ICC announces winner of Player of the Month award for February

Yashasvi Jaiswal has trumped New Zealand's Kane Williamson and Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka to win the ICC Player of the Month award for February.

Jaiswal made the month of February his own by scoring two double centuries in Test cricket in consecutive games against England. The southpaw is also the leading run-accumulator in the ongoing cycle (2023-25) of the World Test Championship (WTC) with 1028 runs and doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

Jaiswal was one of the key contributors to India's 4-1 win over England in the recently concluded five-match Test series at home. The 22-year-old racked up 712 runs for Team India and finished as the leading run-scorer of the series. His magnificent performance also helped him win the



Player of the Series honour.

"I'm really happy to achieve ICC award and I hope I will be getting more in future," Jaiswal told ICC after receiving the honour. "It's one of the best and this is my first five-match series series.

"I really enjoyed it, the way I have played and the way it's been and we won the series by 4-1. It's been an incredible experience with all my mates And I really enjoyed it."

Jaiswal gave special mention to his unbeaten 214-run-knock which came in Rajkot and described the feeling as something he "really enjoyed".

"I think when I celebrated my double century in Rajkot, I think that was something which I really enjoyed and felt it. And I was, I was living," he added.