Wisden Cricketer of the year: Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah have been named among the five players selected by Wisden for 2022 ‘Cricketer of the Year’. Apart from this, the names of New Zealand’s Devon Conway, England’s fast bowler Ollie Robinson and South African women’s cricketer Dane Van Niekerk are also included in this list.
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Joe Root was selected as the best leading cricketer :-
England’s Joe Root named the Leading Cricketer of the Year; while South African women’s team batsman Lizelle Lee has been chosen as the Leading Women’s Cricketer. Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan named T20 Cricketer of the Year. All these titles given to the cricketer who has performed amazingly in the year.
Full performance of Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma :-
Bumrah had a great performance on the tour of England last season. He gave the team a 2-1 lead with a brilliant spell at the Oval. At the same time, Rohit scored 368 runs in four Tests at an average of 52.57. He played an innings of 127 runs at the Oval.
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Root scored 1708 runs in the previous calendar year, the third-highest Test run record in a year in the history of cricket. Lee scored above 90 runs in ODIs in 2021 in four innings in the series against India. 288 runs included. Rizwan scored 1329 runs in 27 T20Is in 2021 which includes one century and 11 half-centuries.