ICC Player of the Month: Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma has received a big reward from the International Cricket Council (ICC). ICC gave the 'Player of the Month' award to Deepti Sharma for October 2026. This is the second time that Deepti Sharma has been chosen Player of the Month. Earlier, Deepti Sharma had received this award in December 2023. Recently, in the white ball series played against Zimbabwe, Deepti Sharma performed all-round with ball and bat. On the basis of her brilliant performance, she won this award leaving behind Sobhana Mostari of Bangladesh and Annabel Sutherland of Australia.
Great performance against Zimbabwe
29 year old Deepti Sharma had performed brilliantly in the ODI series against Zimbabwe. Batting in one innings, he scored unbeaten 106 runs. Apart from this, he also took five wickets with the ball at an excellent economy rate of just 3.42. The Indian women's team made a clean sweep of Zimbabwe 3-0 in this series. Apart from ODI, Deepti Sharma also performed brilliantly in the T20 International series. He scored 49 runs in 37 balls in his only innings, while also taking 2 wickets with off-spin bowling.
Marco Yanson won the men's award
Apart from Deepti Sharma, Marco Jansen also got the reward for his excellent performance. ICC awarded Marco Jansen the Men's Player of the Month award for October 2026. He performed brilliantly for South Africa in the Test series against Australia. On the basis of this, South Africa won the test series 2-1. 26 year old Marco Jansen scored 198 runs in the month of October and also took 13 wickets in bowling. On the basis of his brilliant performance, Marco Jansen won the ICC Men's Player of the Month award for the first time. He won this award by defeating Pakistan's emerging all-rounder Arafat Minhas and West Indies white-ball captain Shai Hope.
Marco Jansen's all-round performance
South Africa lost to Australia in the first test. After this, Marco Jansen led South Africa to victory with his all-round performance in the second test. In the second Test, he scored 85 runs with the bat in the first innings, while taking a total of 6 wickets in both the innings. On this basis South Africa registered victory. Then in the third test also, Yanson scored a half-century and also took 3 wickets. On the basis of this, South Africa won the test series 2-1.