ICC Awards

ICC Awards
Current: 2021 ICC Awards
Awarded for	International cricket, to recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months
Presented by	ICC
First awarded	7 September 2004 (2004-09-07)
Website	icc-cricket.com

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.^[1]

Men's awards[]

ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2004	Rahul Dravid
2005	Jacques Kallis Andrew Flintoff
2006	Ricky Ponting
2007	Ricky Ponting
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	Virat Kohli
2019	Ben Stokes
2021	Shaheen Afridi

ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
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	Ravichandran Ashwin
2017	Steve Smith
2018	Virat Kohli
2019	Pat Cummins
2021	Joe Root

ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2004	Andrew Flintoff
2005	Kevin Pietersen
2006	Michael Hussey
2007	Matthew Hayden
2008	MS Dhoni
2009	MS Dhoni
2010	AB de Villiers
2011	Kumar Sangakkara
2012	Virat Kohli
2013	Kumar Sangakkara
2014	AB de Villiers
2015	AB de Villiers
2016	Quinton de Kock
2017	Virat Kohli
2018	Virat Kohli
2019	Rohit Sharma
2021	Babar Azam

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2021	Mohammad Rizwan

ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
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

ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2007	Thomas Odoyo
2008	Ryan ten Doeschate
2009	William Porterfield
2010	Ryan ten Doeschate
2011	Ryan ten Doeschate
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

ICC Men's Test Team of the Year[]

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	No. 11	12th man
2004[2]	Matthew Hayden	Herschelle Gibbs	Ricky Ponting (c)	Rahul Dravid	Brian Lara	Jacques Kallis	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Chaminda Vaas	Shane Warne	Jason Gillespie	Steve Harmison
2005[3]	Virender Sehwag	Graeme Smith	Ricky Ponting (c)	Jacques Kallis	Brian Lara	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Shane Warne	Chaminda Vaas	Glenn McGrath	Anil Kumble
2006[4]	Matthew Hayden	Michael Hussey	Ricky Ponting	Rahul Dravid (c)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Andrew Flintoff	Shane Warne	Makhaya Ntini	Muttiah Muralitharan	Glenn McGrath	Brett Lee
2007[5]	Matthew Hayden	Michael Vaughan	Ricky Ponting (c)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kevin Pietersen	Michael Hussey	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Stuart Clark	Makhaya Ntini	Mohammad Asif	Muttiah Muralitharan	Zaheer Khan
2008[6]	Graeme Smith (c)	Virender Sehwag	Mahela Jayawardene	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Kevin Pietersen	Jacques Kallis	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Brett Lee	Ryan Sidebottom	Dale Steyn	Muttiah Muralitharan	Stuart Clark
2009[7]	Gautam Gambhir	Andrew Strauss	AB de Villiers	Sachin Tendulkar	Thilan Samaraweera	Michael Clarke	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Shakib Al Hasan	Mitchell Johnson	Stuart Broad	Dale Steyn	Harbhajan Singh
2010[8][9]	Virender Sehwag	Simon Katich	Sachin Tendulkar	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	Jacques Kallis	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Graeme Swann	James Anderson	Dale Steyn	Doug Bollinger
2011[10]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla	Jonathan Trott	Sachin Tendulkar	Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk)	AB de Villiers	Jacques Kallis	Stuart Broad	Graeme Swann	Dale Steyn	James Anderson	Zaheer Khan
2012[11]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	Jacques Kallis	Michael Clarke (c)	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Matt Prior (wk)	Stuart Broad	Saeed Ajmal	Vernon Philander	Dale Steyn	AB de Villiers
2013[12]	Alastair Cook (c)	Cheteshwar Pujara	Hashim Amla	Michael Clarke	Michael Hussey	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (wk)	Graeme Swann	Dale Steyn	James Anderson	Vernon Philander	Ravichandran Ashwin
2014[13][14]	David Warner	Kane Williamson	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers (wk)	Joe Root	Angelo Mathews (c)	Mitchell Johnson	Stuart Broad	Dale Steyn	Rangana Herath	Tim Southee	Ross Taylor
2015[15]	David Warner	Alastair Cook (c)	Kane Williamson	Younis Khan	Steve Smith	Joe Root	Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)	Stuart Broad	Trent Boult	Yasir Shah	Josh Hazlewood	Ravichandran Ashwin
2016[16]	David Warner	Alastair Cook (c)	Kane Williamson	Joe Root	Adam Voges	Jonny Bairstow (wk)	Ben Stokes	Ravichandran Ashwin	Rangana Herath	Mitchell Starc	Dale Steyn	Steve Smith
2017[17]	Dean Elgar	David Warner	Virat Kohli (c)	Steve Smith	Cheteshwar Pujara	Ben Stokes	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin	Mitchell Starc	Kagiso Rabada	James Anderson
2018[18]	Tom Latham	Dimuth Karunaratne	Kane Williamson	Virat Kohli (c)	Henry Nicholls	Rishabh Pant (wk)	Jason Holder	Kagiso Rabada	Nathan Lyon	Jasprit Bumrah	Mohammad Abbas
2019[19]	Mayank Agarwal	Tom Latham	Marnus Labuschagne	Virat Kohli (c)	Steve Smith	Ben Stokes	BJ Watling (wk)	Pat Cummins	Mitchell Starc	Neil Wagner	Nathan Lyon
2021[20]	Dimuth Karunaratne	Rohit Sharma	Marnus Labuschagne	Joe Root)	Kane Williamson(c)	Fawad Alam	Rishabh Pant (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin	Kyle Jamieson	Hasan Ali	Shaheen Afridi

