ICC Awards | |
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Current: 2023 ICC Awards | |
Awarded for | Excellence in International cricket team and individual achievements |
Presented by | ICC |
First awarded | 7 September 2004 |
Most awards | Men's: Virat Kohli (10 awards) Women's: Ellyse Perry (6 awards) |
Website | ICC Awards |
The ICC Awards is an International cricket award presented annually by the sport's governing body, ICC. [1]
The first awarding ceremony was held on 7 September 2004 in London, England. Between 2009 and 2014 the awards were known as the LG ICC Awards for sponsorship reasons. [2]
Virat Kohli holds the record for most awards by an individual with 10 awards.
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | [[]] |
Year | Winner |
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2005 | Jacques Kallis Andrew Flintoff (Shared) |
2006 | Ricky Ponting |
2007 | |
2008 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul |
2009 | Mitchell Johnson |
2010 | Sachin Tendulkar |
2011 | Jonathan Trott |
2012 | Kumar Sangakkara |
2013 | Michael Clarke |
2014 | Mitchell Johnson |
2015 | Steve Smith |
2016 | Ravichandran Ashwin |
2017 | Virat Kohli |
2018 | |
2019 | Ben Stokes |
2021 | Shaheen Afridi |
2022 | Babar Azam |
2023 | Pat Cummins |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 |
Year | Winner |
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2004 | Rahul Dravid |
2005 | Jacques Kallis |
2006 | Ricky Ponting |
2007 | Mohammad Yousuf |
2008 | Dale Steyn |
2009 | Gautam Gambhir |
2010 | Virender Sehwag |
2011 | Alastair Cook |
2012 | Kumar Sangakkara |
2013 | Michael Clarke |
2014 | Mitchell Johnson |
2015 | Steve Smith |
2016 | Ravi Ashwin |
2017 | Steve Smith |
2018 | Virat Kohli |
2019 | Pat Cummins |
2021 | Joe Root |
2022 | Ben Stokes |
2023 | Usman Khawaja |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Virat Kohli |
Year | Winner |
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2004 | Andrew Flintoff |
2005 | Kevin Pietersen |
2006 | Michael Hussey |
2007 | Mathew Hayden |
2008 | MS Dhoni |
2009 | |
2010 | AB de Villiers |
2011 | Kumar Sangakkara |
2012 | Virat Kohli |
2013 | Kumar Sangakkara |
2014 | AB de Villiers |
2015 | |
2016 | Quinton de Kock |
2017 | Virat Kohli |
2018 | |
2019 | Rohit Sharma |
2021 | Babar Azam |
2022 | |
2023 | Virat Kohli |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Rashid Khan |
Year | Winner |
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2021 | Mohammad Rizwan |
2022 | Suryakumar Yadav |
2023 |
Year | Winner |
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2004 | Irfan Pathan |
2005 | Kevin Pietersen |
2006 | Ian Bell |
2007 | Shaun Tait |
2008 | Ajantha Mendis |
2009 | Peter Siddle |
2010 | Steven Finn |
2011 | Devendra Bishoo |
2012 | Sunil Narine |
2013 | Cheteshwar Pujara |
2014 | Gary Ballance |
2015 | Josh Hazlewood |
2016 | Mustafizur Rahman |
2017 | Hasan Ali |
2018 | Rishabh Pant |
2019 | Marnus Labuschagne |
2021 | Janneman Malan |
2022 | Marco Jansen |
2023 | Rachin Ravindra |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Kyle Coetzer |
Year | Winner |
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2007 | Thomas Odoyo |
2008 | Ryan ten Doeschate |
2009 | William Porterfield |
2010 | Ryan ten Doeschate |
2011 | |
2012 | George Dockrell |
2013 | Kevin O'Brien |
2014 | Preston Mommsen |
2015 | Khurram Khan |
2016 | Mohammad Shahzad |
2017 | Rashid Khan |
2018 | Calum MacLeod |
2019 | Kyle Coetzer |
2021 | Zeeshan Maqsood |
2022 | Gerhard Erasmus |
2023 | Bas De Leede |
Test Team of the Decade | ||||
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Batting position | Player | Team | Role | |
Opener | Alastair Cook | England | Batsman | |
David Warner | Australia | Batsman | ||
Number 3 | Kane Williamson | New Zealand | Batsman | |
Number 4 | Virat Kohli | India | Batsman / Captain | |
Number 5 | Steve Smith | Australia | Batsman | |
Number 6 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | Batsman / (wk) | |
Number 7 | Ben Stokes | England | All-rounder | |
Number 8 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | All-rounder | |
Number 9 | Dale Steyn | South Africa | Bowler | |
Number 10 | Stuart Broad | England | Bowler | |
Number 11 | James Anderson | England | Bowler |
ODI Team of the Decade | ||||
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Batting position | Player | Team | Role | |
Opener | Rohit Sharma | India | Batsman | |
David Warner | Australia | Batsman | ||
Number 3 | Virat Kohli | India | Batsman | |
Number 4 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | Batsman | |
