ICC Awards

ICC Awards
Current: 2022 ICC Awards
Awarded for International Cricket, to recognize and honour the best international Cricket players of the previous 12 months
Presented by ICC
First awarded 7 September 2004
Most awards Men's: Virat Kohli (8 awards)
Women's: Ellyse Perry (6 awards)
Website ICC Awards

The ICC Awards are an annual set of sports awards for International Cricket, which recognize and honor 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.Virat Kohli has been the most frequent winner with 8 awards, including the player of decade.[1]

Men's awards

ICC Men's Player Of The Year

Year Winner
2004 Rahul Dravid
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 Shah Afridi
2022 Babar Azam

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 Ravi Ashwin
2017 Steve Smith
2018 Virat Kohli
2019 Pat Cummins
2021 Joe Root
2022 Ben Stokes

ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year

Year Winner
2004 Andrew Flintoff
2005 Kevin Pietersen
2006 Michael Hussey
2007 Mathew 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
2022 Babar Azam

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year

Year Winner
2021 Mohammad Rizwan
2022 Suryakumar Yadav

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
2022 Marco Jansen

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
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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Dimuth Karunaratne Rohit Sharma Marnus Labuschagne Joe Root Kane Williamson(c) Fawad Alam Rishabh Pant (wk) Ravichandran Ashwin Kyle Jamieson Hasan Ali Shaheen Afridi
2022 Usman Khawaja Kraigg Brathwaite Marnus Labuschagne Babar Azam Jonny Bairstow Ben Stokes (c) Rishabh Pant (wk) Pat Cummins Kagiso Rabada Nathan Lyon James Anderson

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
2022 Babar Azam(c) Travis Head Shai Hope Shreyas Iyer Tom Latham(wk) Sikandar Raza Mehidy Hasan Alzarri Joseph Mohammed Siraj Trent Boult Adam Zampa

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 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 Jos Buttler (c) (wk) Mohammad Rizwan Virat Kohli Suryakumar Yadav Glenn Phillips Sikandar Raza Hardik Pandya Sam Curran Wanindu Hasaranga Haris Rauf Josh Little

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
2022 Nat Sciver

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
2022 Nat Sciver

ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year

Year Winner
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

ICC Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year

Year Winner
2017 Beth Mooney
2018 Sophie Ecclestone
2019 Chanida Sutthiruang
2021 Fatima Sana
2022 Renuka Singh

ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Year

Year Winner
2021 Andrea-Mae Zepeda
2022 Esha Oza

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 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 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 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 Lizelle Lee Alyssa Healy(wk) Tammy Beaumont Mithali Raj Heather Knight (c) Hayley Matthews Marizanne Kapp Shabnim Ismail Fatima Sana Jhulan Goswami Anisa Mohammed
2022 Alyssa Healy (wk) Smriti Mandhana Laura Wolvaardt Nat Sciver Beth Mooney Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Amelia Kerr Sophie Ecclestone Ayabonga Khaka Renuka Singh Shabnim Ismail

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 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 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 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 Smriti Mandhana Tammy Beaumont Danielle Wyatt Gaby Lewis Natalie Sciver (c) Amy Jones(wk) Laura Wolvaardt Marizanne Kapp Sophie Ecclestone Loryn Phiri Shabnim Ismail
2022 Smriti Mandhana Beth Mooney Sophie Devine (c) Ash Gardner Tahila McGrath Nida Dar Deepti Sharma Richa Ghosh(wk) Sophie Ecclestone Inoka Ranaweera Renuka Singh

Mixed awards

ICC Umpire of the Year

Year Winner
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 Marais Erasmus
2022 Richard Illingworth

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
2007 Sri Lanka
2008
2009 New Zealand
2010

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
2021 Daryl Mitchell
2022 Aasif Sheikh

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 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 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
2013 MS Dhoni
2014 Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Fan's Moment of the Year

Year Winner
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.

ICC Men's Player of the Month

Year Month
January February March April May June July August September October November December
2021 Rishabh Pant Ravichandran Ashwin Bhuvneshwar Kumar Babar Azam Mushfiqur Rahim Devon Conway Shakib Al Hasan Joe Root Sandeep Lamichhane Asif Ali David Warner Ajaz Patel
2022 Keegan Petersen Shreyas Iyer Babar Azam Keshav Maharaj Angelo Mathews Jonny Bairstow Prabath Jayasuriya Sikandar Raza Mohammad Rizwan Virat Kohli Jos Buttler Harry Brook
2023 Shubman Gill Harry Brook Shakib Al Hasan Fakhar Zaman Harry Tector Wanindu Hasaranga Chris Woakes Babar Azam Shubman Gill Rachin Ravindra Travis Head

ICC Women's Player of the Month

Year Month
January February March April May June July August September October November December
2021 Shabnim Ismail Tammy Beaumont Lizelle Lee Alyssa Healy Kathryn Bryce Sophie Ecclestone Stafanie Taylor Eimear Richardson Heather Knight Laura Delany Hayley Matthews No award
2022 Heather Knight Amelia Kerr Rachael Haynes Alyssa Healy Tuba Hassan Marizanne Kapp Emma Lamb Tahlia McGrath Harmanpreet Kaur Nida Dar Sidra Ameen Ashleigh Gardner
2023 Grace Scrivens Ashleigh Gardner Henriette Ishimwe Naruemol Chaiwai Thipatcha Putthawong Ashleigh Gardner Arlene Kelly Chamari Athapaththu Hayley Matthews Nahida Akter

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.

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 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.

Awards by year