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Harry Brook and Ashleigh Gardner have been rewarded with the ICC Player of the Month awards for December 2022. While Brook beat Babar Azam and Travis Head to win the monthly award, Gardner, Australia’s No. 1 all-rounder for women, defeated Charlie Dean and Suzie Bates for the coveted title.

Riding on some impressive performances in T20Is, Mohammad Rizwan has been named the ICC Men's Player of the Month for September. The Pakistan wicket-keeper batter, who is currently the No. 1 T20I batter in the world, pipped India's Axar Patel and Australia's Cameron Green to win the award.

ICC Chairman Greg Barclay has remarked that the way domestic T20 leagues are emerging nowadays, it would not allow evolving Test cricket at any speed at all. Barclay, who has been holding the post since 2020, has also mentioned that there will be serious challenges for bilateral series in future.

The complete fixture list and schedule of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 was unveiled by the ICC on Wednesday, December 15. Hosts New Zealand will take on West Indies in the opening fixture in Tauranga on March 4, while India will begin their campaign against Pakistan two days later.