Number 5 | Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | All-rounder | |
Number 6 | MS Dhoni | India | Batsman / Captain (wk) | |
Number 7 | Ben Stokes | England | All-rounder | |
Number 8 | Jasprit Bumrah | India | Bowler | |
Number 9 | Trent Boult | New Zealand | Bowler | |
Number 10 | Imran Tahir | South Africa | Bowler | |
Number 11 | Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka | Bowler |
T20I Team of the Decade | ||||
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Batting position | Player | Team | Role | |
Opener | Rohit Sharma | India | Batsman | |
Chris Gayle | West Indies | Batsman | ||
Number 3 | Aaron Finch | Australia | Batsman | |
Number 4 | Virat Kohli | India | Batsman | |
Number 5 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | Batsman | |
Number 6 | Glenn Maxwell | Australia | All-rounder | |
Number 7 | MS Dhoni | India | Batsman / captain (wk) | |
Number 8 | Kieron Pollard | West Indies | All-rounder | |
Number 9 | Rashid Khan | Afghanistan | Bowler | |
Number 10 | Jasprit Bumrah | India | Bowler | |
Number 11 | Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka | Bowler |
Year | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11 | |
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2021 [41] | Jos Buttler | Mohammad Rizwan (wk) | Babar Azam (c) | Glenn Phillips | Mitchell Marsh | David Miller | Tabraiz Shamsi | Josh Hazlewood | Wanindu Hasaranga | Mustafizur Rahman | Shaheen Afridi | |
2022 [42] | Jos Buttler (c) (wk) | Mohammad Rizwan | Virat Kohli | Suryakumar Yadav | Glenn Phillips | Sikandar Raza | Hardik Pandya | Sam Curran | Wanindu Hasaranga | Haris Rauf | Josh Little | |
2023 [43] | Yashaswi Jaiswal | Phil Salt | Nicholas Pooran (wk) | Suryakumar Yadav (c) | Mark Chapman | Sikandar Raza | Alpesh Ramjani | Mark Adair | Ravi Bishnoi | Richard Ngarava | Arshdeep Singh |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Ellyse Perry |
Year | Winner |
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2006 | Karen Rolton |
2007 | Jhulan Goswami |
2008 | Charlotte Edwards |
2009 | Claire Taylor |
2010 | Shelley Nitschke |
2011 | Stafanie Taylor |
2012 | Not awarded |
2013 | |
2014 | |
2015 | |
2016 | |
2017 | Ellyse Perry |
2018 | Smriti Mandhana |
2019 | Ellyse Perry |
2021 | Smriti Mandhana |
2022 | Nat Sciver-Brunt |
2023 |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Ellyse Perry |
Year | Winner |
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2012 | Stafanie Taylor |
2013 | Suzie Bates |
2014 | Sarah Taylor |
2015 | Meg Lanning |
2016 | Suzie Bates |
2017 | Amy Satterthwaite |
2018 | Smriti Mandhana |
2019 | Ellyse Perry |
2021 | Lizelle Lee |
2022 | Nat Sciver-Brunt |
2023 | Chamari Athapaththu |
Year | Winner |
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2011-2020 | Ellyse Perry |
Year | Winner |
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2012 | Sarah Taylor |
2013 | |
2014 | Meg Lanning |
2015 | Stafanie Taylor |
2016 | Suzie Bates |
2017 | Beth Mooney |
2018 | Alyssa Healy |
2019 | |
2021 | Tammy Beaumont |
2022 | Tahlia McGrath |
2023 | Hayley Matthews |
Year | Winner |
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2017 | Beth Mooney |
2018 | Sophie Ecclestone |
2019 | Chanida Sutthiruang |
2021 | Fatima Sana |
2022 | Renuka Singh Thakur |
2023 | Phoebe Litchfield |
Year | Winner |
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2021 | Andrea-Mae Zepeda |
2022 | Esha Oza |
2023 | Queentor Abel |
Year | Winner |
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2004 | Simon Taufel |
2005 | |
2006 | |
2007 | |
2008 | |
2009 | Aleem Dar |
2010 | |
2011 | |
2012 | Kumar Dharmasena |
2013 | Richard Kettleborough |
2014 | |
2015 | |
2016 | Marais Erasmus |
2017 | |
2018 | Kumar Dharmasena |
2019 | Richard Illingworth |
2021 [53] | Marais Erasmus |
2022 | Richard Illingworth |
2023 |
Teams
Year | Winner |
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2004 | New Zealand |
2005 | England |
2006 | |
2007 | Sri Lanka |
2008 | |
2009 | New Zealand |
2010 | |
2023 | Zimbabwe |
Players
Year | Winner |
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2011 | MS Dhoni |
2012 | Daniel Vettori |
2013 | Mahela Jayawardene |
2014 | Katherine Brunt |
2015 | Brendon McCullum |
2016 | Misbah-ul-Haq |
2017 | Anya Shrubsole |
2018 | Kane Williamson |
2019 | Virat Kohli |
2020 | MS Dhoni (Decade) |
2021 | Daryl Mitchell |
2022 | Aasif Sheikh |
In 2021, The award was succeeded by ICC T20I Player of the Year, which is given to a player based on his performance in the whole year.
