Arshdeep Singh was nominated for the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award. Besides him, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza, Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Australia’s Travis Head were also nominated. Fans were shocked to see underperforming Babar in the list, and called it “a joke of the year”. They also questioned Jasprit Bumrah’s exclusion as he ended the year with a POTT award in ICC Men’s T20I World Cup.