Mohammad
Rizwan has been fittingly rewarded for having an excellent season with the
Pakistan cricket team in 2021. Rizwan scored 1326 runs in 29 T20Is in the
2021 season and the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday named him the
men’s T20 Payer of the Year.

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England’s Tammy Beaumont, meanwhile, has been named the ICC women’s T20 Player of the Year,
for having a stellar cricket season.

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Rizwan
ruled the roost in 2021 when it came to the shortest format in the men’s game,
while Beaumont finished the year as the third-highest run-getter in women’s
T20Is. Rizwan scored 1326 runs at an average of 73.66 and a strike rate of
134.89.

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Apart
from his exploits with the bat, he was as solid as ever behind the stumps,
playing a key role in Pakistan’s run to the semifinals during the T20 World Cup
in the UAE, where he ended up as the third-highest run-scorer.

He
also scored his maiden T20I century against South Africa in Lahore early in the
year and continued his form with a brilliant knock of 87 against the West
Indies in Karachi.

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With
another T20 World Cup coming up next year, Pakistan will hope that Rizwan
continues in the same vein.

Rizwan
had also smashed an unbeaten 79 off 55 deliveries in the World Cup opener
against India, helping Pakistan record their maiden win over the arch-rivals in
the global event.

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Meanwhile,
Beaumont was her side’s highest run-getter in the year in T20Is.

In
a low-scoring rubber against New Zealand away from home, Beaumont was the top
scorer and was awarded the Player of the Series for scoring 102 runs in three
matches.  She scored a brilliant fifty in
a match against India, though it went in vain after a lower-order
collapse.  Beaumont continued to make
merry against New Zealand, this time when they visited England for a
limited-overs tour. She once again finished as the highest run-getter in the
series with 113 runs.

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Her
97 in the series opener against New Zealand at home propelled England to their
highest T20I total in 2021.