Crick­eter Anisa Mo­hammed said she was sur­prised to be named in the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil's (ICC) Women's One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al Team of the Decade an­nounced on Mon­day in Lon­don.

The 32-year-old right-arm off-spin­ner said that it was a good feel­ing and al­though the ac­co­lade was un­ex­pect­ed it was a huge ho­n­our to be in­clud­ed among some of the most elite names in the in­ter­na­tion­al women's game.

Al­so named by the ICC was West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard on the ODI Men's Team of the Decade. The big-hit­ting Pol­lard was re­cent­ly picked to lead the Red Force in the up­com­ing CWI re­gion­al Su­per50 Cup in An­tigua & Bar­bu­da from Feb­ru­ary 4-27.

Mo­hammed is cur­rent­ly the cap­tain of the women's Red Force Di­vas team and vice-skip­per of the West In­dies side.

The San­gre Grande na­tive, who may be bet­ter known for her T20 ex­ploits, said she thought that her more im­pres­sive sta­tis­tics in the 50-Overs for­mat for the West In­dies may have giv­en her the edge.

In the pe­ri­od un­der re­view by the ICC, Mo­hammed has tak­en 116 of her 151 ODI wick­ets in 87 match­es for an av­er­age of just un­der 20, plac­ing her fourth on the all-time list of dis­missals. She is al­so the first West In­di­an to cap­ture 100 ODI wick­ets.

She said that her most mem­o­rable per­for­mance was a spec­tac­u­lar haul of sev­en wick­ets for 14 runs play­ing for the West In­dies against Pak­istan in Bangladesh in the 2011 World Cup Qual­i­fiers. That year was clear­ly a mile­stone in her ca­reer as she fin­ished with 37 ODI wick­ets, the most in a cal­en­dar year.

In the process, Mo­hammed erased the long-stand­ing record held by Aus­tralian Char­maine Ma­son set in 2000.

Mo­hammed al­so has the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing ad­judged ODI “Play­er of the Match” ten times, and has been award­ed “Play­er of the Se­ries” twice, at home, and away.

On Wednes­day, Mo­hammed paid trib­ute to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board and the T&T Women's Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion for their un­wa­ver­ing sup­port which helped her es­tab­lish her­self as one of the su­per­stars of the women's game.

She said that Ann Browne-John, vice-pres­i­dent of the TTWCA has pro­vid­ed en­cour­age­ment and mo­ti­va­tion since she made her de­but on the na­tion­al stage as a 14-year-old and con­tin­ues to be count­ed on for help and ad­vice.

Mo­hammed al­so said that na­tion­al women's team man­ag­er Ma­jorie Thomas has al­so played a great role in seek­ing af­ter her wel­fare with a con­cern about her gen­er­al well­be­ing and crick­et ca­reer.

In re­sponse to the crick­eter's lat­est recog­ni­tion by the world or­ga­ni­za­tion, TTWCA boss Gayle Daniel-Wor­rell said she was elat­ed on the ac­com­plish­ment and de­scribed Mo­hammed as an am­bas­sador of lo­cal and re­gion­al crick­et who is a role mod­el for young peo­ple.

”We are quite hap­py Anisa has re­ceived this award which she has thor­ough­ly earned through her per­for­mance over the pe­ri­od un­der the ICC re­view,” Daniel-Wor­rell said.

Pres­i­dent of the TTCB, Az­im Bas­sarath al­so ex­tend­ed his con­grat­u­la­tions to Mo­hammed, de­scrib­ing her as one of the great suc­cess sto­ries of lo­cal crick­et which con­tin­ues to pro­duce play­ers of ex­cep­tion­al qual­i­ty ca­pa­ble of tak­ing their place on the world stage by sheer tal­ent, hard work and de­ter­mi­na­tion.

He al­so said the TTCB was very pleased that Red Force cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard was vot­ed on the ICC Men's One-Day in­ter­na­tion­al Team of the Decade which he said came as no sur­prise as the pow­er-hit­ting all-rounder has been in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­knowl­edged as one the world's lead­ing crick­eters in the short­er for­mats of the game.

“In both Anisa and Kieron we have two out­stand­ing hu­man be­ings who make all cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go proud and con­tin­ue to set the stan­dard in crick­et for gen­er­a­tions to come,” said Bas­sarath.