{"id":6206,"date":"2025-05-05T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:30:42","slug":"shortlists-revealed-for-icc-april-players-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/05\/05\/shortlists-revealed-for-icc-april-players-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlists revealed for ICC April Players of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the shortlist of contenders in line to win the ICC Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Player of the Month awards for April.<br \/><br \/>The ICC Women\u2019s Player of the Month nominees comprise three leading all-rounders who played starring roles in last month\u2019s hotly contested ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025 Qualifier in Pakistan.<br \/><br \/>Fatima Sana was in inspired form during April, leading Pakistan to claim a World Cup spot with a string of memorable performances during an unbeaten week on home soil. Kathryn Bryce also enjoyed a stellar month leading Scotland, and ended as the competition\u2019s leading run-scorer. Hayley Matthews of the West Indies completes the shortlist, and will be aiming to win her fourth Player of the Month accolade with runs and wickets flowing during the month.<br \/><br \/>The ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month shortlist features standout performers in the Bangladesh-Zimbabwe Test series and an emerging New Zealand pacer.<br \/><br \/>Bangladesh all-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz made telling contributions at both ends of the crease in Bangladesh\u2019s tied Test series against Zimbabwe, earning his first nomination for ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month. Likewise on the opposing side, Zimbabwe\u2019s Blessing Muzarabani enjoyed significant success with the ball in hand to earn his side a share of the spoils. New Zealand\u2019s Ben Sears becomes the third and final name on the shortlist after blistering spells in his side\u2019s 3-0 ODI sweep over Pakistan.<br \/><br \/>An independent ICC Voting Academy* and fans around the world will now be invited to cast their votes to decide the winners, which will be announced next week.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the shortlist of contenders in line to win the ICC Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Player of the Month awards for April. The ICC Women\u2019s Player of the Month nominees comprise three leading all-rounders who played starring roles in last month\u2019s hotly contested ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025 Qualifier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-international","9":"category-national","10":"category-example-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}