Shreyas Iyer has been nominated for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s Player of the Month Award for February. The other nominees in the men’s category are UAE’s Vriitya Aravind and Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee.
The names were chosen via a combination of votes from fans and an independent ICC panel of former players and journalists from over a dozen countries.
His performance last month was nothing less than brilliant. In the third and final ODI of the same tour, he scored a match-winning 80 off 111 balls against West Indies. It was followed by a 16-ball 25 in the last T20I of the same tour. Virat Kohli’s usual position at No.3 in the T20Is against Sri Lanka was the setting for three consecutive unbeaten fifties to equal Kohli’s record. He scored 204 runs at an average of 174.35.
Chennai-born Aravind was named Player of the Tournament at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A, held in Oman in February. The 19-year-old wicketkeeper-batter scored 267 runs at an average of 89.09 and a strike rate of 154.33 in five games to help the UAE qualify for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022.
Airee earned himself the nomination at the same tournament. With 159 runs and six wickets, the 22-year-old all-rounder contributed to the victory. Nepal finished third thanks to his efforts. In the quadrangular series against Oman, the UAE, and Ireland, he also scored 142 runs and had a four-for.
