2018 ICC Awards

2018 ICC Awards
2018 Cricketer of the Year Virat Kohli
Date	22 January 2019
Presented by	ICC
Highlights
Cricketer of the Year	Virat Kohli (2nd award)
Test Player of the Year	Virat Kohli (1st award)
ODI Player of the Year	Virat Kohli (3rd award)
Emerging Player of the Year	Rishabh Pant
Website	www.icc-cricket.com
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The 2018 ICC Awards were the fifteenth edition of ICC Awards. The voting panel took into account players' performance between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. The announcement of the ICC World XI Teams, along with the winners of the men's individual ICC awards, was made on 22 January 2019.^[1] The women's awards were announced on 31 December 2018, with Smriti Mandhana winning the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award as the Women's Cricketer of the Year.^[2] Virat Kohli became the first cricketer in history to win all three major awards.^[3]

Award categories and winners[]

Cricketer of the Year[]

• Virat Kohli

Test Player of the Year[]

• Virat Kohli

ODI Player of the Year[]

• Virat Kohli

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year[]

• Aaron Finch, for scoring 172 runs off 76 deliveries against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club in Harare on 3 July 2018^[4][5]

Emerging Player of the Year[]

• Rishabh Pant

Associate Player of the Year[]

• Calum MacLeod

Umpire of the Year[]

• Kumar Dharmasena

Women's Cricketer of the Year[]

• Smriti Mandhana

Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year[]

• Smriti Mandhana

Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year[]

• Alyssa Healy

Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year[]

• Sophie Ecclestone

Spirit of Cricket[]

• Kane Williamson, for his behavior both on and off the field throughout 2018^[6]

Fan's Moment of the Year[]

• India winning the Under-19 Cricket World Cup

ICC World XI Teams[]

ICC Test Team of the Year[]

Virat Kohli was selected as the captain of the Test Team of the Year, with Rishabh Pant selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

• Tom Latham
• Dimuth Karunaratne
• Kane Williamson
• Virat Kohli
• Henry Nicholls
• Rishabh Pant
• Jason Holder
• Kagiso Rabada
• Nathan Lyon
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Mohammad Abbas

ICC ODI Team of the Year[]

Virat Kohli was also selected as the captain of the ODI Team of the Year, with Jos Buttler selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

• Rohit Sharma
• Jonny Bairstow
• Virat Kohli
• Joe Root
• Ross Taylor
• Jos Buttler
• Ben Stokes
• Mustafizur Rahman
• Kuldeep Yadav
• Rashid Khan
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Shikhar Dhawan (12th man)

ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year[]

Suzie Bates was selected as the captain of the Women's ODI Team of the Year, with Alyssa Healy selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

• Smriti Mandhana
• Tammy Beaumont
• Suzie Bates
• Dane van Niekerk
• Sophie Devine
• Alyssa Healy
• Marizanne Kapp
• Deandra Dottin
• Sana Mir
• Sophie Ecclestone
• Poonam Yadav

ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year[]

Harmanpreet Kaur was selected as the captain of the Women's T20I Team of the Year, with Alyssa Healy also selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

• Smriti Mandhana
• Alyssa Healy
• Suzie Bates
• Harmanpreet Kaur
• Natalie Sciver
• Ellyse Perry
• Ashleigh Gardner
• Leigh Kasperek
• Megan Schutt
• Rumana Ahmed
• Poonam Yadav

See also[]

• International Cricket Council
• ICC Awards
• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Cricketer of the Year)
• ICC Test Player of the Year
• ICC ODI Player of the Year
• David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
• ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Test Team of the Year
• ICC ODI Team of the Year

References[]