Steve Smith and Beth Mooney have been named Australia’s males’s and ladies’s cricketers of the 12 months on the Australian Cricket Awards.
Smith collected his fourth Allan Border Medal, offered to the perfect male cricketer, on Monday evening to hitch Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in profitable the award 4 occasions.
After 3-2-1 votes from gamers, umpires and media have been tallied, Smith (171 votes) comfortably beat out second-placed Travis Head (144) and David Warner (141) in third.
Despite falling out of favour within the T20I set-up, Smith sealed the medal with a tally of 1547 runs this season throughout all codecs at a median of 55.3.
Smith reaped the rewards of a year-long course of to revamp his batting approach and initially of the house summer season, mentioned he felt essentially the most comfy on the crease that he had in six years.
He went on to make an unbeaten 200 runs towards West Indies, his highest Test rating since 2019, and backed it up with 104 runs in his dwelling Test on the SCG towards South Africa. At Test stage, Smith has averaged 71.92 prior to now 12 months.
For the second time, batter Mooney obtained the Belinda Clark Award as Australia’s finest feminine cricketer after polling 129 votes.
Meg Lanning completed second within the tally with 110 votes, regardless of an prolonged go away of absence, and allrounder Tahlia McGrath positioned third with 95.
Averaging 100.75 throughout 10 ODIs final 12 months, Mooney was a vital member of Australia’s gold medal-winning Commonwealth Games marketing campaign and their triumph on the ODI World Cup marketing campaign, the place she was named within the crew of the event.
Mooney was additionally named Women’s ODI Player Of The Year and in her most up-to-date ODI, posted a career-high 133 runs to assist Australia full a clear sweep of the house sequence towards Pakistan.
As a part of the ceremony at Royal Randwick Racecourse, Test revenant Usman Khawaja was named the inaugural Shane Warne Men’s Test Player Of The Year for his consistency with the bat domestically and overseas.
After breaking again into the facet final summer season, Khawaja cemented his spot within the Australian crew as essentially the most spectacular batter on the Test tour of Pakistan. He set a brand new private finest in his most up-to-date Test, managing an unbeaten 195 towards South Africa on the SCG.
David Warner was named the ODI Player Of The Year, with Adam Zampa ignored for nomination regardless of being chosen within the ICC’s ODI Team Of The Year.
CRICKET AUSTRALIA AWARDS WINNERS:
Belinda Clark Award – Beth Mooney (129 votes)
2nd : Meg Lanning (110 votes)
third : Tahlia McGrath (95 votes)
Allan Border Medal – Steve Smith (171 votes)
Travis Head (144 votes)
David Warner (141 votes)
Women’s ODI Player of the Year – Beth Mooney
Women’s T20I Player of the Year – Tahlia McGrath
Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year – Usman Khawaja
Men’s ODI Player of the Year – David Warner
Men’s T20I Player of the Year – Marcus Stoinis
Women’s Domestic Player of the Year – Annabel Sutherland
Men’s Domestic Player of the Year – Michael Neser
Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year – Courtney Seppel
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year – Lance Morris
Community Champion Award – Usman Khawaja
Woolworths Cricket Blaster of the Year – Mabel Tovey
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees – Marg Jennings and Ian Redpath.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
