Deepti Sharma and Marco Jansen win October ICC awards
WicketPulse · Published
India’s Deepti Sharma and South Africa’s Marco Jansen have won the ICC’s women’s and men’s Player of the Month awards for October 2026. The separate announcements were published on 13 November, recognising performances in the preceding month.
Deepti earns her second monthly award
Deepti won the women’s honour ahead of Bangladesh’s Sobhana Mostary and Australia’s Annabel Sutherland. The ICC described it as her second career Player of the Month award.
Her contribution against Zimbabwe combined 155 runs with seven wickets across formats. India went unbeaten through the six international matches. The award recognises that all-round contribution rather than a single batting or bowling performance.
Jansen takes his first men’s award
Jansen was selected ahead of Pakistan’s Arafat Minhas and West Indies’ Shai Hope. Minhas and Hope were nominees; the men’s winner is Jansen.
The South African helped his team come back from an opening defeat to win their Test series against Australia 2-1. In the second Test at Gqeberha, he made 85 in the first innings and took six wickets in the match as South Africa won by an innings and 31 runs.
Two categories, one award period
These are separate women’s and men’s awards for October 2026, announced in November. Deepti’s second career award and Jansen’s first describe their individual monthly-award histories, not the number of awards India or South Africa have won.