West Indies skipper Hayley Matthews on Wednesday was named the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year and have become simply the second girls’s cricketer from the Caribbean to get the honour. Before Matthews, former skipper Stafanie Taylor was topped with the coveted accolade in 2015. Matthews was sensational along with her expertise from the bat and the ball. She defeated competitors from Australia’s Ellyse Perry, England’s Sophie Ecclestone, and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu. “I have been really blessed to have a pretty good year with West Indies wearing those colours, performing really well and helping the team,” Matthews stated, based on ICC.

“Growing up I saw many of my idols getting these type of awards a lot, so to be able to come out as a player with this award is special for me,” she added.

The No.1 ranked ICC Women’s T20I all-rounder launched into a journey that noticed her produce a outstanding efficiency for the ages in opposition to Australia in a bilateral T20I collection.

During the collection, she scored 99*, 132 and 79 because the West Indies skipper proved to be a significant hurdle to the Australian aspect. The 25-year-old’s 99* within the first recreation of the collection went quickly below the radar along with her breathtaking 132 in a run-chase of 213 in Sydney.

The world-record run-chase in girls’s T20Is noticed Matthews tumble a number of information which included the very best particular person rating in a girls’s T20I run-chase. Her total rating of 310 runs within the collection set the milestone of most by any participant in a girls’s T20I bilateral collection.

Matthews additionally had a very good outing within the T20 World Cup. She amassed 130 runs and picked up 4 wickets.

Overall, she added 700 runs to her title in 2023, probably the most by any participant in a 12 months in Women’s T20Is. She additionally claimed 19 wickets at a mean of 16.21 within the 12 months.

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