India openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, together with Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu have been nominated for ICC Ladies’s Participant of the Month award for July 2024. Smriti, the left-handed opener and India’s vice-captain, is aiming to make it back-to-back success after profitable the ICC Ladies’s Participant of the Month award in June 2024, after making 273 runs at a median of 68.25 with a strike fee of 139.28 in T20Is in July. She continued her prolific run into July, starting with a career-best 149 within the one-off Take a look at towards South Africa at Chennai. Together with fellow nominee Shafali, she added 292 runs for the primary wicket, which was the highest-ever partnership for the primary wicket in Ladies’s Exams, setting the bottom for India profitable the match by 10 wickets.
She adopted this up with 100 runs from two innings within the T20I collection towards South Africa, together with 54 not out within the ultimate T20I which helped India win the competition by 10 wickets and sq. the collection. Within the Ladies’s Asia Cup, Smriti amassed 173 runs and was the top-scorer for India within the ultimate, making 60 from 47 balls with 10 fours to her identify.
Then again, Shafali earns a nomination after scoring 229 Take a look at runs and 245 T20I runs in July 2024. Throughout her standout opening stand with Smriti within the one-off Take a look at, Shafali turned simply the second Indian lady to hit a double century after the legendary Mithali Raj.
She managed to succeed in the feat in 194 balls, which is now the fastest-ever double hundred made in Ladies’s Exams, and in addition made a brisk 24 not within the second innings. Her 205 within the first innings was the very best rating for India as they posted a report complete of 603/6, the highest-ever complete in Ladies’s Exams, paving the way in which for them to beat South Africa by ten wickets.
After amassing 45 runs within the T20I collection towards South Africa, Shafali turned the second-highest run-getter within the Ladies’s Asia Cup, along with her 200 runs coming at a formidable strike fee of 140.84, which included a quickfire 40 off 29 balls towards arch-rivals Pakistan, and a career-best 81 off 48 balls, with 12 fours and a six towards Nepal.
In the meantime, Chamari loved a career-defining second when she captained Sri Lanka to a memorable triumph within the Ladies’s Asia Cup on residence soil. The left-handed batter hit 304 runs throughout the competitors at a median of 101.33 and a strike fee of 146.85.
Her standout performances included an unbeaten 119 towards Malaysia and two essential half-centuries within the knockout levels – in Sri Lanka’s tense semi-final victory over Pakistan, and the second coming within the ultimate to chase down 166 towards for victory in a sell-out Dambulla stadium.
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