Johmari and Ashlyn Nominated

Top South African cricketers, Johmari Logtenberg and Ashlyn Kilowan, have been nominated for the International Women’s Cricketer of the Year award after each full member country was allowed to put forward two names.

Logtenberg, who is also vice-captain of the national women’s cricket team, has been a consistent performer in the past few seasons.

In the ODI series against

Pakistan a few months ago, she scored the only century of the series, and made 188 runs in four innings at an average of 94.5.

She continues to produce consistently at both domestic and international level as she establishes herself as a quality player in the women’s game. 

Logtenberg, who turned 18 this year, was the dominant batsman in the

KwaZulu-Natal team in the coastal competition with 319 runs. She was only dismissed twice with an average of 159.5. She passed fifty in three of her five innings with a top score of 80 not out.

Kilowan, who made her international debut in 2003 against
England, was the outstanding bowler for
South Africa in the recent ODI series win over

Pakistan. Bowling brisk left arm seamers, Kilowan took 10 wickets with a best of 4-23.

She also produced a sterling performance for the Africa XI against Asia XI in the one-off Afro-Asia Twenty20 match in

Bangalore, returning with figures of 4-0-16-3. In the domestic competition, Kilowan’s return was equally impressive, taking 29 wickets in 13 matches, with a best of 5-18 against Griqualand West. 

In the domestic final, Kilowan bowled a superb final over to take the last wicket and hand

Western
Province a thrilling two run win. As a left hander middle order batsman, she made a career best 48 against

Free State.

Kilowan started playing cricket as a 17 year old in 2000 and made her provincial debut for Boland in the same year.

Other international players nominated for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year include India’s Rumeli Dhar and Jhulan Goswami, England’s Claire Taylor and Holly Covin, New Zealand’s Maria Fahey and Rebecca Rolls, Australia’s Shelley Nitschke and Lisa Sthalekar, Pakistan’s Urooj Mumtaz Khan and Sajida Shah, and Ireland’s Catriona Beggs

The International Women’s Cricketer of the Year will be announced at the annual ICC Awards in a glittering ceremony in Sandton on 10 September.