ICC has declared Abhishek Sharma as the Men’s Player of the Month for September. Abhishek had performed well in Asia Cup 2025. On the other hand, Smriti Mandhana has been chosen Player of the Month among women. Abhishek was the highest run-scorer in the Asia Cup tournament, scoring 314 runs in 7 matches while batting stormily.
At the same time, in the Asia Cup tournament, Abhishek also batted with a tremendous strike rate of 200. He was also the batsman who scored the most half-centuries in the entire tournament. There were 3 fifties from his bat. Whereas the record of hitting most fours (32) and most sixes (19) in the tournament was also in his name. For this excellent performance he was also chosen Player of the Tournament.
Smriti Mandhana became Player of the Month
On the other hand, Indian female star batsman Smriti Mandhana has had a great performance with the bat in the ODI format so far in the year 2025. If we talk about Mandhana’s performance with the bat in the month of September, she played a total of 4 matches in which she managed to score 308 runs with an excellent average of 77. Along with this, Mandhana also played two centuries and one half-century. Mandhana’s strike rate during this period was 135.68.
Mandhana was given this award by ICC for her excellent performance. Mandhana has won this award for the second time in her career, in which earlier in the year 2024, in the month of June, Smriti Mandhana had won the ICC Player of the Month award.