White Fern gets world gong
White Ferns cricketer Amy Satterthwaite has won the the ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year award.
Satterthwaite follows in the steps of White Ferns skipper Suzie Bates who won the same award last year.
Over the voting period from September 21 2016 to this month, Satterthwaite scored 1183 runs in
24 ODIs at an average of 84.5 and claimed 20 wickets.
The 31-year-old, who won her
100th ODI cap at the recent ICC Women’s World Cup, also became just the second player ever to score four consecutive ODI centuries, joining the illustrious company of Sri Lankan great, Kumar Sangakkara.
Satterthwaite, who is currently captaining the Melbourne Renegades in the WBBL, said it was a special moment to be recognised as the best one-day player in the world.
"It’s certainly a great honour and pretty humbling to be honest,’’ she said.
‘‘The first six months were a lot of cricket and I really enjoyed myself in the middle.
‘‘Everyone talks about the four hundreds and you need situations to go in your favour to do something like that. It was pretty special and something I will always remember. ‘‘It’s also nice to take over the award from Suzie and keep it in New Zealand hands.
‘‘Hopefully we can make it a White Ferns hat-trick next year!’’
Satterthwaite was runner-up for the supreme award, the inaugural Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year, which went to Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry.
The White Ferns are next in action in March when they face World T20 Champions the West Indies in an eight-game tour.
Perry has taken her game to another level this year, as reflected in an unbeaten 213 she posted during this year’s Ashes test at North Sydney Oval.
The star allrounder’s effort was the highest score by an Australian woman in a test.
Perry has also scored 905 runs and snared 22 wickets in 19 onedayers during the voting period, which covered this year’s World Cup in England. Australia opener Beth Mooney won the Twenty20 and emerging player of the year gongs.