July 2024 ICC Men’s Player of the Month nominees revealed

Three July 2024 players were shortlisted for the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award. England’s Gus Atkinson Gus Atkinson had a thrilling Test debut in James Anderson’s final international match at Lord’s. Atkinson first impressed in his maiden Test, taking 12 wickets, including five in each innings. The 26-year-old bowled out the West Indies for 121 in the first innings with 7/45.

He added to his early heroics with another five-wicket haul (5/61) as England won by 114 runs. He was the clear Player of the Match after taking 12 wickets. Atkinson extended his successful streak with 10 more wickets in the final two Tests. He took four wickets in the first innings of the final Test in Birmingham. He scored an undefeated 21 in the second Test at Nottingham and another 21 in the final. Player of the Series Atkinson led the series with 22 wickets.

Washington Sundar (India) Washington Sundar appears to have made the Indian international cricket team after years of perseverance and injuries. Sundar was part of a young Indian team that played five T20Is in Zimbabwe. Sundar became the team’s top spin-bowling all-rounder after the Men’s T20 World Cup, displaying his quality and validating the faith invested in him.

India’s surprising loss in the first T20I was punctuated by Sundar’s 2/11 bowling stats and 27 runs to keep the visitors in the game, but they fell 13 runs short in a 115-run chase. He took six more wickets in the final four matches to help India recover from a 1-0 lead and win the series 4-1. Sundar was chosen Player of the Match in the third game for his 3/15 score and Player of the Series after taking the joint-most wickets (eight).

Sundar played one match during the Sri Lanka series with the regulars back, yet he won the Player of the Match award in a dramatic Super Over match. India all-rounder Washington Sundar deserves Player of the Series for his outstanding bowling. Sri Lanka needed 23 runs from 24 balls with eight wickets in hand when Sundar struck twice in two deliveries in his last over, igniting a remarkable reversal.

Suryakumar Yadav trusted Sundar to bowl in the Super Over, and he did so well, capturing two wickets and allowing two runs. India won the game and ended the series 3-0 over Sri Lanka. Scotland’s Charlie Cassell. In his ODI debut against Oman in Dundee, Charlie Cassell stole the spotlight after Gus Atkinson’s excellent effort. July was a month for dream debuts. Cassell’s seven-wicket haul (7/21) broke Kagiso Rabada’s nine-year-old record (6/16) for best ODI debut bowling figures.

By the 18th over, the right-arm bowler had taken five wickets and continued to shred the tail end, finishing with 7/21 and reducing Oman to 91. Cassell’s record-breaking debut was the 7th-best bowling performance in ODI history, after Andy Bichel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Rashid Khan, Glenn McGrath, Shahid Afridi, and Chaminda Vaas. “It’s a bit surreal,” Cassell said post-game. “You wake up hoping for one or two on your debut, not seven!”