Mehedi bags ESPNcricinfo debutant of the year award, Fizz T20I bowling award
Last year ESPNcricinfo named Bangladeshi bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman the debutant of the year — a category voted on by ESPNcricinfo’s users, in addition to the jury.
This year the award went to another young Bangladesh bowler — Mehedi Hasan Miraz, who took a record 19 wickets in his debut Test series, against England.
Besides, the men’s T20I bowling award went to Mustafizur Rahman, who took five New Zealand wickets for 22 runs with his cutters in a World T20 game in Kolkata.
Carlos Brathwaite and Hayley Matthews’ career-defining innings in the men’s and women’s World T20 finals were voted the best T20 batting performances of 2016 at the ESPNcricinfo Awards, announced on Friday. Ben Stokes won the Test batting award for his 198-ball 258 in Cape Town, the second-fastest Test double-century, while his team-mate Stuart Broad won the Test bowling award for a second year running, reports ESPNcricinfo.
Quinton de Kock’s 178 — an innings that kick-started South Africa’s 5-0 whitewash against Australia at home — was named the ODI batting performance of the year.
South Africa were the opposition that Sunil Narine destroyed on his comeback, with 6 for 27 in Guyana, which was voted the ODI bowling performance of the year.