Australian skipper Pat Cummins had a fantastic year by winning the 2023 WTC finals, retaining the 2023 Ashes trophy and also lifting the 2023 World Cup has been named as ICC men's cricketer of the year award in 2023. Here, in this article, we will have a look at a list of ICC men's Cricketer of the Year award winners starting from 2004.
ICC men's cricketer of the year:
- 2004 - Rahul Dravid
- 2005 - Jacques Kallis/Andrew Flintoff
- 2006 - Ricky Ponting
- 2007 - Ricky Ponting
- 2008 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- 2009 - Mitchell Johnson
- 2010 - Sachin Tendulkar
- 2011 - Jonathan Trott
- 2012 - Kumar Sangakkara
- 2013 - Michael Clarke
- 2014 - Mitchell Johnson
- 2015 - Steven Smith
- 2016 - Ravichandran Ashwin
- 2017 - Virat Kohli
- 2018 - Virat Kohli
- 2019 - Ben Stokes
- 2021 - Shaheen Afridi
- 2022 - Babar Azam
- 2023 - Pat Cummins
Australians winning ICC men's cricketer of the year award:
- Ricky Ponting - 2 times (2006, 2007)
- Mitchell Johnson - 2 times (2009, 2014)
- Michael Clarke - 1 time (2013)
- Steven Smith - 1 time (2015)
- Pat Cummins - 1 time (2023)
Pat Cummins became the fifth Australian player to win the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year award. He has taken a total of 59 wickets in 2023 International cricket from just 32 innings (24 matches).
