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Nasum has been nominated as the ICC’s ‘Cricketer of the Month’

Bangladesh spinner Nasum Ahmed has been nominated for the ICC Player of the Month award. The ICC announced on Wednesday (October 6th) that three cricketers have been nominated for the Player of the Month award for their performance in September. They are Nasum Ahmed of Bangladesh, Sandwip Lamichane of Nepal and Jashkaran Malhotra of USA.

Nasum was nominated for the award as the third Bangladeshi after Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan. The ICC has been announcing the best player of the month award since last January. Meanwhile, Mushfiqur Rahim was selected as the best player of May and Shakib Al Hasan was selected as the best player of July.

 Nasum Ahmed was Bangladesh’s star performer in their home T20I series against New Zealand, leaving the visitors bamboozled with his accurate line and length.

He picked up 8 wickets in the series with a sensational performance of 4/10 in the fourth match. His exploits helped the hosts to emerge victorious with a margin of 3-2 against the visitors.

Sandeep Lamichhane has already impressed one and all with his trickery in his short career so far. He continued this impressive run in the month of September, emerging as the standout bowler in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2. Playing six ODIs, he picked up a staggering 18 wickets at an average of 7.38. His performance against Papua New Guinea, where he ended up with figures of 6/11, grabbed the attention of one and all.

Jaskaran Malhotra of the USA also had a month to remember. He became only the fourth player to hit six sixes in an over in an international fixture.

This feat came against PNG in a CWCL2 fixture in a scintillating knock of 173*. Overall, in six ODIs he scored 261 runs at an average of 87, at a strike rate of 104.40.

Among the women cricketers nominated for September are England’s Charlie Dean, Heather Knight and South Africa’s Lisley Lee.

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