Pakistan captain Babar Azam has been named the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, while Ben Stokes landed the Test Cricketer of the Year award.
Babar was outstanding with the bat in 2022, scoring 2,598 runs in 44 matches at an average of 54.12 and raking up eight centuries.
The prolific right-hander was the only player to reach the 2,000 landmark in the calendar year across all formats and led his side to the T20 World Cup final, which they lost against England at the MCG in November.
It was the most successful year of Babar’s career, earning him the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. Babar was also named the Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Stokes also enjoyed a year that he will never forget, making a huge impact after being appointed as England Test captain.
The all-rounder could not have wished for a better start to a new era with him as skipper and Brendon McCullum head coach, turning England’s fortunes around with an incredible transformation in a short space of time.
England had won only one of 17 Tests when Joe Root stepped down, but secured series wins over New Zealand and South Africa, beat India in a rearranged Test and celebrated an unprecedented 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan away from home.
Stokes led the side brilliantly as an aggressive brand of cricket paid dividends, while the all-rounder produced another match-winning innings to seal a victory over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final.
He scored 870 runs at an average of 36.25 last year and took 26 wickets at an average of 31.19.
India run machine Suryakumar Yadav is the Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, having scored 1,164 runs in 31 matches at an average of 46.56 and a strike-rate of 187.43.
Nat Sciver also starred for England in 2022 and was on Thursday named as the winner of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year.
All-rounder Sciver scored 1,346 runs and claimed 22 wickets from 33 international matches, starring as England were runners-up in the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022,
Sciver made a magnificent unbeaten 148 from only 121 in a defeat against Australia in the final.
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