Steve Smith nonetheless believes he has room to enhance his sport on the highest stage, even after profitable a record-equalling fourth Allan Border Medal,
Smith took out the award for males’s cricketer of the yr on the Australian Cricket Awards on Monday night time. Batter Beth Mooney claimed the Belinda Clark Award as finest ladies’s participant.
Once 3-2-1 votes from gamers, umpires and media have been tallied, Smith (171 votes) comfortably beat out Travis Head (144) and David Warner (141) to equal Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke for many wins.
The award got here because the fruits of Smith’s choice to recalibrate his batting approach, an overhaul he started contemplating as early as 2019.
Smith reaped the rewards in the course of the residence Test summer time, making an unbeaten 200 in opposition to West Indies, his highest Test rating in three years. He backed it up with 104 in his residence Test on the SCG in opposition to South Africa and has averaged 71.92 in Test matches prior to now 12 months.
But Smith stated he wasn’t content material to cease there.
“I hope there’s more to come,” he instructed reporters.
“That’s what I strive for every day, to be the best player that I can be.
“I made some changes within the final six months. It took me some time to do, I needed to work by just a few issues.
“It’s started to work well for me. Hopefully I can just keep getting better and better.”
Mooney polled 129 votes to obtain the Belinda Clark Award for the second time.
Meg Lanning completed second within the tally with 110 votes, regardless of an prolonged depart of absence, and allrounder Tahlia McGrath positioned third with 95.
Averaging 100.75 throughout 10 ODIs final yr, 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 staff of the match.
Mooney was additionally named Women’s ODI Player Of The Year having posted a career-high 133 in her most up-to-date ODI to assist Australia full a clear sweep of the house collection in opposition to Pakistan.
Her stellar yr got here after struggling a nasty nets harm that threw her Ashes and ODI World Cup campaigns into doubt final summer time.
Mooney’s harm required surgical procedure to insert three steel plates into her face and compelled her to undertake a liquid food plan however miraculously, she bounced again to play within the Ashes solely days later.
“You don’t play the game of cricket to win these awards or for personal accolades, you play for team success, and we certainly had a whole bunch of that this year, which was amazing to be a part of,” Mooney stated.
“Given at the start of (the year), I didn’t think I was going to be playing too much after that incident.”
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.
David Warner was named the Men’s ODI Player Of The Year, with Adam Zampa ignored for nomination regardless of being chosen within the ICC’s ODI Team Of The Year. Marcus Stoinis took Men’s T20I Player Of The Year
CRICKET AUSTRALIA AWARDS WINNERS:
Belinda Clark Award – Beth Mooney (129 votes)
2nd : Meg Lanning (110)
third : Tahlia McGrath (95)
Allan Border Medal – Steve Smith (171 votes)
2nd : Travis Head (144)
third : David Warner (141)
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
