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SSC Selection Post 2022 PYQ — Question 30

SSC Selection Post - Higher Secondary Level 2022 - 15 March 2022 - Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q30

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In January 2022, who won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year for 2021?

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Correct answer: A

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 The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. Smriti Mandhana.

In January 2022, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award (ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year for 2021) was awarded to Smriti Mandhana of India. This prestigious honor recognized her outstanding performance throughout the year, including:

  • Scoring 855 runs across 22 international matches at an average of 38.86
  • Achieving one century and five half-centuries, notably a Test century against Australia
  • Delivering crucial innings in ODIs and T20Is, such as her unbeaten 80 and 48 against South Africa 

Mandhana joins an elite group of past winners and is the second Indian woman, after Jhulan Goswami, to claim this top ICC honor.