ESPNcricinfo Awards

ESPNcricinfo Awards
Awarded for	The best individual performances in International cricket and T20 Leagues over the previous calendar year.
Presented by	ESPNcricinfo
First award	19 December 2007 (2007-12-19)
Website	ESPNcricinfo

The ESPNcricinfo Awards are an annual set of sports awards for international cricket and T20 leagues around the world, which recognise and honour the best individual batting and bowling performances in cricket over the previous calendar year. The awards were introduced by ESPNcricinfo in 2007.

Men's awards

Men's Test batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	Kumar Sangakkara	192 v   Australia in Hobart
2008	Virender Sehwag	201* v   Sri Lanka in Galle
2009	Virender Sehwag [1]	293 v   Sri Lanka in Mumbai
2010	VVS Laxman [2]	96 v   South Africa in Durban
2011	Sachin Tendulkar [3]	146 v   South Africa in Cape Town
2012	Kevin Pietersen	186 v   India in Mumbai
2013	Shikhar Dhawan	187 v   Australia in Mohali
2014	Brendon McCullum	302 v   India in Wellington
2015	Kane Williamson [4] [5]	242* v   Sri Lanka in Wellington
2016	Ben Stokes	258 v   South Africa in Cape Town
2017	Steve Smith	109 v   India in Pune
2018	Cheteshwar Pujara	123 v   Australia in Adelaide
2019	Kusal Perera [6]	153* v   South Africa in Durban
2020	Ajinkya Rahane [7]	112 v   Australia in Melbourne
2021	Rishabh Pant [8]	89* v   Australia in Brisbane
2022	Jonny Bairstow	136* v   New Zealand in Nottingham
2023	Travis Head	163 v   India in London
2024	Ollie Pope	196 v   India in Hyderabad

Men's Test bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	Zaheer Khan	5/75 v   England in Trent Bridge
2008	Dale Steyn	5/67 v   Australia in Melbourne
2009	Jerome Taylor [9]	5/11 v   England in Kingston
2010	Dale Steyn [10]	7/51 v   India in Nagpur
2011	Doug Bracewell [11]	6/40 v   Australia in Hobart
2012	Vernon Philander [12]	5/30 v   England in London
2013	Mitchell Johnson	7/40 v   England in Adelaide
2014	Mitchell Johnson	7/68 v   South Africa in Centurion
2015	Stuart Broad	8/15 v   Australia in Nottingham
2016	Stuart Broad	6/17 v   South Africa in Johannesburg
2017	Nathan Lyon	8/50 v   India in Bengaluru
2018	Jasprit Bumrah	6/33 v   Australia in Melbourne
2019	Kemar Roach [13]	5/17 v   England in Bridgetown
2020	Josh Hazlewood	5/8 v   India in Adelaide
2021	Kyle Jamieson	5/31 v   India in Southampton
2022	Ebadot Hossain [14]	6/46 v   New Zealand in Mount Maunganui
2023	Nathan Lyon	8/64 v   India in Indore
2024	Shamar Joseph	7/68 v   Australia in Brisbane

Men's ODI batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	Adam Gilchrist	149 v   Sri Lanka in Bridgetown
2008	Sanath Jayasuriya	125 v   India in Karachi
2009	Sachin Tendulkar [15]	175 v   Australia in Hyderabad
2010	Sachin Tendulkar	200* v   South Africa in Gwalior
2011	Kevin O'Brien	113 v   England in Bengaluru
2012	Virat Kohli [16] [17]	133* v   Sri Lanka in Hobart
2013	Rohit Sharma	209 v   Australia in Bengaluru
2014	Rohit Sharma [18] [19]	264 v   Sri Lanka in Kolkata
2015	AB de Villiers	149 v   West Indies in Johannesburg
2016	Quinton de Kock	178 v   Australia in Centurion
2017	Fakhar Zaman [20]	114 v   India in London
2018	Ross Taylor	181* v   England in Dunedin
2019	Ben Stokes	84* v   New Zealand in London
2020	Glenn Maxwell	108 v   England in Manchester
2021	Fakhar Zaman [21]	193 v   South Africa in Johannesburg
2022	Mehedy Hasan Miraz	100* v   India in Mirpur
2023	Glenn Maxwell	201* v   Afghanistan in Mumbai
2024	Travis Head	154* v   England in Trent Bridge

