Sri Lanka’s growing movie star took domestic the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August 2024. Harshitha Madavi overcame competition from the Irish duo of Orla Prendergast and Gaby Lewis to win the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August 2024. The gifted left-handed top-order batter has long past from power to electricity in latest months, and persevered her stirring shape in August in opposition to Ireland. Notably, 3 of the ultimate 4 winners had been from Sri Lanka, consisting of Chamari Athapaththu who secured the award in each May and July. Madavi’s win makes it a double for Sri Lanka with Dunith Wellalage securing the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for August 2024. This is also the 0.33 woman’s award for the island country in 2024, with Athapaththu having received the award in May and July. The southpaw dominated Ireland in both ODI and T20I legs of the tour, securing a few monster ratings on the way. Fresh from an unbeaten sixty nine* against India in the Women’s Asia Cup very last at the cease of July, Madavi advanced her output upon arriving in Dublin as she registered rankings of 86*, a career-great effort from her stop, and sixty five from the two T20I suits to finish the two-fit collection as the main run-scorer for each aspects. Madavi endured her prolific shape inside the longer white-ball layout. In the 3-match ODI collection in opposition to the Irish as she poured in scores of 19, one zero five, and 48* to once more finish as the main run-scorer. Her century within the 2d ODI sport made her just the third Sri Lanka woman’s participant after Chamari Athapaththu and Vishmi Gunaratne to attain an ODI ton. Madavi says receiving the award is a shining moment in her gambling career so far. “I am extraordinarily satisfied with this recognition, which I recollect a brand new excessive in my profession. It in reality gives me quite a few self belief ahead of the huge opposition, the Women’s T20 World Cup. “This success would no longer had been feasible without the high-quality help community around me—my teammates, coaches, parents, my sister, brother, buddies, and mentors. I take this opportunity to thank them all. “I also want to commend the gamers who have been nominated alongside me for the Player of the Month award. They are immensely talented, and I cherished competing with such quality.”
