Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma Amongst For ICC Girls’s Participant Of The Month Nominees

India openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, together with Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu have been nominated for ICC Girls’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 Girls’s Participant of the Month award in June 2024, after making 273 runs at a mean of 68.25 with a strike price of 139.28 in T20Is in July. She continued her prolific run into July, starting with a career-best 149 within the one-off Check in opposition to 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 Girls’s Checks, setting the bottom for India profitable the match by 10 wickets.

She adopted this up with 100 runs from two innings within the T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa, together with 54 not out within the closing T20I which helped India win the competition by 10 wickets and sq. the sequence. Within the Girls’s Asia Cup, Smriti amassed 173 runs and was the top-scorer for India within the closing, making 60 from 47 balls with 10 fours to her title.

Then again, Shafali earns a nomination after scoring 229 Check runs and 245 T20I runs in July 2024. Throughout her standout opening stand with Smriti within the one-off Check, Shafali grew to become 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 Girls’s Checks, and in addition made a brisk 24 not within the second innings. Her 205 within the first innings was the best rating for India as they posted a file complete of 603/6, the highest-ever complete in Girls’s Checks, paving the best way for them to beat South Africa by ten wickets.

After amassing 45 runs within the T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa, Shafali grew to become the second-highest run-getter within the Girls’s Asia Cup, along with her 200 runs coming at a powerful strike price of 140.84, which included a quickfire 40 off 29 balls in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan, and a career-best 81 off 48 balls, with 12 fours and a six in opposition to Nepal.

In the meantime, Chamari loved a career-defining second when she captained Sri Lanka to a memorable triumph within the Girls’s Asia Cup on residence soil. The left-handed batter hit 304 runs in the course of the competitors at a mean of 101.33 and a strike price of 146.85.

Her standout performances included an unbeaten 119 in opposition to Malaysia and two essential half-centuries within the knockout phases – in Sri Lanka’s tense semi-final victory over Pakistan, and the second coming within the closing to chase down 166 in opposition to for victory in a sell-out Dambulla stadium.

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