The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Cricket Association honored T&T and West Indies cricketer Anisa Mohammed on being named in the ICC Team of the Decade at a function on Monday at the National Cricket Center, Balmain, Couva.
The team was named in January this year and Mohammed was the only woman from Trinidad and Tobago to be honored.
Mohammed, 32, has played 122 ODIs and 111 T20I for the West Indies in a career that started in 2003.
The off-spinner has 151 wickets in ODIs and 120 in T20 cricket, and was the first cricketer, male or female, to take 100 wickets in T20 cricket.
An elated Mohammed expressed her thanks to the T&T Cricket Board and the T&T Women’s Cricket Association for their gesture in a social media post on Monday.
“Today TTWCA and TTCB celebrated my most recent achievement of being named in the ICC ODI Team of the decade.
Thank you for not letting this achievement go unnoticed. @stacy19724 I really enjoyed your speech today 😁 thank you. Thanks to @bratcooper35 @mraguilleira and everyone else who took the time to be there today.,” Mohammed wrote on Facebook.
Former teammates Merissa Aguilleira, Britney Cooper, and Stacy Ann King attended the celebration, along with officials of the TTWCA and the TTCB.
The Secondary Schools Cricket League (SSCL) also paid tribute to Mohammed in a social media post on Monday: “TTWCA today honored Ms. Anissa Mohammed on her enormous, fantastic achievement as an ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade. The TTCB and SSCL also extended their congratulations on this historic achievement. Anissa’s career has truly being a very successful one. A great Mentor for our upcoming cricketers.”