• Mohammad Rizwan is the No. 1 T20I batsman in ICC Men’s Player Rankings.
• He defeated competition from Cameron Green and Axar Patel.
• He maintained his dominance in the game’s shortest format.

Mohammad Rizwan, the Pakistani wicket-keeper batter, was chosen as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Player of the Month for September 2022 as a result of his recent outstanding achievements.

According to an ICC news release, Rizwan, the top T20I batter in the world, defeated competition from young Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and legendary Indian spinner Axar Patel, who both had months to remember.

“Rizwan was in outstanding shape in September, turning in some scorching T20I performances. As the No. 1 T20I batsman in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s Player Rankings, he maintained his dominance in the game’s shortest format and earned a spot on the shortlist for Player of the Month for September, it said.

“I would want to thank Almighty Allah and express my deep happiness to everybody that enabled me to accomplish this prize,” a delighted Rizwan remarked after receiving the honor.

“I want to express my sincere gratitude to all of my teammates for making things simple for me. Your confidence is boosted by these successes. I am pleased with my performance, and I want to carry it over to Australia.

The people in Pakistan who are impacted by floods and climate change, he continued, are the ones to whom he would like to devote this honor.

Hopefully, this would make them happy, he said, according to ICC.

In the ten games Rizwan played last month, the ICC reported that he scored seven fifty-pluses.

He started the month off with two 70+ scores in the Asia Cup matches against India and Hong Kong. He concluded the competition with yet another fifty and was the player who scored the most runs, but Pakistan failed to cross the finish line.

Rizwan amassed four scores of 60+ in the first five T20Is of the seven-match series against England, assisting his team in taking a 3-2 lead. He nevertheless finished the series with the most runs, 316, at an average of 63.20 while going at 138.60, despite playing one fewer game.

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