Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Sean Williams nominated for ICC Men's Player of the Month

India’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Zimbabwe’s Test captain Sean Williams and Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan have been nominated for the ICC Player of the Month Award for the month of March.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been nominated after his excellent performances with the ball in the white-ball leg of the home series against England. He swung the new ball brilliantly against England openers while used his variations to come at the top of other batsmen.

He picked up six wickets in the three-match long ODI series at 22.5 apiece while the five-match T20I series yielded four wickets at an average of only 28.7 runs per wicket.

Sean Williams, on the other hand, was prolific with the bat in the two-match Test series against Afghanistan in the UAE. He piled on two centuries and amassed 264 Test runs at an astounding average of 132 runs per innings.

He was the main man for Zimbabwe in the second Test but could not lead his side to an unlikely win over a bowling line up led by Rashid Khan who bowled a marathon spell of almost 100 overs in the Test match. He missed the first Test due to injury and Zimbabwe trounced Afghanistan to take an unassailable lead of 1-0 in the series.

Rashid came back with a bang and won Afghanistan the game almost single-handedly from the jaws of defeat against Sean Williams-led Zimbabwean batting side. He picked 11 wickets in the only Test he featured.

Following the Test series, Rashid scalped 6 wickets in a three-match long T20I series at a surreal average of 12.6 runs per wicket.

Notably, the ICC has started the Player of the Month on monthly basis from the start of this year.