Men's ODI bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	Lasith Malinga	4/54 v   South Africa in Providence
2008	Ajantha Mendis	6/13 v   India in Karachi
2009	Shahid Afridi	6/38 v   Australia in Dubai
2010	Umar Gul	6/42 v   England in London
2011	Mitchell Johnson	6/31 v   Sri Lanka in Pallekele
2012	Thisara Perera	6/44 v   Pakistan in Pallekele
2013	Shahid Afridi	7/12 v   West Indies in Georgetown
2014	Lasith Malinga [22]	5/56 v   Pakistan in Mirpur
2015	Tim Southee	7/33 v   England in Wellington
2016	Sunil Narine [23]	6/27 v   South Africa in Providence
2017	Mohammad Amir	3/16 v   India in London
2018	Kuldeep Yadav	6/25 v   England in Nottingham
2019	Matt Henry	3/37 v   India in Manchester
2020	Blessing Muzarabani [24]	5/49 v   Pakistan in Rawalpindi
2021	Saqib Mahmood	4/42 v   Pakistan in Cardiff
2022	Jasprit Bumrah	6/19 v   England in London
2023	Mohammed Shami	7/57 v   New Zealand in Mumbai
2024	Jeffrey Vandersay	6/33 v   India in Colombo

Men's T20I batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	Yuvraj Singh	70 v   Australia in Durban
2008	N/A	-
2009	Chris Gayle [25]	88 v   Australia in London
2010	Michael Hussey	60* v   Pakistan in St. Lucia
2011	N/A	-
2012	Marlon Samuels	78 v   Sri Lanka in Colombo
2013	N/A	-
2014	Alex Hales	116* v   Sri Lanka in Chattogram
2015	Rohit Sharma [26]	106 v   South Africa in Dharamshala
2016	Carlos Brathwaite [27]	34* v   England in Kolkata
2017	Evin Lewis	125 v   India in Kingston
2018	Glenn Maxwell	103* v   England in Hobart
2019	Glenn Maxwell	113* v   India in Bengaluru
2020	Jonny Bairstow	86* v   South Africa in Cape Town
2021	Jos Buttler	101* v   Sri Lanka in Dubai
2022	Suryakumar Yadav	111* v   New Zealand in Mount Moungauni
2023	Suryakumar Yadav	112* v   Sri Lanka in Rajkot
2024	Rohit Sharma	92 v   Australia in Gros Islet

Men's T20I bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2007	RP Singh	4/13 v   South Africa in Durban
2008	N/A	-
2009	Umar Gul	5/6 v   New Zealand in London
2010	Tim Southee	5/18 v   Pakistan in Auckland
2011	N/A	-
2012	Lasith Malinga	5/31 v   England in Pallekele
2013	N/A	-
2014	Rangana Herath	5/3 v   New Zealand in Chattogram
2015	David Wiese	5/23 v   West Indies in Durban
2016	Mustafizur Rahman	5/22 v   New Zealand in Kolkata
2017	Yuzvendra Chahal [28]	6/25 v   England in Bengaluru
2018	Kuldeep Yadav	5/24 v   England in London
2019	Lasith Malinga	5/6 v   New Zealand in Pallekele
2020	Lockie Ferguson [29]	5/21 v   West Indies in Auckland
2021	Shaheen Afridi	3/31 v   India in Dubai
2022	Sam Curran	3/12 v   Pakistan in Melbourne
2023	Alzarri Joseph	5/40 v   South Africa in Johannesburg
2024	Jasprit Bumrah	2/18 v v   South Africa in Bridgetown

Men's Associate batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2016	Mohammad Shahzad [30]	118* v   Zimbabwe in Sharjah
2017	Kyle Coetzer	109 v   Zimbabwe in Edinburgh
2018	Calum MacLeod [31]	140* v   England in Edinburgh
2019	George Munsey	127* v   Netherlands in Dublin
2020	N/A	-
2021	Gerhard Erasmus	53* v   Ireland in Sharjah
2022	George Munsey	66* v   West Indies in Hobart
2023	Bas de Leede	123 v   Scotland in Bulawayo
2024	Aaron Jones	94 vs   Canada in Dallas

