{"id":812971,"date":"2026-07-20T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:57:18","slug":"icc-mens-player-of-the-month-for-june-2026-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812971\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month for June 2026 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Smith has been named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/awards\/player-of-the-month\/mens-player-of-the-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month for June 2026<\/a> after a standout run of performances for New Zealand during the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC World Test Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith enjoyed a brilliant month as he spearheaded New Zealand&#8217;s memorable 2-1 Test series victory in England.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps pacer beat competition from Bangladesh\u2019s Mossadek Hossain and India\u2019s Shubman Gill to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really special. It was a great tour of England for the boys, and this is pretty cool,&#8221; Smith spoke after receiving the honour. &#8220;I don\u2019t usually play for individual awards, but it\u2019s nice to receive this recognition and, more importantly, to have contributed to a series win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, it was really satisfying to contribute to the win. That\u2019s all I want to do for New Zealand &#8211; try as hard as I can and contribute in whatever way I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Smith has been named the ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month for June 2026 after a standout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-812971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}