Now hailed as the ‘Hero of the Gabba’, Baracara’s Shamar Joseph, the fast bowler who had a mercurial rise to fame after just two test matches in Australia, has been named as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Player of the Month for January.
Joseph’s emergence onto the international cricket scene was so prolific that he beat off the competition of English batsman Ollie Pope and Australian great Josh Hazlewood to claim the first men’s monthly award for 2024.
With his first delivery in test cricket, Joseph picked up the prized wicket of the world’s No. 2 ranked test batsman, Steve Smith.
