Dubai: Pakistan’s Fatima Sana awarded ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2021.
She impresed with both the bat and the ball, the ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year had a great run in 2021. Here, we take a look at her journey and some memorable performances from the year.
She got 24 wickets at an average of 23.95 and 165 runs at 16.50 in 16 international matches.
A new star is born 🌟
Fatima Sana ruled the roost in 2021 💪
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— ICC (@ICC) January 23, 2022
20-year-old Pakistani pacer Fatima Sana impressed one and all with her all-round efforts in 2021. She became an integral part of Pakistan’s ODI and T20I side owing to her wicket-taking ability as a bowler, and ability to add handy runs down the order at the same time.
PCB congratulates Fatima Sana on winning ICC Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2021 pic.twitter.com/5toPsz8sp3
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) January 23, 2022
Apart from playing at home, Sana also toured Bangladesh, West Indies, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and delivered impressive all-round performances everywhere. In fact, 18 of her 24 wickets in the year came in the 11 matches she played against the West Indies. Sana showed a lot of heart against the attacking West Indies batters and succeeded in keeping them at bay.
Sana has shown good power and range as a lower-order batter too. Batting at No.8, she has registered impressive scores of 28*, 22* and 17* against strong sides like West Indies, South Africa and Zimbabwe respectively.
