Australia Test skipper Pat Cummins, Pakistan captain Babar Azam and West Indies skipper Kraigg Brathwaite on Wednesday were announced as the nominees for the ICC Men's Player-of-the-Month award for March 2022, said the International Cricket Council (ICC).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Cummins gets his name in the nominations after leading his team from the front in the 1-0 Test series win against Pakistan and was instrumental in their victory, taking a total of 12 wickets to be the leading wicket-taker in the Benaud-Qadir Trophy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He was also named Player of the Match for his bowling figures of 5\/56 and 3\/23 in the final Test, helping Australia win the third Test in Lahore, as well as the three-match series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Azam finds his name in the nominations on the back of being the third-highest run-scorer in the Benaud-Qadir Trophy. In his five outings in the Test series, he scored 390 runs at an average of 78, including two half-centuries and a century, which was the match-saving 196 in the second innings of the second Test at Karachi.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He continued his outstanding form in the ODI series at Lahore, playing vital knocks in the first two matches. In the first ODI, he notched up a score of 57 though Pakistan lost by 88 runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But Azam turned the tables by scoring a brilliant 118 to lead Pakistan to a thrilling six-wicket win in the second contest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Far away from Pakistan, in the Caribbean, Brathwaite played a crucial hand in West Indies' recent Test series victory against England at home 1-0.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
With 341 runs in six innings at an average of 85.25, Brathwaite was the leading run-scorer in the Richards-Botham Trophy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n