Harmanpreet Kaur created history by entering Wisden’s list, Suryakumar Yadav also got bat

Wisden has released its list of ‘Cricketer of the Year’ players. Indian women’s cricket team captain Haranpreetan Kaur has created history. His name is included in the list of top-5 cricketers. She has become the first woman cricketer from India to enter this list. Apart from him in the list are Tom Blundell (New Zealand), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Matthew Potts (England) and Ben Foakes (England). Let us inform that this list is being released by Wisden every year since 1889.

Harmanpreet Kaur has got this honor because of her brilliant performance last year. He played an excellent inning of 143 runs in 111 balls in the ODI match against England in 2022. Under his captaincy, India won the ODI series on English soil for the first time since 1999. Under the leadership of Harmanpreet, the Indian team made it to the finals of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022. India had to be satisfied with the silver medal after losing to Australia.

Apart from Harmanpreet, star batsman Suryakumar Yadav has also batted. He has been chosen as the Male T20 Cricketer of the Year. Surya had a stellar performance last year and became the number one T20 batsman in the ICC rankings. He is on top right now. Surya touched the figure of one thousand T20 International runs in 2022. He is only the second player to touch this figure in a year. He scored these runs while batting in the middle order at an impressive strike rate of 187.43. He scored centuries against England and Mount New Zealand in the T20 format last year.