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year[]

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	No. 11	12th man
2004[21]	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Sachin Tendulkar	Chris Gayle	Ricky Ponting (c)	Brian Lara	Virender Sehwag	Jacques Kallis	Andrew Flintoff	Shaun Pollock	Chaminda Vaas	Jason Gillespie
2005[3]	Marvan Atapattu (c)	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Rahul Dravid	Kevin Pietersen	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Andrew Symonds	Daniel Vettori	Brett Lee	Naved-ul-Hasan	Glenn McGrath	Jacques Kallis
2006[22]	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	MS Dhoni	Ricky Ponting	Mahela Jayawardene (c)	Yuvraj Singh	Michael Hussey	Andrew Flintoff	Irfan Pathan	Brett Lee	Shane Bond	Muttiah Muralitharan	Andrew Symonds
2007[23]	Matthew Hayden	Sachin Tendulkar	Ricky Ponting (c)	Kevin Pietersen	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Jacques Kallis	Mark Boucher (wk)	Chaminda Vaas	Shane Bond	Muttiah Muralitharan	Glenn McGrath	Michael Hussey
2008[6]	Herschelle Gibbs	Sachin Tendulkar	Ricky Ponting (c)	Younis Khan	Andrew Symonds	MS Dhoni (wk)	Farveez Maharoof	Daniel Vettori	Brett Lee	Mitchell Johnson	Nathan Bracken	Salman Butt
2009[24]	Virender Sehwag	Chris Gayle	Kevin Pietersen	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Yuvraj Singh	Martin Guptill	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Andrew Flintoff	Nuwan Kulasekara	Ajantha Mendis	Umar Gul	Thilan Thushara
2010[25]	Sachin Tendulkar	Shane Watson	Michael Hussey	AB de Villiers	Paul Collingwood	Ricky Ponting (c)	MS Dhoni (wk)	Daniel Vettori	Stuart Broad	Doug Bollinger	Ryan Harris
2011[26][27]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Virender Sehwag	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers	Shane Watson	Yuvraj Singh	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Graeme Swann	Umar Gul	Dale Steyn	Zaheer Khan	Lasith Malinga
2012[28]	Gautam Gambhir	Alastair Cook	Kumar Sangakkara	Virat Kohli	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Michael Clarke	Shahid Afridi	Morné Morkel	Steven Finn	Lasith Malinga	Saeed Ajmal	Shane Watson
2013[12]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Shikhar Dhawan	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Ravindra Jadeja	Saeed Ajmal	Mitchell Starc	James Anderson	Lasith Malinga	Mitchell McClenaghan
2014[13]	Mohammad Hafeez	Quinton de Kock	Virat Kohli	George Bailey	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Dwayne Bravo	James Faulkner	Dale Steyn	Mohammed Shami	Ajantha Mendis	Rohit Sharma
2015[15]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	AB de Villiers (c)	Steve Smith	Ross Taylor	Trent Boult	Mohammed Shami	Mitchell Starc	Mustafizur Rahman	Imran Tahir	Joe Root
2016[29]	David Warner	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Rohit Sharma	Virat Kohli (c)	AB de Villiers	Jos Buttler	Mitchell Marsh	Ravindra Jadeja	Mitchell Starc	Kagiso Rabada	Sunil Narine	Imran Tahir
2017[17][30]	David Warner	Rohit Sharma	Virat Kohli (c)	Babar Azam	AB de Villiers	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Ben Stokes	Trent Boult	Hasan Ali	Rashid Khan	Jasprit Bumrah
2018[31][32]	Rohit Sharma	Jonny Bairstow	Virat Kohli (c)	Joe Root	Ross Taylor	Jos Buttler (wk)	Ben Stokes	Mustafizur Rahman	Rashid Khan	Kuldeep Yadav	Jasprit Bumrah
2019[19][33]	Rohit Sharma	Shai Hope	Virat Kohli (c)	Babar Azam	Kane Williamson	Ben Stokes	Jos Buttler (wk)	Mitchell Starc	Trent Boult	Mohammed Shami	Kuldeep Yadav
2021[34][35]	Paul Stirling	Janneman Malan	Babar Azam (c)	Fakhar Zaman	Rassie van der Dussen	Shakib Al Hasan	Mushfiqur Rahim (wk)	Wanindu Hasaranga	Mustafizur Rahman	Simi Singh	Dushmantha Chameera

ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year[]

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	No. 11	12th man
2021[36]	Jos Buttler	Mohammad Rizwan (wk)	Babar Azam (c)	Aiden Markram	Mitchell Marsh	David Miller	Tabraiz Shamsi	Josh Hazlewood	Wanindu Hasaranga	Mustafizur Rahman	Shaheen Afridi

Women's awards[]

ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
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

ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
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

ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2012	Sarah Taylor
2013	Sarah Taylor
2014	Meg Lanning
2015	Stafanie Taylor
2016	Suzie Bates
2017	Beth Mooney
2018	Alyssa Healy
2019	Alyssa Healy
2021	Tammy Beaumont

ICC Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2017	Beth Mooney
2018	Sophie Ecclestone
2019	Chanida Sutthiruang
2021	Fatima Sana

ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2021	Andrea-Mae Zepeda

ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year[]

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
2017[37]	Tammy Beaumont	Meg Lanning	Mithali Raj	Amy Satterthwaite	Ellyse Perry	Heather Knight (c)	Sarah Taylor (wk)	Dane van Niekerk	Marizanne Kapp	Ekta Bisht	Alex Hartley
2018[38]	Smriti Mandhana	Tammy Beaumont	Suzie Bates (c)	Dane van Niekerk	Sophie Devine	Alyssa Healy (wk)	Marizanne Kapp	Deandra Dottin	Sana Mir	Sophie Ecclestone	Poonam Yadav
2019[39]	Alyssa Healy (wk)	Smriti Mandhana	Tammy Beaumont	Meg Lanning (c)	Stafanie Taylor	Ellyse Perry	Jess Jonassen	Shikha Pandey	Jhulan Goswami	Megan Schutt	Poonam Yadav
2021[40]	Lizelle Lee	Alyssa Healy(wk)	Tammy Beaumont	Mithali Raj	Heather Knight (c)	Hayley Matthews	Marizanne Kapp	Shabnim Ismail	Fatima Sana	Jhulan Goswami

ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year[]

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
2017[37]	Danielle Wyatt	Beth Mooney (wk)	Harmanpreet Kaur	Sophie Devine	Stafanie Taylor (c)	Deandra Dottin	Hayley Matthews	Megan Schutt	Amanda-Jade Wellington	Lea Tahuhu	Ekta Bisht
2018[38]	Smriti Mandhana	Alyssa Healy (wk)	Suzie Bates	Harmanpreet Kaur (c)	Natalie Sciver	Ellyse Perry	Ashleigh Gardner	Leigh Kasperek	Megan Schutt	Rumana Ahmed	Poonam Yadav
2019[39]	Alyssa Healy (wk)	Danielle Wyatt	Smriti Mandhana	Meg Lanning (c)	Lizelle Lee	Ellyse Perry	Deepti Sharma	Nida Dar	Shabnim Ismail	Megan Schutt	Radha Yadav
2021[41]	Smriti Mandhana	Tammy Beaumont	Danielle Wyatt	Gaby Lewis	Natalie Sciver (c)	Amy Jones(wk)	Laura Wolvaardt	Marizanne Kapp	Sophie Ecclestone	Loryn Phiri	Shabnim Ismail

