India’s Arundhati Reddy and Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan have been named ICC Players of the Month for February 2026, recognising their standout performances in international T20 cricket.
The ICC has announced the February Player of the Month shortlists. Men’s nominees include Sahibzada Farhan, Will Jacks, and Shadley van Schalkwyk, while India’s Arundhati Reddy features in the women’s list alongside Harshitha Samarawickrama and Fatima Sana.
During the fifth and final T20I at the Greenfield International Stadium, Deepti surpassed Australia’s Megan Schutt by claiming her 152nd wicket, trapping Nilakshika Silva lbw to etch her name into the record books.
It was a day of smiles and stories when India’s women’s cricket team fresh from their historic World Cup victory met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi.
Dropped from the last edition of the ODI World Cup, Jemimah worked tirelessly over the next three years to deservingly earn a call-up in the 2025 World Cup squad.
“To be honest, the 2007 T20 World Cup that India won inspired me to start playing cricket, but it was the 2011 World Cup at home, with Sachin sir being part of it and everything that happened that year, that really left a mark on me,” she recalled.
Indian women’s team pacer Arundhati Reddy has been reprimanded for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the women’s T20 World Cup Group A match against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday.
