KARACHI: Pakistan’s Nida Dar has won ICC Player of the Month award in the women’s category. She was in the race with two Indian players like Jemima Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma.
Besides her, India batter Virat Kohli has been named the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for October 2022 after some outstanding performances in the shortest format of the game.
Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza and South Africa’s David Miller were the other nominees for the award along with Kohli, but the Indian batter beat them to claim the title.
Nida Dar, it may be mentioned here, delivered an outstanding performance for Pakistan in the Women’s Asia Cup in October. She amassed 145 runs in six matches, at a superb average of 72.50, and also claimed eight wickets at a meagre 14.87 runs a piece.
Her exploits include a superb all-round display against India where she scored an unbeaten 56 and went on to claim bowling figures of 2/23 to guide Pakistan to a memorable victory. Dar’s consistent performances in a tough batting and bowling role throughout the tournament helped Pakistan in reaching the semi-finals, where they lost to Sri Lanka by just a run.
Nida Dar, after winning the title, said “it was great to be nominated for the award, and to win it is very special to me. I wish we could have won the Women’s Asia Cup, but I am happy that we as a team are performing, and the recent series win against Ireland at home shows the commitment the girls are putting into their game.”
She said “I take great pride in representing my country and my aim is to contribute in my team winning as much as I can.”
