Six rising cricket-playing nations — Mexico, Oman, Netherlands, UAE, Nepal and Scotland — have been on Wednesday introduced as winners of the ICC Growth Awards for his or her path-breaking initiatives for the expansion of the game globally.
Launched in 2002, the awards are in recognition of the initiatives being taken by the ICC Affiliate Members to advertise the sport globally by means of revolutionary growth programmes or inspiring efforts on the sector of play.
The six nations have been chosen from a listing of 21 rising cricket-playing nations.
The Mexico Cricket Affiliation has been awarded the ‘ICC Growth Initiative of the Yr’ prize for pioneering initiatives, together with sending a crew to the Road Little one Cricket World Cup in India, and the “Cricket in Prisons” programme, during which they ship cricket periods in prisons throughout Mexico Metropolis.
“Oman Cricket claimed the 100 per cent Feminine Cricket Initiative of the Yr award for the Cricket4Her programme,” mentioned an ICC assertion.
“The ICC Affiliate Member Males’s Efficiency of the Yr prize was awarded to the Netherlands for his or her efforts in qualifying for the Males’s Cricket World Cup in India, whereas the UAE gained the Affiliate Member Ladies’s Efficiency of the Yr award after a powerful unbeaten spell, which noticed them triumph on the Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 Asia Qualifier in Malaysia,” the assertion added.
Cricket Affiliation of Nepal clinched the ICC Digital Fan Engagement of the Yr award following substantial progress on their social channels, and Cricket Scotland have been victorious within the Cricket 4 Good Social Influence Initiative of the Yr class.