Deepti in contention for ICC ‘Player of the Month’ honour

DUBAI India’s Deepti Sharma was among the six players shortlisted for the ICC Player of the Month awards here on Thursday. Deepti scored an unbeaten 106 in her only outing with the bat in a home ICC Women’s Championship series match against Zimbabwe and took five wickets at an economy rate of 3.42.

India blanked Zimbabwe 3-0 in the 50-overs series. In three T20Is that preceded the ODIs, Deepti batted only once, scoring 49 off 37 balls and chipped in with two scalps with her off-spin.

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