It emerged on Tuesday that after a stunning knock during the ongoing T20 World Cup, batsman Asif Ali has been voted the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s Player of the Month for October. The ICC report remarked that Asif scored 52 runs without defeat in three matches for the Greens in October at the T20 World Cup, scoring at a strike rate of 273.68. “Asif beat Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan and Namibia’s David Wiese to the men’s award,” the report said.
