Suryakumar Yadav has been named T20I Cricketer of the Year for 2022 by the ICC in its annual awards.
In the 2022 calendar year, Suryakumar scored 1164 runs in 31 T20I innings at a strike rate of 187.43 and an average of 46.56 with two centuries and nine fifties. This included three back-to-back half-centuries in September–October in matches against Australia and South Africa.
Overall, he has 1578 runs in 43 T20I innings at a strike rate of 180.34 and an average of 46.41, including three hundreds and 13 half-centuries since making his debut in the format in March 2021.
Suryakumar became only the second batsman in 2022 to score over 1000 runs in a calendar year and ended the year as the highest run-scorer in the format, as well as the No. 1 T20I batsman in the world when he surpassed Mohammad Rizwan. left behind In early November.
In 2022, Suryakumar also hit 68 sixes in T20Is, the most number of sixes by an individual in a year.
Three centuries to Suryakumar’s name now puts him joint second for century-scorers in T20Is, behind Rohit Sharma’s four, with Colin Munro and Glenn Maxwell the only other batsmen from full-member teams to score three .
The ICC’s recognition came when Suryakumar was one of three Indians in the ICC T20I team of the year, along with Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya. India failed to make it to the title round of the 2022 T20 World Cup, losing to England by ten wickets in the semi-finals, but Suryakumar had an outstanding tournament individually. he finished third
run-scorers chartWith 239 runs in six innings, he is behind Kohli (296 in six innings) and Max O’Dowd (242 runs in eight innings). Suryakumar scored his runs
Strike Rate 189.68Best by a specialist batsman, and hit three half-centuries.
