Cricket NSW stars earn 2023 ICC Awards nominations

Sydney Sixers skipper Ellyse Perry and Sydney Thunder players Chamari Athapaththu and Lauren Bell have also made the short lists.

The ICC this week revealed the finalists in nine ICC Awards categories and fans are now able to vote for their top performers in selected ICC Awards categories here.

Cummins is nominated for the most prestigious men’s award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, alongside Australian teammate Travis Head, Ravindra Jadeja (India) and Virat Kohli (India).

Australia and India share two candidates each in the main men’s category after a year in which they met in both the ICC World Test Championship Final and the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Final.

Cummins lifted the silverware on both of those occasions, and the Australia skipper is nominated in the top men’s category following a landmark year. Cummins, a former ICC Test Cricketer of the Year (2019), hit new heights in 2023, showcasing outstanding captaincy skills and also dazzling with ball in hand, taking 59 wickets in Tests and ODIs. 

Gardner is in line to win the major women’s award, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, where she is up against 2022 winner Nat Sciver-Brunt, fellow Australian Beth Mooney and Sri Lankan and Sydney Thunder star Athapaththu. She is also in contention to take out the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.

The Sixers star took more wickets than anyone else in women’s internationals in 2023, taking 58 wickets in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. Beyond the statistics, Gardner also won the Player of the Tournament award at the record-breaking ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for her all-round brilliance, and became the first player to win back-to-back ICC Women’s Player of the Month prizes in June and July.

Athapaththu has also had a great year across both white ball formats and is a finalist in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year and ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year categories.

Perry is a finalist in the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, while Thunder teammates Litchfield and Bell have been named as contenders for the ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year.

Winners of the ICC Awards 2023 will be announced later in January 2024.

ICC Awards 2023 – Shortlists

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Pat Cummins (Australia), Travis Head (Australia), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Virat Kohli (India)

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Beth Mooney (Australia), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)

ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year; R Ashwin (India), Travis Head (Australia), Usman Khawaja (Australia), Joe Root (England)

ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Shubman Gill (India), Virat Kohli (India), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Mohammed Shami (India)

ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)

ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Suryakumar Yadav (India)

ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia)

ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Gerald Coetzee (South Africa), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka), Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)

ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Marufa Akter (Bangladesh), Lauren Bell (England), Darcey Carter (Scotland), Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)