• The ICC Awards are an annual set of sports awards in different categories for international cricket.
• Through this award ICC 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.
ICC Men’s awards
ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Virat Kohli
India
2019
Ben Stokes
England
2021
Shaheen Afridi
Pakistan
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
• The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a cricket trophy 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.
• 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”.
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Virat Kohli
India
2019
Pat Cummins
Australia
2021
Joe Root
England
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Virat Kohli
India
2019
Rohit Sharma
India
2021
Babar Azam
Pakistan
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2021
Mohammad Rizwan
Pakistan
ICC Men’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Rishabh Pant
India
2019
Marnus Labuschagne
Australia
2021
Janneman Malan
South Africa
ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Calum MacLeod
Scotland
2019
Kyle Coetzer
Scotland
2021
Zeeshan Maqsood
Oman
Women’s awards
ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Smriti Mandhana
India
2019
Ellyse Perry
Australia
2021
Smriti Mandhana
India
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Smriti Mandhana
India
2019
Ellyse Perry
Australia
2021
Lizelle Lee
South Africa
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Alyssa Healy
Australia
2019
Alyssa Healy
Australia
2021
Tammy Beaumont
England
ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Sophie Ecclestone
England
2019
Chanida Sutthiruang
Thailand
2021
Fatima Sana
Pakistan
ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Andrea-Mae Zepeda
Austria
Mixed awards
ICC Umpire of the Year
Year
Winner
Country
2018
Kumar Dharmasena
Sri Lanka
2019
Richard Illingworth
England
2021
Marais Erasmus
South Africa
Monthly awards
ICC Men’s Player of the Month, for the year 2021
Month
Winner
Country
January
Rishabh Pant
India
February
Ravichandran Ashwin
India
March
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
India
April
Babar Azam
Pakistan
May
Mushfiqur Rahim
Bangladesh
June
Devon Conway
Australia
July
Shakib Al Hasan
Bangladesh
September
Sandeep Lamichhane
Nepal
October
Asif Ali
Pakistan
November
David Warner
Australia
December
Ajaz Patel
Australia
ICC Women’s Player of the Month, for the year 2021
