The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the list of the best players for the year 2021. Four players have found a place on the ICC list, including India team star R Ashwin, England captain Joe Root, New Zealand fast pitcher Kyle Jameson and Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne. Now any of these four will be chosen as the best player of the year. With this announcement by the ICC, there has been a scandal in Pakistan. Cricket fans have started to wonder why Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hasan Ali didn’t get a spot on it.
In this list, Pakistani sports journalist Saj Sadiq has given his answer through a tweet. He wrote that 4 players were nominated for the ICC Test Player of the Year. Joe Root, R Ashwin, Kyle Jameson, and Dimuth Karunaratne. I am amazed that after Ashwin this year, Shaheen Shah Afridi, who took the 47 highest lands in Trials, does not appear on this list.
4 nominees for ICC Test Player of the Year: Joe Root, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kyle Jamieson and Dimuth Karunaratne. Surprised that Shaheen Shah Afridi, who took 47 wickets (second highest) with an average of 17.06, is not included #Cricket
– Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) December 28, 2021
Another Pakistani sports journalist, Arslan Siddiqui, has also raised questions about the ICC’s nomination. He tweeted that Shaheen Shah Afridi played brilliantly in 2021. He took 47 wickets in 9 tests. He is also the second tallest carrier this year after Ashwin. Still, he was not considered worthy of a nomination. This is really amazing. Hassan Ali’s name is not even on this list. He took 41 wickets in 8 games with an average of 16.07. His average is even better than Ashwin (16.67) and Shaheen Afridi (17.06).
Four nominees for the ICC Test Player Award 2021
– Arsalan Siddique (@ Sportsjourno01) December 28, 2021
According to the ICC, R Ashwin has taken 52 wickets in 8 games this year. Apart from this, he has also scored 337 runs with an average of more than 28. It includes a century.
England captain Joe Root is the leading scorer of runs in test cricket this year. So far he has scored 1708 runs in 15 test matches over 6 centuries. He is the third player to score more than 1,700 runs in a calendar year. Mohammad Yusuf is at number one and Vivian Richards is at number two.
– New Zealand player Kyle Jamieson’s performance has also been very good in test cricket this year. He has taken 27 wickets in five games. Although the contribution of 105 races has also been contributed.
The year 2021 has also been a very good one for Sri Lankan player Dimuth Karunaratne. So far, 902 runs have been scored with Karunaratne’s bat in seven games. During this, it has also marked four centuries.
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