By Associated Press
England batter Joe Root and India pacer Jasprit Bumrah are among the four players in contention for the International Cricket Council’s men’s player of the year award.
Prolific England batter Harry Brook and Australia’s Travis Head are the other two men’s nominees announced by the ICC on Monday.
Bumrah has been superb with his seam bowling this year and produced another near unplayable spell when he took 5-57 in the fourth test against Australia, which finished Monday with a dramatic victory for the Australians.
It was his 13th five-wicket haul in tests and the 31-year-old now has 203 test wickets at an average of 19.42. He took 71 wickets in 13 tests this year, averaging a remarkably low 14.92. He also captured 15 wickets as India won their second men’s T20 World Cup title.
Root has enjoyed a brilliant year with the bat, scoring 1,556 runs from 17 tests with an average of
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