Team India's top scorer in the Champions Trophy, Shreyas Iyer wins the ICC Player of the Month award for March
The Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer, who is captaining Punjab Kings in IPL 2025, has won the Player of the Month award for March on the basis of his excellent performance in the Champions Trophy. Iyer has won this award by defeating New Zealand's Jacob Duffy and Rachin Ravindra.
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Shreyas Iyer was the highest run scorer in the Champions Trophy by scoring 243 runs and played a key role in India's victory. Iyer winning this award means that India has won this award twice in a row. Highly-rated youngster Shubman Gill had previously won this award for the month of February. This is only the second time in history that two Indian male players have won this award consecutively.
Iyer scored 172 runs in 3 matches in March at an average of 57.33. He scored 79 runs off 98 balls against the Mitchell Satner-led New Zealand in the Champions Trophy group A match, which included 4 fours and 2 sixes. He contributed significantly to India's victory over Australia in the semi-finals as well. He scored 45 runs off 62 deliveries and 48 runs off 62 deliveries against the Blackcaps in the final.
This happened for the second time in history
For the first time in 2021, the Player of the Month award was won by 3 Indian male players consecutively. Rishabh Pant got this award for January, Ravichandran Ashwin for February and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for March. Since then, it has never happened that this award was given to Indian players twice in a row by the ICC. Now this has happened for the second time in history.
Shreyas Iyer Player of the Month Award wins
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Georgia Voll becomes ICC Women's Player of the Month for March
Georgia Voll, who made her international cricket debut in December last year, has won this award (Player of the Month) in the women's category. Voll won this award by defeating compatriot Annabel Sutherland and USA's Chetna Prasad. In March, Australia defeated New Zealand 3-0, in which 21-year-old Voll played an important role.
Voll scored 50 runs in 31 balls in the first match, 36 runs in 20 balls in the second T20 match and 75 runs in 57 balls in the final match. The Australian player has won this award four times in a row in the women's category.
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