Rachin Ravindra, New Zealand’s biggest gain during the World Cup in India, on Wednesday became the youngest recipient of the Sir Richard Hadley Medal after becoming New Zealand’s male cricketer of the year. By. Among women, Melie Kerr won the major New Zealand Cricket Award. Kane Williamson was awarded the Australia New Zealand Test Player of the Year award for his outstanding performances on the Test field and won the Redpath Trophy for men’s first-class batting.
Ravindra, 24, is the youngest winner in the award’s history after a season in which he became a mainstay for New Zealand’s red- and white-ball teams.
After breaking into the team in March last year, Ravindra shone in the ODI World Cup in India, scoring 578 runs at an average of 64, including three centuries and two half-centuries, including one in Ahmedabad scored an unbeaten 123 runs in the opener against England.
With this, Ravindra was named the ICC Emerging Player of the Year 2023 and signed an Indian Premier League contract with the Chennai Super Kings worth $350,000.
The Sir Richard Hadley Medal caps off a breakthrough season for Ravindra on the international stage, where he has contributed to New Zealand in all three formats.
Ravindra continued his meteoric rise in the Test arena, recording New Zealand’s highest-ever first Test hundred with 240 in the first Test against South Africa at Bay Oval and scoring a first-ever Test series win over South Africa at BLACKCAPS played a key role.
He also shone on the T20 international stage, featuring in 14 of BLACKCAPS’ 26 T20I matches throughout the season and scoring 68 off 35 balls in the first T20I against Australia at Sky Stadium.
Cole swept the major women’s awards, winning the Debbie Hockley Medal after being named ANZ ODI and T20I Player of the Year, as well as the Dream11 Super Smash Women’s Player of the Year.
The leg-spinner all-rounder is WHITE FERNS’s leading ODI run-scorer with 541 runs at an average of 67, notching her third and fourth ODI centuries along the way.
She is also the team’s joint-leading T20 wicket-taker and second-highest T20I run-scorer with 252 runs at an average of 42 and a strike rate of 118.
Cole’s performance at the international level was recognized and she was named in the 2023 Women’s ODI and T20I ICC Team of the Year.
Cole also led the way in the domestic arena, leading Wellington Flames to their fourth Dream11 Super Smash title in six years, topping the run-scoring charts with 437 runs and an average of 72, while taking 20 wickets Tops the scoreboard. 8, economy is 4.47.
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