Highest-scorer Babar Azam ignored for ICC Test cricketer of the year nominations
Babar was nominated for ICC ODI cricketer of 2022
Babar Azam, who is so far the highest-scorer in Test cricket this year, was ignored for ICC Test cricketer of the year nominations.
Today, International Cricket Council (ICC) announced nominations for Test cricketer of 2022. Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (England), Usman Khawaja (Australia), and Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) were nominated for the award.
Despite scoring highest 1184 runs in nine matches including four hundreds, Babar failed to get nominated for the award in elite format of the game.
Earlier, Babar was nominated for ICC ODI cricketer of 2022. Babar, who was named ODI cricketer of 2021, scored 679 runs at an average of 84.87 including eight fifties and three hundreds to get nominated for 50-overs format award.
Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan was nominated for ICC T20I cricketer of year. He also won the same award in 2021.
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