Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

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ICC Award for Best Men's Cricketer
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.jpeg
Presented by ICC
First award2004
Final award2024
Currently held by Flag of India.svg Jasprit Bumrah (1st award)
Most awards Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ricky Ponting
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mitchell Johnson
Flag of India.svg Virat Kohli
(2 awards each)
Website ICC Awards

The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a Cricket trophy that is awarded annually by the International Cricket Council to the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year. It is considered to be the most prestigious of the annual ICC Awards and was first awarded in 2004 to Rahul Dravid.

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The trophy is named after former West Indies cricket captain Sir Garfield Sobers, whose name was chosen by a panel consisting of Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding. They were asked by the ICC to select "an individual with whom to honour cricket's ultimate individual award". [1]

Selection

The recipient of the annual award is selected by an "academy" of 56 individuals (expanded from 50 in 2004), including the current national team captains of the Test-playing nations (10), members of the elite panel of ICC umpires and referees (18), and certain prominent former players and cricket correspondents (28). In the event of a tie in the voting, the award is shared.

List of winners

Key
§Indicates individual was shortlisted
YearImageWinnerTeamNomineesNotesRef(s)
2004 Rahul Dravid Candid.jpg Rahul Dravid Flag of India.svg  India Also named Test Player of the Year [2] [3]
2005 Jacques Kallis 2.jpg Jacques Kallis Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Also named Test Player of the Year and selected as 12th man for the ODI Team of the Year [4] [5] [6]
Andrew Flintoff.jpg Andrew Flintoff Flag of England.svg  England Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year
2006 Ricky Ponting.jpg Ricky Ponting Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [7] [8]
2007 Ricky Ponting YM.jpg Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [9] [10]
2008 Shivnarine Chanderpaul.jpg Shivnarine Chanderpaul WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies Also named in the Test Team of the Year [11]
2009 Mitchell Johnson in profile, 2009.jpg Mitchell Johnson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Also named in the Test Team of the Year [12] [13]
2010 Sachin at Castrol Golden Spanner Awards (crop).jpg Sachin Tendulkar Flag of India.svg  India Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [14] [15] [16]
2011 Jonathan Trott1.jpg Jonathan Trott Flag of England.svg  England Also named in the Test Team of the Year [17] [18]
2012 Kumar Sangakkara bat in hand.JPG Kumar Sangakkara Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka Also named Test Player of the Year, named People's Choice Award, named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [19] [20]
2013 Clarke playing cricket at Birmingham 2009 crop.jpg Michael Clarke Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Also named Test Player of the Year [21] [22]
2014 MITCHELL JOHNSON (11705174114) (cropped).jpg Mitchell Johnson Also named Test Player of the Year [23] [24]
2015 2018.01.05.17.43.25-Usman Khawaja & Steve Smith (38876757994) (Smith cropped).jpg Steve Smith Also named Test Player of the Year and named in the ODI Team of the Year [25]
2016 Ravichandran Ashwin (cropped).jpg Ravichandran Ashwin Flag of India.svg  India Also named Test Player of the Year [26]
2017 Virat Kohli portrait.jpg Virat Kohli Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [27]
2018 Shri Virat Kohli for Cricket, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on September 25, 2018 (cropped).JPG Also named Test Player of the Year, named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [28]
2019 BEN STOKES (11704837023) (cropped).jpg Ben Stokes Flag of England.svg  England Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [29]
2021 Shaheen Afridi (2).jpg Shaheen Afridi Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Also named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year [30]
2022 Babar Azam in 2020.png Babar Azam Also named in the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [31]
2023 Pat Cummins fielding Ashes 2021 (cropped).jpg Pat Cummins Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year [32]
2024 Jasprit Bumrah in PMO New Delhi.jpg Jasprit Bumrah Flag of India.svg  India Also named the Test Cricketer of the Year, and named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year [33]

Superlatives

Wins by player

PlayerWinner
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ricky Ponting 2 (2006, 2007)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mitchell Johnson 2 (2009, 2014)
Flag of India.svg Virat Kohli 2 (2017, 2018)
Flag of India.svg Rahul Dravid 1 (2004)
Flag of South Africa.svg Jacques Kallis 1 (2005)
Flag of England.svg Andrew Flintoff 1 (2005)
WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg Shivnarine Chanderpaul 1 (2008)
Flag of India.svg Sachin Tendulkar 1 (2010)
Flag of England.svg Jonathan Trott 1 (2011)
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Kumar Sangakkara 1 (2012)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Clarke 1 (2013)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Steve Smith 1 (2015)
Flag of India.svg Ravichandran Ashwin 1 (2016)
Flag of England.svg Ben Stokes 1 (2019)
Flag of Pakistan.svg Shaheen Afridi 1 (2021)
Flag of Pakistan.svg Babar Azam 1 (2022)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pat Cummins 1 (2023)
Flag of India.svg Jasprit Bumrah 1 (2024)

Wins by country

CountryPlayersTotal
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 57
Flag of India.svg  India 56
Flag of England.svg  England 33
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 22
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 11
WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 11
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 11

See also

References

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