
Dubai: Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh, who starred in India’s T20 World Cup triumph last year, was on Saturday named ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024, cementing his reputation as one of the leading short format bowlers in the game.
The left-arm medium-fast bowler took 36 wickets in 18 matches in 2024.
He was also named in the ICC T20I Team of the Year 2024 earlier in the day, along side Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya.
Last year, he broke into the top 10 of the ICC men’s T20I rankings following his three-wicket haul in the opening match against Bangladesh.
Arshdeep rose eight places to equal eighth on the updated list for T20I bowlers, reaching a new career-high rating, with experienced England spinner Adil Rashid still holding on to the No.1 ranking after the completion of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in June and England’s series with Australia at home in September last year.
He moved seven places to 60th overall on the latest T20I rankings for batters led by Australian Travis Head.
(With PTI inputs)