Mohammad Rizwan has won the PCB’s Most Valu-able Cricketer of the Year award following a stellar 2021 in which he scored 455 Test, 134 ODI and 1,326 T20I runs, besides accounting for 56 batsmen behind the wickets across all formats.
For the Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year award, Rizwan beat the challenge of Babar Azam, Hasan Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi, who also had an impressive and outstanding year, which is re-flected through Pakistan’s overall performance in 2021.
In addition to the Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year award, Rizwan was also unanimously se-lected by an independent panel* as the T20I Crick-eter of the Year.
Mohammad Rizwan: “I feel humbled and hon-oured to have been adjudged Pakistan’s Most Valu-able Cricketer of 2021. This is the PCB’s most pres-tigious award and to be recognised for my contribu-tions in the team’s superlative performances across all formats in 2021 in such a way gives me tremen-dous satisfaction and happiness.—APP
