Nat Sciver-Brunt has won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year award for the second consecutive year. The athlete was at the top of her game all year, and some of her most impressive hits came during the 2023 Women’s Ashes series against Australia.
Sciver-Brunt defeated Australia’s Ash Gardner and Beth Mooney as well as Chamari Athapaththu of Sri Lanka.
2023 record: nine wickets and 894 runs in eighteen games
Nat Sciver-Brunt was playing ODI cricket at her very best, just like she was the previous year.
She scored 393 runs with an average of 131 from just six games, including three tons. With eight ODI tons overall, she is now only one behind Tammy Beaumont and Charlotte Edwards’ joint national record for England (nine apiece).
In her two Test matches this year, she also faced tough opposition, hitting two fifties against Australia and India, respectively.
Nat Sciver-Brunt scored 216 runs at a strike rate of 141.17 to rank as England’s top run scorer at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. She kept up her performance throughout the year, setting a fierce English victory at Wankhede in December with a stunning 77 against India. With the ball, she claimed nine wickets as well.
Nat Sciver-Brunt was named Player of the Series in the Ashes series versus Australia, but he was especially impressive in the ODI leg.
Nat Sciver-Brunt gave one of her better performances in the second ODI after making useful scores of 31 and 2/38 to help England win the first one.
In order to even the score with Australia and go into the last ODI with a chance to win the Ashes, England needed to win. Sciver-Brunt used her allotted overs wisely in the first innings, giving up just 44 runs. Nonetheless, Australia accomplished a formidable goal of 283. The ask has always been high, and the needed rate increased as England lost significant middle-overs wickets.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, though, managed to stay competitive and score points quickly. With Beaumont, Amy Jones, and Sarah Glenn, the all-rounder formed crucial stands that carried the game to the final ball. To maintain the Ashes, England needed to win five out of seven, but Sciver-Brunt could only muster one. After England had been 144/5 and 213/7 at one point in the match, it was her fighting century (111*) that kept them in the contest.
In the third game, she got a century again, and this time England won handily.
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