Hayley Matthews and Brandon King are our cover featured November West Indies cricket Female and Male Personalities of the Month. This is now the second month in a row that Matthews has received the award.
Hayley Matthews has had a stellar year for West Indies Women as she featured in the Top 10 among bowlers and batters in One-Day Internationals. She took 18 wickets at an average of 22.44 runs per wicket with best bowling of 4-26 in Karachi as international cricket returned to Pakistan in November. She also made 380 runs, which included one century – 100 not out against Pakistan in Antigua in July.
The allrounder topped off the excellent campaign as she received the ICC’s Women’s Player-of-the-Month award for November. In four ODIs in November – three in the bilateral series against Pakistan and one in the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier against Ireland – Matthews scored 141 runs and claimed nine wickets, including an excellent four-wicket haul against Pakistan in Karachi.
King was by far the most outstanding of the West Indies batsmen for the recently concluded T20 Pakistan hosted Series. He was the West Indies’ highest run-scorer and also had the best strike rate. His three innings included his career-best 67 in the second T20.
King played in all three matches scoring 111 runs in total at an average of 37.00. The Pakistan Series performance was King’s very best performance in West Indies T20I colours since his breakthrough CPL year in 2019. King, the now 26-year-old Guyana Amazon Warriors batsman, scored 496 runs in 12 innings at a strike rate of nearly 150 during CPL 2019, including a career best 132 against Barbadoa which was also the tournament;s highest ever individual score.