ICC Player of the Month: Jonny Bairstow wins award for June after breath-taking Test performances vs NZ

England center order batter Jonny Bairstow has been awarded the lads’s participant of the month award in June after he smashed New Zealand out of their first sequence of the 2022 summer time.

Jonny Bairstow hits a shot towards India. (Courtesy: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSJonny Bairstow introduced a T20 avatar within the Test formatBairstow has been given a transparent position below the tutelage of Brendon McCullumBairstow pressed on along with his type and scored twin centuries towards India in July

Bazballing Jonny Bairstow has been awarded the ICC participant of the month for June, 2022 after his distinctive outings towards New Zealand within the first Test sequence of the England summer time. Bairstow’s counter-attacking innings, shifted momentum within the final two Test matches of the the three-match sequence towards Kane Williamson’s workforce and earned the hosts essential factors within the World Test Championship cycle, a match the place they’d been tottering below the management of Joe Root.

England modified their captaincy to Ben Stokes forward of their summer time at residence, and had a turnaround of their fortunes. England went from a conservative to an attacking facet in a single day and whitewashed the New Zealand facet, which dominated them within the final summer time, proper forward of the World Test Championship last.

Jonny Bairstow has hit 5 Test centuries in 2022 probably the most by a participant on this calendar 12 months #WTC23 | #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/dbhnKYxE2g

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Bairstow was the shining star beside former England captain Joe Root in that sequence, however pipped him for the award for his attacking nature and bringing pleasure again into Test cricket. The proper hander didn’t cease there and scored twin centuries towards India within the fifth, rearranged Test match between India and England. Bairstow’s first one got here after Virat Kohli poked him, which turned his struggling innings into an interesting one inside an area of simply few balls.

The second one was a extra affected person one for his workforce, the place he mixed with Joe Root to chase down a report goal within the last two days of the sport at Edgbaston.

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