Shaheen Afridi named the best cricketer of 2021

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 Shaheen Afridi named the best cricketer of 2021 and Babar Azam the best ODI cricketer

Shaheen Shah Afridi, BabarAzam best cricketer of 2021

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has named Shaheen Shah Afridi, a young member of the Pakistani cricket team and fast bowler, as the best cricketer of the year.

Earlier on Monday, Pakistan captain Babar Azam was selected as the best ODI cricketer of the year.

This is the first time since the launch of the ICC Awards in 2004 that a Pakistani cricketer has been named the best cricketer or the best ODI cricketer overall.

For the Gary Sobers Trophy for Best Player, Shaheen Afridi competed against Test cricketer of the year English captain Joe Root, Pakistan's T20 Player of the Year Mohammad Rizwan and New Zealand captain Ken Williamson.

Shaheen Afridi was earlier included in the ICC's Best Test and T20 teams of 2021.

Announcing the name of Shaheen Afridi by the ICC, it was said that with stormy bowling, the best example of speed and swing and some magical moments, there was no one to stop Shaheen Afridi in 2021.

After being declared the best cricketer of the year, Shaheen Afridi said, "I tried to give a good performance for Pakistan. In 2021, our team presented the best game. We won very good matches. I always try to give good performances for Pakistan and I will continue to do so.

He said, ''The players in our team have a good relationship with each other and we are happy when our teammates play well''. My performance has been quite good, like the spell of five wickets in Tests.

Shaheen Afridi said that victory against India in T20 World Cup will be the most memorable for him. ''It was a historic match and the match against India has a lot of spectators.'' For me, the performance against India was the highlight of 2021. This year has been very good for me and I hope you will see good performances in 2022 too.

After the selection of Shaheen Afridi, the number of Pakistani players who have won ICC awards in 2021 has increased to four.

Before Shaheen Afridi and Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan was named the best player of the year for the T20 format while Pakistan women's cricket team fast bowler Fatima Sana was named the best emerging player of the year.

Babar Azam was earlier included in the ICC's 2021 Best T20 and ODI team and was also given the captaincy of both the teams.

Babar Azam competed for the ODI Cricketer of the Year award against South Africa's Janiman Malan, Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan and Ireland's Paul Sterling.

Although Babar Azam played only six ODIs in 2021, his performance in those matches was impressive and he scored 405 runs at an average of 67.50 including two centuries.

In a video message after his selection, Babar Azam said that he would first like to thank his fans for their support and liking and also for the ICC, PCB and especially the Pakistan team. Are grateful

He said, ''The way they supported me and backed me up, it couldn't have happened without them.'' I am very proud to have such a team.''I also want to thank my parents who have prayed a lot for me.''

Regarding the best innings of the year, Babar Azam said, "If you ask me about the best innings, she was from England. I think it was the best innings of my career because I had some problems there and I needed a good innings that I got and that gave me a lot of confidence.

In this ODI series against England, although Pakistan had suffered a 3-0 defeat, but in this series, Babar Azam had scored 158 runs while playing the best individual innings of his career.

Babar Azam was instrumental in Pakistan's two-one win in the ODI series against South Africa last year and was the man of the match in both the matches won.

He sad, ''I try to score runs against every team in every country and that is the goal and the series against South Africa was very helpful and then we got momentum.'' We got a lot of confidence as a team and I got a lot of confidence as a player and captain.

King of kings Babar the Great

Babar Azam was trending on social media as soon as the ICC named the captain of Pakistan cricket team Babar Azam as the best ODI player of 2021.

Apart from the Pakistan Cricket Board and former cricketers, ordinary Pakistanis congratulated him on the award and at the same time termed it a great moment for Pakistan and said that Babar is a hero.

Social media user Arsalan commented with a childhood photo of Babar Azam who knew that this little boy would one day win the ICC ODI Player of the Year award and make Pakistan famous. Babar Azam is a diamond.

"We are living in the age of cricket," said journalist Maria Memon.

Social media user Kashf wrote that this is the era of Babar Azam while a Twitter user named Mudassar Bhatti ended his speech in just three words: "King of kings".

"This is the era of Babar Azam and Rizwan and Pakistan," said Mahesh Bhatti on Twitter. We did what we could never have imagined. "

He said that the Pakistani cricket team was ridiculed, it was attached to the wall, it was insulted but all of them were trying to cope with the situation and their (Pakistani cricket team's) focus was on their goal.

England's Joe Root named Test Cricketer of the Year

''England's Test captain Joe Root was selected for the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award on Monday.''

England's Joe Root, Indian off-spinner Ravi Chander Eshwan, New Zealand's tallest fast bowler Kyle Jamieson and Sri Lanka's opener Dimuth Karuna Ratna were nominated for the award.

England's Joe Root scored 1708 runs in 15 Tests last year, including six centuries and four half-centuries. With just 81 runs short, he failed to break Muhammad Yusuf's world record of 1788 runs in a single calendar year.

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