Former England captain Joe Root and batter Harry Brook have been shortlisted for the ICC males’s cricketer of the 12 months award.
Australia batter Travis Head and India tempo bowler Jasprit Bumrah are the opposite male nominations.
Root, 34, is the quantity one-ranked Take a look at batter within the males’s recreation because of making 1,556 runs from 17 Checks at a median of 55.57 in 2024.
He was briefly displaced on the prime of the rankings earlier this 12 months by team-mate Brook, however a disappointing third Take a look at in New Zealand for the 25-year noticed Root regain his spot.
Brook has in any other case loved a stellar 12 months, which peaked with a maiden triple hundred in Pakistan in October.
The Yorkshire batter hit 317 off 322 balls in Multan to assist England to their third-highest total in Take a look at historical past.
Bumrah is the main wicket-taker in Checks in 2024 – with 71 at a median of 14.92 – whereas Head has scored three pivotal centuries and averages 40.53.
Australia’s Annabel Sutherland, New Zealand’s Melie Kerr, South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu have been nominated for the ladies’s award.
Kerr led New Zealand to the T20 World Cup title earlier this 12 months, beating Wolvaardt’s South Africa within the remaining.
The 24-year-old took a report 15 wickets throughout the event whereas Wolvaardt hit extra runs (223) than some other batter within the event within the United Arab Emirates.
Athapaththu led Sri Lanka to success within the Asia Cup whereas Sutherland grew to become simply the ninth lady to make a Take a look at double century in February.