Year | Winner |
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2008 | Yuvraj Singh |
2009 | Tillakaratne Dilshan |
2010 | Brendon McCullum |
2011 | Tim Southee |
2012 | Richard Levi |
2013 | Umar Gul |
2014 | Aaron Finch |
2015 | Faf du Plessis |
2016 | Carlos Brathwaite |
2017 | Yuzvendra Chahal |
2018 | Aaron Finch |
2019 | Deepak Chahar |
Year | Player |
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2006 | Mahela Jayawardene |
2007 | Ricky Ponting |
Year | Winner | |
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2010 [54] | Format | |
Test | ODI | |
India | Australia |
Year | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11 | 12th woman |
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2016 [55] | Suzie Bates | Rachel Priest (wk) | Smriti Mandhana | Stafanie Taylor (c) | Meg Lanning | Ellyse Perry | Heather Knight | Deandra Dottin | Suné Luus | Anya Shrubsole | Leigh Kasperek | Kim Garth |
Year | Winner |
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2010 | Sachin Tendulkar |
2011 | Kumar Sangakkara |
2012 | |
2013 | MS Dhoni |
2014 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
Year | Winner |
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2018 | India winning the Under-19 Cricket World Cup |
In January 2021, the ICC introduced "Player of the Month" awards to recognise cricketers, male and female, that performed best across all forms of international cricket each month. Nominees and winners are determined by an ICC panel of ex-players and journalists, with a public vote having a 10% contribution to the final results. [56] [57] [58]
Country | Men's Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Women's Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Men's Test Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year/Decade | Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year | Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year | Total awards |
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Australia | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 37 |
India | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 29 |
England | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 22 |
South Africa | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
Pakistan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
West Indies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The ICC Development Awards was launched in 2002, to recognise the ICC associate member nations for its innovative development programmes and inspiring efforts on the field of play. [60]
ICC introduced a new set of awards in 2019. The six categories were: Gray-Nicholls Participation Programme of the Year (now. ICC Development Initiative of the Year), 100% Cricket Women’s Cricket Initiative of the Year, ICC Associate Member Men’s Performance of the Year, ICC Associate Member Women’s Performance of the Year, ICC Digital Fan Engagement of the Year and Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of the Year. The Global winner in each category is chosen from the Regional winners coming from all five ICC regions. [61] [62]
ICC announces the award winners every year separately to annual ICC Awards.
