A big honour has been awarded to the Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers international women’s player – Annerie Dercksen.
The born-and-bred Beaufort West revelation has been nominated for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Emerging Women’s cricketer of the year for 2024.
It is that time of the year when the ICC celebrates the stand-out performances from an action-packed year of cricket through the annual ICC Awards, honouring stars from both the men’s and women’s game.
With nine categories in total, cricket fans around the world have the opportunity to cast their votes and help decide the winners of the ICC Awards 2024. Fans can visit the ICC website to cast their votes.
The other nominations for the category are: Shreyanka Patil (India), Saskia Horley (Scotland) and Freya Sargent (Ireland).
The 23-year old all-rounder has burst onto the international scene in January 2023 and has since represented the Proteas in all formats in two test matches, four one-day international test matches and twenty-two T20 international matches.
Dercksen, who participated in her second ICC T20 World Cup in 2024 was one of the heroes of the Proteas silver medal winners in the UAE hosted event.
Her teammate and captain, Laura Wolvaardt, was nominated as the ICC women’s player of the season in all formats (test, ODI and T20).
