{"id":452439,"date":"2024-12-30T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T04:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=452439"},"modified":"2024-12-30T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T04:10:21","slug":"babar-azam-nominated-for-icc-mens-t20i-cricketer-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-azam-nominated-for-icc-mens-t20i-cricketer-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam nominated for ICC Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LAHORE<br \/>\nPakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam has been named among the nominees for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year Award.<br \/>\nBabar, who currently is the top-ranked one-day international (ODI) batter and is at the sixth spot on the T20I rankings, is nominated alongside India\u2019s Arshdeep Singh, Australia\u2019s Travis Head and Zimbabwe\u2019s Sikandar Raza.<br \/>\nThe nomination comes as despite a mixed year with the bat, the former Pakistan skipper scored 738 runs in 24 matches at a decent average of 33.54 with the help of six half-centuries and almost a hundred boundaries.<br \/>\nThe right-handed batter\u2019s best performance came in the three-match away series against Ireland ahead of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024 when he scored 75 from 42 balls with the help of six fours and five sixes at an exemplary strike rate of 178.57.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, nominee India\u2019s left-arm pacer Arshdeep enjoyed a stellar year in the format, picking up 36 wickets in 18 matches at a magnificent average of 13.5 and the best bowling figures of 4-9.<br \/>\nHis best performance in the outgoing year came in the T20 World Cup final against South Africa, when he, alongside ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah led India to glory with tight death bowling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Pakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam has been named among the nominees for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year Award. Babar, who currently is the top-ranked one-day international (ODI) batter and is at the sixth spot on the T20I rankings, is nominated alongside India\u2019s Arshdeep Singh, Australia\u2019s Travis Head and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babar Azam nominated for ICC Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year award<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-azam-nominated-for-icc-mens-t20i-cricketer-of-the-year-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babar Azam nominated for ICC Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Pakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam has been named among the nominees for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men\u2019s T20I Cricketer of the Year Award. 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