Wolvaardt, Jansen win major at CSA Annual Awards

Reeza Hendricks won the T20I prize, while Quinton de Kock was named the men's International player of the year.

Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa's children's captain, was the great win at the CSA Annual Awards, where she picked up five medals including Women's Player of the Year following a brilliant 2023-24 time. No only did Wolvaardt take the leadership position entirely in the past year, she was even South Africa's leading run-scorer in ODIs and T20Is in the period under consideration.

Appropriately, she was named the Women's ODI Player of the Year and Women's T20I Player of the Year. Her popularity among her team-mates and supporters was evident in the presence of both the Players ' Player of the Year and the Fans ' Player of the Year prizes.

She was joined by Marco Jansen, who was named as the Men's Player of the Year in acknowledgment of his all-round accomplishments which included 17 innings at the ODI World Cup and remarkable achievements with bat and ball in the Boxing Day Test against India.

The prizes recognise efforts from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024, but appearances at June's Men's T20 World Cup and in Test and T20I set in West Indies may be considered only at next week's activities. The reason for the honors being held in September rather than immediately after the year in May is because CSA's partners require all nationally contracted people to look at the meeting and that would not be feasible in May because of the IPL.

Selection criteria for a Examine player of the Year were difficult because South Africa only played four Checks during the time being considered, two against India and two against a second-string team in New Zealand. David Bedingham, who scored 56 on album against India and 87 and 110 in his two next innings in New Zealand, was recognised for his work. Bedingham was even named the International Newcomer of the Year.

In white-ball forms, Quinton de Kock, who has now retired from 50-over cricket, was named the ODI Player of the Year after his four decades at the 2023 World Cup. Reeza Hendricks, however, won the T20I Player of the Year prize. The only North American dough to have reached half a century during the time frame that did not include the T20 World Cup. The left-arm spinner, Keshav Maharaj, who defied medical advice to play in the ODI World Cup and recover from an Achilles tear three weeks early, was chosen by his peers as the Players ' Player of the Year.

Two other star honors were won by female tournaments: the Best Supply Fuelled by KFC and Makhaya Ntini Power of Cricket Award. The best game of the season was taken home by Marianne Kapp's inswinger in South Africa's first International victory over Australia, and Masabata Klaas was recognized for overcoming the odds to establish a cricket career. The Makhaya Ntini honor, which is in its fourth month, seeks to realise players who, like Ntini, have risen above challenging circumstances and this is the first moment the honor has been won by a female bowler.

Klaas had her daughter Rethabile in 2013, just before South Africa's women's cricket professionalised, and she has been a single mother though her career. She took three years out of the game but with the support of her own mother, Paulinah, was able to return to cricket and played a key role in South Africa's automatic qualification to the 2021 50-over World Cup. She became the 10th women's bowler to take a hat-trick, doing it against Pakistan in 2019. She is seventh on South Africa's all-time ODI wicket-takers ' list and sixth in T20Is. Earlier this year, she spoke to ESPNcricnfo's Powerplay podcast about her journey in the game and how she has taken on a mentoring role in the women's side. Klaas and other cricketing mothers were also on the most recent episode of Powerplay.

On the domestic front, legspinner Nqabayomzi Peter who bowled the Lions to victory in the CSA T20 Cup and made his international debut in June was named the men's Domestic Newcomer of the Season and T20 Challenge Player of the Season. Lions ' allrounder Wiaan Mulder, who was the third-highest run-scorer and took 16 wickets in pision one of the four-day pision one first-class competition was named four-day domestic Player of the Season. Western Province allrounder Mihlali Mpongwana, the joint second-highest wicket-taker in the one-day cup, won the one-day Domestic Player of the Season award. In the women's domestic competition, left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba was named women's one-day Player of the Season, while Tazmin Brits won the women's T20 Player of the Season award after finishing as the leading run-scorer in the domestic tournament, with three centuries.