England batter Joe Root and all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt have been shortlisted for the 2023 ICC Awards.
Yorkshire’s Root has been nominated for the Males’s Check Cricketer of the Yr.
Sciver-Brunt has been shortlisted for the Girls’s Cricketer of Yr award and can also be nominated for the Girls’s ODI Cricketer of the Yr.
England’s left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone can also be among the many nominees for the Girls’s T20 Cricketer of the Yr.
Former Check captain Root scored 787 runs at a median of 65.58 in 2023.
He performed a key position in England’s drawn Ashes sequence, ending the yr with two centuries and 5 half-centuries, together with an unbeaten 118 within the first Check in opposition to Australia.
Becoming a member of Root on the four-person shortlist are India all-rounder Ravi Ashwin and Australian batters Travis Head and Usman Khawaja.
Sciver-Brunt is nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy after scoring 794 runs and taking 9 wickets throughout all three codecs.
She scored 393 runs in simply 5 ODI innings, together with centuries in two of the three 50-over matches within the multi-format Girls’s Ashes.
Sciver-Brunt is up in opposition to Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu, Australian all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner and New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr for the ODI award.
Athapaththu and Gardner are additionally nominated for the Girls’s Cricketer of the Yr award, together with Australia batter Beth Mooney.
Ecclestone makes the Girls’s T20 shortlist after choosing up 23 wickets, placing her in competition alongside Athapaththu, West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews and Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry.
Nevertheless, no England participant has made the shortlist for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy given to the ICC Males’s Cricketer of the Yr.
Head is included together with Australia’s World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins and Indian duo Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja.
England quick bowler Lauren Bell has made the four-player shortlist for the Rising Girls’s Cricketer of the Yr after taking 22 worldwide wickets throughout all codecs.
