Matthews nominated for ICC Women’s Player of the Month for April

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC):

WEST INDIES Women’s captain Hayley Matthews is among three female players who have been nominated for the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for April.

Matthews was nominated after an outstanding performance in last month’s Women’s World Cup Qualifiers in Pakistan, where she starred with both bat and ball.

Despite not securing one of the two qualifying spots on offer after finishing behind the hosts and Bangladesh Women, Matthews finished the tournament with 240 runs at a strike rate of 116.50, averaging 60.

She was also influential with her spin-bowling, ending with the most wickets – 13 at an average of 15.84.

The other two nominees are Scotland Women’s skipper Kathryn Bryce and Pakistan captain Fatima Sana.

Bryce finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer — 293 runs from her five outings, averaging an astonishing 73.25 that included a ton and two half-centuries.

Meanwhile, Sana led the charge for the hosts in an invincible Qualifier campaign that saw them win all five of their games to punch their ticket to the marquee tournament in India.

Sana finished as the leading wicket-taker for Pakistan — picking up 12 dismissals at a miserly economy rate of 3.97.