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ICC Awards
First awarded2004
Last awarded2019
Most awardsCricketer of the Year: Ricky Ponting, Mitchell Johnson, Virat Kohli (two awards)
Test Player of the Year: Steve Smith (two awards)
ODI Player of the Year: AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli (three awards)

The ICC Awards are an annual set of sports awards for international cricket, which recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months. The awards were introduced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2004. Between 2009 and 2014 the awards were known, for sponsorship reasons, as the LG ICC Awards.

Award categories

The following awards have been or currently are presented:

  • Players eligible for this award must be under 26 years of age at the start of the voting period and have played no more than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs before that date.
  • Associate Player of the Year
  • David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
  • Captain of the Year
  • Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award (Women's Cricketer of the Year)
  • Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year
  • Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year
  • Women's Emerging Player of the Year
  • Spirit of Cricket
Described by the ICC as being awarded to the team most notable for "upholding the 'Spirit of the Game'", involving respect for:
  • Their opponents
  • Their own captain and team
  • The role of the umpires
  • The game's traditional values

ICC Development Programme Awards

In December 2016, ICC Development Programme Awards were announced for the ICC's Associate and Affiliate Members aimed at creating improving structures within the 95 member federations.[1]

Methodology

The judging/voting period was originally from 1 August of the current year to 31 July of the next year. It has since undergone two changes and now takes place presently between September of the current year and September of the next year.

The ICC Selection Committee comprises eminent former players (one chairman, four other members) who select 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
Year Chairman Members
2004 Australia Richie Benaud England Ian Botham India Sunil Gavaskar Cricket West Indies Michael Holding South Africa Barry Richards
2005 India Sunil Gavaskar England David Gower New Zealand Richard Hadlee Australia Rod Marsh Cricket West Indies Courtney Walsh
2006 India Sunil Gavaskar South Africa Allan Donald Australia Ian Healy Sri Lanka Arjuna Ranatunga Pakistan Waqar Younis
2007 India Sunil Gavaskar New Zealand Chris Cairns South Africa Gary Kirsten Pakistan Iqbal Qasim England Alec Stewart
2008 Cricket West Indies Clive Lloyd Australia Greg Chappell South Africa Shaun Pollock Sri Lanka Sidath Wettimuny Bangladesh Athar Ali Khan
2009 Cricket West Indies Clive Lloyd India Anil Kumble Pakistan Mudassar Nazar New Zealand Stephen Fleming England Bob Taylor
2010 Cricket West Indies Clive Lloyd England Angus Fraser Zimbabwe Duncan Fletcher Australia Matthew Hayden India Ravi Shastri
2011 Cricket West Indies Clive Lloyd South Africa Paul Adams Pakistan Zaheer Abbas New Zealand Danny Morrison England Mike Gatting
2012 Cricket West Indies Clive Lloyd Sri Lanka Marvan Atapattu Australia Tom Moody Cricket West Indies Carl Hooper England Clare Connor
2013 India Anil Kumble England Alec Stewart New Zealand Catherine Campbell Pakistan Waqar Younis South Africa Graeme Pollock
2014 India Anil Kumble England Jonathan Agnew Sri Lanka Russel Arnold New Zealand Stephen Fleming Netherlands Betty Timmer
2015 India Anil Kumble Cricket West Indies Ian Bishop England Mark Butcher Australia Belinda Clark India Gundappa Viswanath

The final selection for the award is voted for by an academy of 56 (expanded from 50 in 2004–05), which includes 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, the award is shared.

2004 awards

2005 awards

2006 awards

2007 awards

2008 awards

2009 awards

2010 awards

2011 awards

2012 awards

2013 awards

2014 awards

2015 awards

2016 awards

2017 awards

2018 awards

2019 awards

References

  1. ^ "Live Cricket Scores & News International Cricket Council". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.