New Delhi, Jan. 26 -- Promising South African star Annerie Dercksen was named the ICC Emerging Women's Cricketer of the Year for 2024 on Sunday, beating a tough line-up of competitors to win the prestigious honour, which included Scotland's Saskia Horley, India's Shreyanka Patil and Ireland's Freya Sargent.

Dercksen wore the green and golds for the first-ever time in January 2023 during the T20I triangular series featuring India and West Indies and has never looked back.

While the 23-year-old featured in five T20Is in her initial year, the all-rounder established herself in international cricket in 2024, in a year in which she also made her Test and ODI debuts.

If 2023 was the year of testing the waters, the all-rounder opened up in fu...