New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced various awards in the men’s and women’s category for the year 2021 to acknowledge all the notable cricketing performances at its awards ceremony. In the year 2021, Pakistan dominated the list of winners released on Monday.
Unfortunately, the Indian cricket team, which is currently undergoing transformation, failed to win a single ICC award. This is the first time since 2016 that an Indian player could not win an ICC award in the men’s category.
Pakistani players received three ICC awards. Babar Azam was adjudged the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year, while Mohammad Rizwan won the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award. Left-arm pacer Shaheen Afridi received the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year. For the first time in the history of ICC annual awards, Pakistan won three awards.
No Indian player got a place in the ICC ODI and T20 team for the year 2021. Babar Azam of Pakistan was chosen as the captain of both the teams.
Here is the list of all the recipients of ICC Awards 2021 so far:
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Babar Azam (Pakistan)
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year – Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan)
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year – Joe Root (Eng)
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Tammy Beaumont (England)
ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Year – Andrea-May Zepeda (Austria)
ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Fatima Sana (Pakistan)
Rachel Hehoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Smriti Mandhana
ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Year – Zeeshan Maqsood (Oman)
ICC Umpire of the Year – Marais Erasmus
ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year – Janaman Malan (South Africa)
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Lizelle Lee
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan)
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award – to be announced
ICC Team of the Year
ICC Women’s ODI squad of 2021: Lizelle Lee (South Africa), Alyssa Healy (Australia), Tammy Beaumont (England), Mithali Raj (India), Heather Knight (Eng, c), Marijne Cup (South Africa), Hayley Matthews ( West Indies), Fatima Sana (PAK), Jhulan Goswami (IND), Shabnim Ismail (South Africa) and Anisa Mohammad (West Indies).
ICC Women’s T20I squad for 2021: Smriti Mandhana (IND), Tammy Beaumont (Eng), Danny Wyatt (Eng), Gabby Lewis (IRE), Nat Sciver (Eng, C), Amy Jones (Eng, WK), Laura Wolvaardt (SA) ), Marizan Cup (South Africa), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Lauryn Firi (ZIM) and Shabnim Ismail (SA).
ICC Men’s Test squad for 2021: Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka), Rohit Sharma (India), Marnus Labuschagne (AUS), Joe Root (England), Kane Williamson (NZ), Fawad Alam (PAK), Rishabh Pant (IND, WK) ), Ravichandran Ashwin (IND), Kyle Jamieson (NZ), Hasan Ali (PAK) and Shaheen Afridi (PAK).
The ICC Men’s ODI Team of 2021: Paul Stirling (IRE), Janneman Malan (SA), Babar Azam (PAK, C), Fakhar Zaman (PAK), Rassie van der Dussen (SA), Shakib Al-Hasan (BANG), Mushfiqur Rahim (BANG, WK), Wanindu Hasaranga (SL), Mustafizur Rahman (BANG), Simi Singh (IRE) and Dushmantha Chameera (SL)
ICC Men’s T20I squad for 2021: Jos Buttler (England), Mohammad Rizwan (PAK, WK), Babar Azam (PAK, C), Aiden Markram (SA), Mitchell Marsh (AUS), David Miller (SA), Wanindu Hasaranga ( Sri Lanka), Tabrez Shamsi (South Africa), Josh Hazlewood (Australia), Mustafizur Rahman (Bang) and Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan).
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