The Sri Lankan cricket team was not able to do anything special for a long time, but after some major changes, there has been an impact on the team’s performance. The Sri Lankan team has now made a good comeback and is winning the match. Meanwhile, ICC has given a special award to a Sri Lankan player. This player is none other than Kamindu Mendis. Kamindu Mendis has been chosen as the Player of the Month by ICC for the month of September. By winning this award, Kamindu Mendis has equaled Team India’s young star Shubhman Gill.
Kamindu reached equal to Shubman
Kamindu Mendis has won the Player of the Month title twice this year. Earlier, he had won this title in the month of March this year. Before this, Shubhman Gill was the only player who had won the ICC Player of the Month title twice in a year. Shubhman Gill won this title in the months of January and September in the year 2023. Now Kamindu’s name has also been added to this special list. Kamindu has also made many other records during this period. ICC has given him this award because of Kamindu’s excellent batting.
beat these two players
Kamindu Mendis defeated two star players to win this title. In fact, apart from him, ICC had also nominated Prabhat Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka and Travis Head of Australia for this award. Prabhat Jayasuriya and Travis Head also had good performances this month, but Kamindu defeated both these players. Kamindu had performed quite amazingly in the month of September. He played four Test matches, where he scored 451 runs at an average of 90.20. Due to his strong performance his team won the last test match against England. And New Zealand was given a clean sweep in the test series.
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