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India's Deepti Sharma was among the six players shortlisted for the ICC Player of the Month awards here on Thursday.

Deepti scored 106 not out in her only outing with the bat in a home ICC Women’s Championship series match against Zimbabwe and took five wickets at an economy rate of 3.42.

India blanked Zimbabwe 3-0 the 50-overs series.

In three T20Is that preceded the ODIs, Deepti batted only once, scoring 49 off 37 balls and chipped in with two scalps with her off-spin.

The other players who were shortlisted include South Africa’s Marco Jansen, Pakistan’s Arafat Minhas, West Indies captain Shai Hope, Australia’s Annabel Sutherland, and Bangladesh’s Sobhana Mostary.

Jansen topped the bowlers’ and all-rounders’ tables in the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings during this period, and Arafat was named the Player of the Series in the Pakistan Tri-Series. Hope made the shortlist on the back of some outstanding performances in white-ball cricket.

The three nominees for either category are shortlisted based on performances from the first to the last day of each calendar month. The shortlist is then voted on by the independent ICC Voting Academy and fans around the world.

The ICC Voting Academy comprises prominent members of the cricket fraternity including well-known journalists, former players, broadcasters, and members of the ICC Hall of Fame.

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The winners are announced every second week of the following month.