ICC nominates Mohammad Rizwan for award after spectacular performance

Sports Desk

October 05, 2022

Pakistans wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan plays a shot during the fifth Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and England at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore on September 28, 2022. — AFP — Pakistan's wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan plays a shot during the fifth Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and England at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore on September 28, 2022. — AFP

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has nominated Pakistan's wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan for the Men's Player of the Month (September).

Rizwan, who finished as the top run-scorer in the home T20I series against England, joined Australia's Cameron Green and India's Axar Patel in the list of nominations.

Rizwan scored 316 runs in six matches at an average of 63.20. He scored four half-centuries and had a strike rate of 138.59.

Meanwhile, Green showed true potential and scored 21-ball 52 runs to become the second-fastest Australian to score a fifty in T20Is.

India's Axar bagged the highest eight wickets in the recently concluded home series against Australia.