Men's Associate bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2016	Mohammad Nabi	2/16 v   Bangladesh in Mirpur
2017	Rashid Khan	7/18 v   West Indies in St. Lucia
2018	Safyaan Sharif [32]	5/33 v   Zimbabwe in Bulawayo
2019	Bilal Khan [33]	4/23 v   Hong Kong in Dubai
2020	N/A	-
2021	Ruben Trumpelmann [34]	3/17 v   Scotland in Abu Dhabi
2022	Brandon Glover	3/9 v   South Africa in Adelaide
2023	Brandon McMullen	5/34 v   Ireland in Bulawayo
2024	Saurabh Netravalkar	2/18 v   Pakistan in Dallas

Men's Debutant of the year

Year	Player
2013	Mohammed Shami
2014	N/A
2015	Mustafizur Rahman [35] [36]
2016	Mehidy Hasan Miraz
2017	Kuldeep Yadav
2018	Sam Curran
2019	Jofra Archer
2020	Kyle Jamieson
2021	Ollie Robinson
2022	Harry Brook
2023	Gerald Coetzee
2024	Shamar Joseph

Women's awards

Women's batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2016	Hayley Matthews	66 v   Australia in Kolkata
2017	Harmanpreet Kaur [37]	171* v   Australia in Derby
2018	Harmanpreet Kaur	103 v   New Zealand in Providence
2019	Meg Lanning	133* v   England in Chelmsford
2020	Alyssa Healy	75 v   India in Melbourne
2021	Beth Mooney	125* v   India in Mackay

Women's bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2016	Leigh Kasperek	3/13 v   Australia in Nagpur
2017	Anya Shrubsole	6/46 v   India in London
2018	Natalie Sciver	3/4 v   South Africa in Gros Islet
2019	Ellyse Perry	7/22 v   England in Canterbury
2020	Poonam Yadav	4/19 v   Australia in Sydney
2021	Kate Cross	5/34 v   India in Taunton

Women's ODI batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2022	Alyssa Healy	170 v   England in Christchurch
2023	Chamari Athapaththu	140* v   New Zealand in Galle
2024	Chamari Athapaththu	195* v   South Africa in Potchefstroom

Women's ODI Bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2022	Sophie Ecclestone	6/36 v   South Africa in Christchurch
2023	Marufa Akter	4/29 v   India in Mirpur
2024	Marizanne Kapp	3/12 v   Australia in North Sydney

Women's T20I batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2022	Smriti Mandhana	61 v   England in Birmingham
2023	Hayley Matthews	132 v   Australia in Sydney
2024	Anneke Bosch	74* v   Australia in Dubai

Women's T20I bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Performance
2022	Renuka Singh	4/18 v   Australia in Birmingham
2023	Ayabonga Khaka	4/29 v   England in Cape Town
2024	Amelia Kerr	3/24 v   South Africa in Dubai

Women's Debutant of the year

Year	Player
2024	Georgia Voll

Mixed awards

Captain of the Year

Year	Winner
2015	Brendon McCullum
2016	Virat Kohli [38]
2017	Heather Knight
2018	Meg Lanning
2019	Eoin Morgan [39] [40]
2020	N/A
2021	Kane Williamson [41]
2022	Ben Stokes
2023	Pat Cummins
2024	Pat Cummins (M)
	Sophie Devine (W)

Other awards

Men's T20 leagues batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Team	Performance
2022	Rajat Patidar	Royal Challengers Bangalore	112* v Lucknow Super Giants
2023	Nicholas Pooran	MI New York	137* v Seattle Orcas
2024	Josh Brown	Brisbane Heat	140 v Adelaide Strikers

Men's T20 leagues bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Team	Performance
2022	Umran Malik	Sunrisers Hyderabad	5/25 v Gujarat Titans
2023	Yuzvendra Chahal	Rajasthan Royals	4/29 v Sunrisers Hyderabad
2024	Jasprit Bumrah	Mumbai Indians	6/25 v Royal Challengers Bangaluru

Women's T20 leagues batting performance of the year

Year	Player	Team	Performance
2023	Grace Harris	Brisbane Heat	136* v Perth Scorcher
2024	Lizelle Lee	Hobart Hurricanes	150* v Perth Scorchers

Women's T20 leagues bowling performance of the year

Year	Player	Team	Performance
2023	Amanda-Jade Wellington	Adelaide Strikers	3/16 v Brisbane Heat
2024	Ellyse Perry	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	6/15 v Mumbai Indians

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