Noman Ali ICC Player of the Month: Pakistan’s off-spin bowler Nauman Ali has been declared ‘Player of the Month’ by ICC for the month of October. He played an important role in helping Pakistan win 2-1 by taking 20 wickets in the Test series against England. Nauman is the first Pakistani cricketer to receive this honor since August last year. Babar Azam became Player of the Month in August last year.
Nauman Ali has received this honor by defeating Kagiso Rabada of South Africa and Mitchell Santner of New Zealand. Rabada took 14 wickets in two test matches against Bangladesh in the month of October. On the other hand, Mitchell Santner played a test against India, in which apart from taking 13 wickets, he also scored 37 runs in two innings.
20 wickets in two matches
Nauman Ali played in the last 2 test matches against England, where the spin bowlers got a lot of help. He took a total of 11 wickets in the second test match of the series played in Multan. He sent three batsmen to the pavilion in the first innings and 8 batsmen of the English team in the second innings. Due to his strong performance, the Pakistan team was tied at one point in the series. The third match of the series was played in Rawalpindi and here too Nauman Ali wreaked havoc. This time too, he took three wickets in the first innings, while in the second innings he took 6 wickets with his claws applied.
Strong performance with the bat
In the first innings of the third test match of the series, Pakistan lost 7 wickets at the score of 177. Nauman Ali came to bat at ninth position and played an important inning of 45 runs and made a partnership of 88 runs with Saud Shakeel. Shakeel had scored 134 runs in that innings. Thanks to their partnership, Pakistan was successful in getting a lead of 77 runs in the first innings and the Pakistani team went on to win the match by 9 wickets. Apart from this, Nauman had scored 32 runs in the first innings of the second test of the series. Apart from scoring 78 runs, he took 20 wickets in three innings of the series against England.
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