The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a Cricket trophy that 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".Inauguration of ICC Test Player of the Year trophy
Selection The recipient of the annual award is selected by an "academy" of 56 individuals (expanded from 50 in 2004), including the current national team captains of the Test-playing nations (10), members of the elite panel of ICC umpires and referees (18), and certain prominent former players and cricket correspondents (28). In the event of a tie in the voting, the award is shared.
List of winners + Key § Indicates individual was shortlisted Year Image Winner Team Nominees Notes Ref(s) 2004 Also named Test Player of the Year 2005 Also named Test Player of the Year and selected as 12th man for the ODI Team of the Year Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2006 Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2007 Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2008 Also named in the Test Team of the Year 2009 Also named in the Test Team of the Year 2010 Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2011 Also named in the Test Team of the Year 2012 Also named Test Player of the Year, named People's Choice Award, named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2013 Also named Test Player of the Year 2014 Also named Test Player of the Year 2015 Also named Test Player of the Year and named in the ODI Team of the Year 2016 Also named Test Player of the Year 2017 Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year 2018 Also named Test Player of the Year, named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year 2019 Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year 2021 Also named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year 2022 Also named in the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year 2023 Pat Cummins Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year 2024 Jasprit Bumrah Also named the Test Cricketer of the Year, and named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year
Superlatives Wins by player Player Winner Ricky Ponting 2 (2006, 2007) Mitchell Johnson 2 (2009, 2014) Virat Kohli 2 (2017, 2018) Rahul Dravid 1 (2004) Jacques Kallis 1 (2005) Andrew Flintoff 1 (2005) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 1 (2008) Sachin Tendulkar 1 (2010) Jonathan Trott 1 (2011) Kumar Sangakkara 1 (2012) Michael Clarke 1 (2013) Steve Smith 1 (2015) Ravichandran Ashwin 1 (2016) Ben Stokes 1 (2019) Shaheen Afridi 1 (2021) Babar Azam 1 (2022) Pat Cummins 1 (2023) Jasprit Bumrah 1 (2024)
Wins by country Country Players Total 5 7 5 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
See also ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year ICC Test Player of the Year ICC ODI Player of the Year
References
External links ICC Awards