The 26-year-old batter enjoyed a record-breaking campaign, finishing as the highest run-getter in a single World Cup edition. Wolvaardt amassed 571 runs in 9 innings at an outstanding average of 71.37, which included two centuries and three fifties.
With the Women's World Cup returning to India and Sri Lanka, several long-standing records are on the line as some of the finest batters and bowlers in the game eye history, as per ICC.
ICC Hall of Famer Debbie Hockley has hailed Melie Kerr after the star all-rounder made history by becoming the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, as per International Cricket Council (ICC).
Kerr, the first player to be awarded the newly-minted Debbie Hockley Medal for the most outstanding women's cricketer of the year, was also named the ANZ Women's T20I Player of the Year.
Hockley, regarded as one of the world's best batters during her playing days and one of the finest to have played the game, will present the new award in person on the night.
Christchurch [New Zealand], November 11 (ANI): Anna Campbell and Rebecca Rolls were elected to the board of New Zealand Cricket (NZC) during its first-ever AGM-by-Zoom conference on Wednesday.