in the shortest format.
After that, she scored a record-breaking 66-ball century against Sri Lanka, the fastest century by an England women’s player in ODI history. Her all-round appeal was recognized by Indian T20 franchise Mumbai Indians, who paid 3,20,000 pounds to secure her services in 2023. She was part of the MI team that won the inaugural Women’s Premier League in India. With 332 runs in 10 matches, including three fifties and 10 wickets, he played a crucial role in the victory of the Blue and Gold franchise.
Three Australian players have been named among the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year, including Mitchell Starc, Usman Khawaja and Ashleigh Gardner. England’s Harry Brook and Mark Wood also feature in this list. All these players put in outstanding performances throughout the Ashes, especially the men’s and women’s.
In the only Ashes Test against Australia, Gardner took 12 wickets and helped his side earn four points from the Test win which helped them retain their Ashes crown. She is the tenth female player to receive the honour, dating back to 1889, and the first Australian female player to be part of the list since star all-rounder Ellis Perry in 2020. She was also the ‘player of the tournament’ in Australia’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 victory, scoring 110 runs and taking 10 wickets in five matches at an average of 36.66.
Australia’s opener Khawaja emerged as the leading run scorer in the men’s Ashes with 496 runs, including a century, in the Edgbaston Test. In 13 Tests, he scored 1,210 runs at an average of 52.60 with three centuries and six fifties.
Starc was the top bowler in the competition with 23 wickets. He took 16 wickets in the 2023 World Cup, including two match-winning spells in the semi-final and final against South Africa and India respectively. He took 38 wickets in nine Tests last year. He took 63 wickets in 23 international matches last year.
Brooke, the breakout England batsman, scored 363 runs in five Ashes Tests. After England trailed 2–0 in the series, his 75 was instrumental in England’s Leeds Test win, marking the start of a remarkable comeback by the Three Lions. In five matches, he scored 363 runs at an average of 40.33 with four fifties.
In eight Tests last year, Brook scored 701 runs at an average of 53.92 with one century and six fifties. In 32 internationals last year, he scored 1,280 runs at an average of 38.78, scoring a century and 10 fifties in 38 innings. He scored 169 runs including a half-century in six matches of the Cricket World Cup.
Wood was England’s star and his 14 wickets in three matches, including scorching spells against Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja, were highlights of the series. These were the only Tests he played last year. In 13 matches throughout the year, Wood took 23 wickets.
Head was awarded the Wisden Trophy, an honor given for the best Test performance of the year. The explosive left-hander scored 163 off 174 balls against India in the WTC final in UK.
West Indies all-rounder Hayley Mathews won the prestigious T20 Cricketer of the Year award after securing eight consecutive Player of the Match awards. In these matches, he averaged 88 with the bat and scored at a strike rate of 144.
The compelling nature of the Ashes battle has been a constant theme of this year’s almanac, with England’s ultra-aggressive “baseball” approach to the series already fueling demand for this summer’s Test series, Booth points out in the editor’s notes. West Indies.
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