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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

International Cricket Council (ICC) Names Steve Smith as Test cricketer of year, AB de Villiers in ODI

 Steve Smith Named Cricketer of the Year and the Test Cricketer of the Year 2015 by ICC



Steven Smith won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy and also named as the year’s best Test player, while South Africa ODI captain AB de Villiers was named 2015’s one-day international player of the year.

Steve Smith became the fourth Australian and 11th overall to win the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2015.

Smith follows in the footsteps of Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Mitchell Johnson (2009 and 2014) and Michael Clarke (2013) to lift the coveted trophy since the inception of the awards in 2004.

Other recipients of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy include Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis (joint-winners in 2005), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Jonathan Trott (2011) and Kumar Sangakkara (2012), the ICC said in a statement.

Steve Smith was also adjudged the Test Cricketer of the Year, which has made him only the seventh cricketer after Dravid (2004), Kallis (2005), Ponting (2006), Sangakkara (2012), Clarke (2013) and Johnson (2014) to bag the two coveted prizes in the same year

During the voting period, which ran from September 18 2014 to September 13 2015, the 26-year-old Smith finished as the leading run-scorer in Tests with 1,734 runs in 13 matches at an average of 82.57


South Africa's ODI captain AB de Villiers was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year for the second time in a row.

AB De Villiers Named  ODI Cricketer of the Year 2015 by ICC


 
AB De Villiers, meanwhile, had also won this award in 2010. In the voting period, de Villiers scored 1,265 runs in 20 innings at an average of just over 79 and a strike-rate of 128.4.

AB De Villiers hit two centuries and nine half-centuries. Earlier this month, de Villiers was named as the captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year

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