ICC announces Women’s Cricket Awards for the year 2017

Australia’s Ellyse Perry has won the inaugural Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Thursday.

The award has been introduced in memory of Heyhoe Flint, one of cricket’s legendary figures, a World Cup winner and ICC Cricket Hall of Famer, who passed in January this year at the age of 77.

Perry, the 27-year-old all-rounder, scored an unbeaten 213 and took three wickets in the one-off Ashes Test in Sydney and, accumulated 905 runs and took 22 wickets in 19 ODIs during the voting period ((between 21 September 2016 and 21 December 2017). She also scored 28 runs and bagged four wickets in four T20 Internationals.

Ellyse Perry 2017 ICC Awards
Source: ICC Twitter

Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite has clinched the ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year Award, while Perry’s team-mate Beth Mooney has won the ICC Women’s T20I Player of the Year and ICC Women’s Emerging Player of the Year awards.

Amy Satterthwaite ICC Awards 2017
Source: ICC Twitter

In the voting period, Satterthwaite scored 1,183 runs in 24 ODIs at an average of 84.5 with four centuries and five half-centuries, and also took 20 wickets.

Beth Mooney ICC Awards 2017
Source: ICC Twitter

Mooney was the leading T20I scorer with 255 runs at a strike-rate of 138.5 in seven matches in the voting period, while she also scored 492 runs in 14 ODIs. In the one-off Ashes Test, she scored 27.

Beth Mooney 2 ICC Awards 2017
Source: ICC Twitter

The qualification criteria for the ICC Emerging Player of the Year was that the player had to be under the age of 26 and not have played more than six ODIs and 10 T20Is prior to the performance period.

ICC Women’s Cricket Awards 2017

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Ellyse Perry (Australia)

ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year: Amy Satterthwaite (New Zealand)

ICC Women’s T20I Player of the Year: Beth Mooney (Australia)

ICC Women’s Emerging Player of the Year: Beth Mooney (Australia)

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