Ashwin named ICC Player of the Month for February

TIL Desk Sports/ Ravichandran Ashwin won the ICC men’s Player of the Month for February 2021, following his impressive performances in India’s Test series victory against England. “In the three Tests he played, he scored a century (106) in the second innings of India’s second Test victory over England at Chennai and took his 400th Test wicket in the third Test victory at Ahmedabad.

Scoring a total of 176 runs across these games and taking 24 wickets, Ashwin was the unanimous choice to win in the men’s category for February and garnered the most votes in the fan vote,” the International Cricket Council said in a media release on Tuesday.

England’s Tammy Beaumont was named the ICC women’s Player of the Month. She played 3 ODIs in February against New Zealand where she passed fifty in each of these, totalling 231 runs. The ICC Player of the Month awards recognise and celebrate the best performances from both male and female cricketers across all forms of international cricket each month.