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | PNG (EAP) | Botswana (ACA) Malaysia (ACC) Netherlands (EUR) Brazil (AME) |
2020 | Argentina (AME) [63] | Namibia (ACA) Nepal (ACC) Italy (EUR) Vanuatu (EAP) |
2021 | Namibia (ACA) | Hong Kong (ACC) Netherlands (EUR) Argentina (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
2022 | Namibia (ACA) | Hong Kong (ACC) Serbia (EUR) Peru (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
2023 | Mexico (AME) [64] | Nigeria (ACA) Qatar (ACC) Italy(EUR) PNG (EAP) |
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | Rwanda (ACA) | Bhutan (ACC) Scotland (EUR) Chile (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
2020 | Brazil (AME) | Nigeria (ACA) Malaysia (ACC) Denmark (EUR) Samoa (EAP) |
2021 | Bahrain (ACC) [65] | Sierra Leone (ACA) Germany (EUR) USA (AME) Vanuatu (EAP) |
2022 | Nigeria (ACA) [66] | Nepal (ACC) Romania (EUR) None (AME) PNG (EAP) |
2023 | Oman (ACC) [67] | Sierra Leone (ACA) Belgium (EUR) Costa Rica (AME) Japan (EAP) |
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | Namibia (ACA) | NA |
2020 | Not Awarded | NA |
2021 | Namibia (ACA) | UAE (ACC) Scotland (EUR) Argentina (AME) PNG (EAP) |
2022 | Namibia (ACA) | UAE (ACC) Netherlands (EUR) None (AME) Japan (EAP) |
2023 | Netherlands (EUR) [68] | Sierra Leone (ACA) Oman (ACC) Canada (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | Thailand (ACC) | NA |
2020 | Not Awarded | NA |
2021 | Thailand (ACC) | Namibia (ACA) Scotland (EUR) Brazil (AME) None (EAP) |
2022 | Rwanda (ACA) | Thailand (ACC) Scotland (EUR) Argentina (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
2023 | UAE (ACC) [69] | Sierra Leone (ACA) Scotland (EUR) Argentina (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | Finland (EUR) | NA |
2020 | Vanuatu (EAP) | Namibia (ACA) Kuwait (ACC) Jersey (EUR) USA (AME) |
2021 | Estonia (EUR) | Kuwait (ACC) Uganda (ACA) Canada (AME) PNG (EAP) |
2022 | Uganda (ACA) | Bahrain (ACC) Finland (EUR) None (AME) Japan (EAP) |
2023 | Nepal (ACC) [70] | Namibia (ACA) Netherlands (EUR) Bermuda (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
Year | Global Winner | Regional Winners (Nominees) |
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2019 | Japan (ACC) | NA |
2020 | Uganda (ACA) | Bhutan (ACC) Italy (EUR) Peru (AME) Indonesia (EAP) |
2021 | Nigeria (ACA) | Bhutan (ACC) Italy (EUR) Peru (AME) Samoa (EAP) |
2022 | Namibia (ACA) | Bhutan (ACC) Croatia (EUR) Brazil (AME) Fiji (EAP) |
2023 | Scotland (EUR) | Sierra Leone (ACA) Bahrain (ACC) Mexico (AME) Samoa (EAP) |
The judging/voting period was originally from 1 August of the current year to 31 July of the next year. It then underwent two changes and used to take place between September of the current year and September of the next year.
The ICC Selection Committee comprised eminent former players (one chairman, four other members) who selected the finalists for the Cricketer of the Year, Test Player of the Year, ODI Player of the Year and the Emerging Player of the Year, as well as the final ICC Test Team of the Year and ICC ODI Team of the Year.
ICC Selection Committee | |||||
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Year | Chairman | Members | |||
2004 | Richie Benaud | Ian Botham | Sunil Gavaskar | Michael Holding | Barry Richards |
2005 | Sunil Gavaskar | David Gower | Richard Hadlee | Rod Marsh | Courtney Walsh |
2006 | Allan Donald | Ian Healy | Arjuna Ranatunga | Waqar Younis | |
2007 | Chris Cairns | Gary Kirsten | Iqbal Qasim | Alec Stewart | |
2008 | Clive Lloyd | Greg Chappell | Shaun Pollock | Sidath Wettimuny | Athar Ali Khan |
2009 | Anil Kumble | Mudassar Nazar | Stephen Fleming | Bob Taylor | |
2010 | Angus Fraser | Duncan Fletcher | Matthew Hayden | Ravi Shastri | |
2011 | Paul Adams | Zaheer Abbas | Danny Morrison | Mike Gatting | |
2012 | Marvan Atapattu | Tom Moody | Carl Hooper | Clare Connor | |
2013 | Anil Kumble | Alec Stewart | Catherine Campbell | Waqar Younis | Graeme Pollock |
2014 | Jonathan Agnew | Russel Arnold | Stephen Fleming | Betty Timmer | |
2015 | Ian Bishop | Mark Butcher | Belinda Clark | Gundappa Viswanath |
The final selection for the awards were previously voted on by an academy of 56 (expanded from 50 in 2004–05), which included current national team captains of Test playing nations (10), members of the Elite panel of ICC umpires and referees (18), prominent former players and cricket correspondents (28). In the event of a tie in the voting, awards are shared.
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