Caribbean Times 57th Issue - Thursday 15th December 2016

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Thursday 15th December 2016
Bates named ICC ODI and T20I Player of the Year
New Zealand women captain Suzie
Bates became the first player to win both
the ICC Women’s ODI and T20I Playerof-the-Year
awards. Bates had won the
women’s ODI Player-of-the-Year award
in 2013 but has been named the T20I
Player of the Year for the first time.
The ICC took into consideration the
12 months between September 14, 2015
and September 20, 2016 which included
the Women’s World T20 in India this
year and the Women’s Championship
that concluded recently. Bates scored
472 runs in seven ODI innings at an
average of 94.40, second behind Trisha
Chetty’s tally of 506 runs from 10
innings. Bates also took eight wickets
at an economy rate of 3.75 during the
period, the second-highest for a New
Zealand player after Erin Berningham’s
14 wickets.
In T20Is, Bates topped the run-scorers’
list with 429 runs, that included four
half-centuries, at an average of 42.90.
Currently in Australia for the Women’s
Big Bash League, Bates said: “It was
a bit of a surprise to find out that I had
won both these awards. It is always nice
to be recognised for performances and
after a busy year of cricket, I am pleased
to have managed some consistency over
both formats.
“The awards are always nice but the
most important thing for me is to make
sure I am performing consistently and
helping put the team in a position to win
more games.
Suzie Bates was named the ICC T20I Player of the Year for the first time.
“For the past one-and-a-half years, Indies’ Stafanie Taylor as the captain.
our team has been performing very well The side was selected by a panel chaired
and lots of different players have stood by Clare Connor and took into account
up and performed under pressure. It is performances during the same 12-month
heartening to see that the team is doing period from September 2015 to September
2016.
very well going into the ICC Women’s
World Cup 2017 which will be held in Women’s Team of the Year (in batting
order): Suzie Bates (New Zealand),
England and Wales.”
New Zealand automatically qualified Rachel Priest (New Zealand) (wk), Smriti
Mandhana (India), Stafanie Taylor
for next year’s World Cup by finishing
third in the Women’s Championship (West Indies) (capt), Meg Lanning (Australia),
Ellyse Perry (Australia), Heather
under Bates’ captaincy. They won 13
of their 21 matches that counted towards
the championship. New Zealand Indies), Sune Luus (South Africa), Anya
Knight (England), Deandra Dottin (West
had also reached the semi-finals of the Shrubsole (England), Leigh Kasperek
World T20 earlier this year.
(New Zealand), Kim Garth (12th) (Ireland)
Bates was also named in the Women’s
Team of the Year 2016, announced
by the ICC for the first time, with West
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