The Sri Lanka star Harshitha Madavi was named as the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August 2024. Madavi has come to the top after overcoming the competition from the Iris due of Orla Prendergast and Gaby Lewis to win the women’s player of the month for August 2024.
Notably, Sri Lanka players to have three of the last four winners have been from Sri Lanka, including Chamari Athapaththu who secured the award in both May and July.
Madavi’s win makes double ICC awards for Sri Lanka with Dunith Wellalage securing the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for August 2024. This is also the third woman’s award for Sri Lanka in 2024 after Chamari Athapaththu won the award in May and July.
Madavi scored an unbeaten 69 runs against India in the women’s Asia Cup final at the end of July, and has improved a lot scoring 86* runs in Dulin and 65 runs from the other two T20I matches to finish the two matches to complete the series as the leading run scorer for both sides.
With a third win in just four months, Sri Lanka’s dominance in securing the ICC Women’s Player of the Month Award shows no signs of slowing down 🔥
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While receiving the award, Madavi said, “I am extremely happy with this recognition, which I consider a new high in my career. It certainly gives me a lot of confidence ahead of the big competition, the Women’s T20 World Cup.
“This achievement would not have been possible without the incredible support network around me—my teammates, coaches, parents, my sister, brother, friends, and mentors. I take this opportunity to thank them all.
“I also wish to commend the players who were nominated alongside me for the Player of the Month award. They are immensely talented, and I loved competing with such quality,” said Madavi.
Madavi continues to maintain her form in the ODI format. In the three-match ODI series against the Irish, she smashed 19, 105, and 48* to finish as the leading run-scorer. Her century in the second ODI game made her just the third Sri Lanka woman’s player after Chamari Athapaththu and Vishmi Gunaratne to score an ODI ton.
