India’s Suryakumar Yadav has been named the T20I Cricketer of the Year. In this list, he has left behind Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, England’s Sam Curran, and Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan.

Suryakumar has had a great year with the bat. As expected, he also made it to the ICC T20I XI of the Year. This time the Indian batsman is also the cricketer of the year in the short version of cricket.

The ICC said this in a statement on Wednesday (January 25) afternoon.

Suryakumar has played a total of 31 T20 matches in 2022. He scored 1,164 runs at a strike rate of 187.43.

Meanwhile, Suryakumar has hit 68 sixes in the whole year, which is a world record. The Indian middle-order batsman has also scored two centuries and nine half-centuries throughout the year. In such a performance, he also came to the top of the T20 rankings. Where his points were 890.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza, who has been nominated for the T20 Cricketer of the Year, has played 24 matches throughout the year. In addition to 735 runs, he also took 25 wickets. Raja’s strike rate in batting was above 150, while the economy rate in bowling was 6.13.

England all-rounder Sam Curran also played 19 matches for 2022 runs. In addition to 67 runs with the bat in the lower order, Curran took 25 wickets with the ball. Curran took 13 wickets in England’s mission to win the T20 World Cup. He was the man of the match in the final of the T20 World Cup.

Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan was in the race for the best player of the year. The Pakistani opener scored 996 runs in 25 matches this year. He also took nine catches and three stumpings from behind the wicket.