Women's Player of the Month for August

ICC Women's Player of the Month nominees for August revealed

Women's Player of the Month for August

Iris Zwilling (Netherlands)

The 21-year-old Dutch all-rounder was in good form in August, making 178 runs at 29.66 at a strike-rate greater than 100 and taking three wickets in six T20Is.

Zwilling smashed half-centuries against Ireland and Jersey from the top of the order and finished either series in the top bracket of run-scorers. The Netherlands player who made her debut in T20Is in 2019, has now played 41 matches in the shortest format of the game,scoring more than 300 runs and taking 38 wickets.

Zwilling, who hadn't recorded a half-century in her T20I career until August this year, went on to make two of them in the space of seven days and followed it up with a 38 in the second T20i against Jersey.

Ainna Hamizah Hashim (Malaysia)

The 23-year-old Malaysian all-rounder had a good month with the bat, starring as the leading run-scorer in the Malaysia Women’s Quadrangular T20 series. Ainna topped the run charts in the four-team tournament where Malaysia finished third.

She scored 91 runs across four innings, remaining unbeaten in three of them. In the third-place play-off against Kuwait, Ainna won the Player of the Match award for her top score of 46*, a career best for her in T20Is.

She also started the ICC Women’s T20 WC Asia Region Qualifier in good form with the ball, taking 2/14 in the opening game against Nepal in Kuala Lumpur.

Arlene Kelly (Ireland)

Arlene Kelly played a pivotal role in Ireland's 3-0 sweep of Netherlands, taking 10 wickets in the three-match series, including a five-wicket haul. Kelly took 5/12 in the first T20I to win the Player of the Match award, helping restrict Netherlands to 92/9.

She went on take 3/11 and 2/20 in the subsequent games to top the wickets chart in the series and a record a stunning average of 4.30 in the three-match series. This is the fourth-best bowling average in a bilateral series where a bowler has taken 10 or more wickets.

It was also just the second time in women's T20Is that a bowler had taken 10 or more wickets in a bilateral series of three or fewer games. Kelly rose to 22nd in the MRF Tyres ICC Women's T20I bowling rankings with her performances.