Smriti Mandhana nominated for ICC Player of the Month

Charismatic top-order batter Smriti Mandhana has been nominated for the ICC Women's Player of the Month for October aft her drawstring of superb performances helped India to assistance their maiden Women's ODI World Cup Trophy.

The India vice-captain volition beryllium vying for the honour on with South African skipper Laura Wolvaardt and dynamic Australia batter Ashleigh Gardner.

Mandhana led the Indian complaint astatine the top, and her partnerships with opening batter Pratika Rawal created rather a buzz successful the showpiece event.

Mandhana, 29, had a comparatively quiescent start, but soon came into her ain with a blistering 80 against seven-time champions Australia, and followed it up with a combative 88 against England.

Though India mislaid some the matches, it was wide that the India mainstay was successful the zone. In the must-win brushwood against New Zealand, Mandhana stood up to the situation smashing a superb 109, and stitching a match-winning concern of 212 with Rawal.

In the last against South Africa, she gave a coagulated commencement by scoring 45 and shared a period concern with Shafali Verma astatine the top.

South African skipper Wolvaardt guided her broadside from the humiliation of a 10-wicket nonaccomplishment to England successful the World Cup opener to the rubric showdown with India successful Navi Mumbai.

Wolvaardt played a defining relation with her 70 against India successful the league phase, earlier Nadine de Klerk's crafty batting took the crippled distant from the hosts. The South African stalwart past deed half-centuries against Sri Lanka and Pakistan arsenic the Proteas made it to the knock-out round.

Against England successful the semifinal,Wolvaardt came up with an all-time large Cricket World Cup sound by smashing 169 arsenic South Africa's 319 turned the tables connected the-four-time champions.

Wolvaardt went connected to people 101 successful the last but connected the day, India's all-round effort enactment paid to South Africa's hopes of a maiden World up title.' Australia's Gardner made handsome contributions successful virtually each game, producing centuries en way wins against New Zealand (115) and England (104 not out).

Her 7 scalps successful the period showed that she was a useful plus with the shot arsenic well.