2024-03-15 05:16:26
Since last year’s ODI World Cup held in India, Rachin Ravindra’s bat seems to speak as he wishes. The left-hander is performing well match after match. Now he got a great news. Rachin won the ‘Richard Headley Medal’ for New Zealand Cricketer of the Year.
However, the 24-year-old all-rounder set a record on his way to winning New Zealand cricket’s highest honor of the year. Racine is the youngest cricketer in New Zealand’s history.
Rachin and others were presented with the award at the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) awards ceremony in Christchurch today. Apart from Racine, Kane Williamson in Tests, Daryl Mitchell in ODIs and Mitchell Santner in T20s won the Player of the Year award.
Amelia Carr has won the Women’s Cricket Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. The 23-year-old all-rounder won the ‘Debbie Hockley Medal’ as well as the ODI, T20 and Super Smash Women’s Cricketer of the Year awards.
Rachin has been in the limelight since his debut in New Zealand’s Jersey in November 2021. Racine stole all the limelight in the ODI World Cup. He scored 578 runs with three centuries and two fifties in the 2023 World Cup. Won the ICC Emerging Player of the Year in January.
Among others Gardner Holmes Umpire of the Year was Brown, who became the first New Zealand umpire to reach the milestone of umpiring 50 T20 matches. In addition, Trudy Anderson was recognized for her outstanding contribution as an administrator.