NAT SCIVER-BRUNT has retained the Women’s Cricketer of the Year award from the International Cricket Council after some influential displays over the last 12 months.

The seam bowling all-rounder was England’s player of the series in last summer’s drawn Ashes and finished second only to South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt in the 2023 T20 World Cup run charts.

Sciver-Brunt, who averaged 131 with the bat in five ODI knocks last year and made two pivotal hundreds in the Ashes, joins Australia’s Ellyse Perry and India’s Smriti Mandhana in winning the ICC gong twice.