Mixed awards[]

ICC Umpire of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2004	Simon Taufel
2005	Simon Taufel
2006	Simon Taufel
2007	Simon Taufel
2008	Simon Taufel
2009	Aleem Dar
2010	Aleem Dar
2011	Aleem Dar
2012	Kumar Dharmasena
2013	Richard Kettleborough
2014	Richard Kettleborough
2015	Richard Kettleborough
2016	Marais Erasmus
2017	Marais Erasmus
2018	Kumar Dharmasena
2019	Richard Illingworth
2021[42]	Marais Erasmus

ICC 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

Teams

Year	Winner
2004	New Zealand
2005	England
2006	England
2007	Sri Lanka
2008	Sri Lanka
2009	New Zealand
2010	New Zealand

Players

Year	Winner
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

Defunct awards[]

ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year[]

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
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

Captain of the Year[]

Year	Player
2006	Mahela Jayawardene
2007	Ricky Ponting

Team of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2010[43]	Format
	Test	ODI
	India	Australia

Women's Team of the Year[]

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
2016[44]	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

LG People's Choice Award[]

Year	Winner
2010	Sachin Tendulkar
2011	Kumar Sangakkara
2012	Kumar Sangakkara
2013	MS Dhoni
2014	Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Fan's Moment of the Year[]

Year	Winner
2017	Pakistan stun  India to win by 180 runs in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy Final
2018	India winning the Under-19 Cricket World Cup

Monthly awards[]

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.^[45][46]

ICC Men's Player of the Month[]

Year	Month	Winner
2021	January	Rishabh Pant
	February	Ravichandran Ashwin
	March	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
	April	Babar Azam
	May	Mushfiqur Rahim
	June	Devon Conway
	July	Shakib Al Hasan
	September	Sandeep Lamichhane
	October	Asif Ali
	November	David Warner
	December	Ajaz Patel

ICC Women's Player of the Month[]

Year	Month	Winner
2021	January	Shabnim Ismail
	February	Tammy Beaumont
	March	Lizelle Lee
	April	Alyssa Healy
	May	Kathryn Bryce
	June	Sophie Ecclestone
	July	Stafanie Taylor
	August	Eimear Richardson
	September	Heather Knight
	October	Laura Delany
	November	Hayley Matthews

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.^[47]

Past methodology[]

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
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	Sunil Gavaskar	Allan Donald	Ian Healy	Arjuna Ranatunga	Waqar Younis
2007	Sunil Gavaskar	Chris Cairns	Gary Kirsten	Iqbal Qasim	Alec Stewart
2008	Clive Lloyd	Greg Chappell	Shaun Pollock	Sidath Wettimuny	Athar Ali Khan
2009	Clive Lloyd	Anil Kumble	Mudassar Nazar	Stephen Fleming	Bob Taylor
2010	Clive Lloyd	Angus Fraser	Duncan Fletcher	Matthew Hayden	Ravi Shastri
2011	Clive Lloyd	Paul Adams	Zaheer Abbas	Danny Morrison	Mike Gatting
2012	Clive Lloyd	Marvan Atapattu	Tom Moody	Carl Hooper	Clare Connor
2013	Anil Kumble	Alec Stewart	Catherine Campbell	Waqar Younis	Graeme Pollock
2014	Anil Kumble	Jonathan Agnew	Russel Arnold	Stephen Fleming	Betty Timmer
2015	Anil Kumble	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.

Awards by year[]

• 2004 ICC Awards
• 2005 ICC Awards
• 2006 ICC Awards
• 2007 ICC Awards
• 2008 ICC Awards
• 2009 ICC Awards
• 2010 ICC Awards
• 2011 ICC Awards
• 2012 ICC Awards
• 2013 ICC Awards
• 2014 ICC Awards
• 2015 ICC Awards
• 2016 ICC Awards
• 2017 ICC Awards
• 2018 ICC Awards
• 2019 ICC Awards
• ICC Awards of the Decade
• 2021 ICC Awards

References[]