Awarded during the Australian Cricket Awards, the Allan Border Medal is considered to be the most prestigious individual prize in Australian men's

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. First awarded in 2000, the medal is named after former Australian men's captain Allan Border and recognises the most outstanding male Australian cricketer of the past season as voted by his peers, the media and umpires. Votes are cast after each game on a 3–2–1 basis, with a weighting applied to give both One Day International and Test players an equal chance of winning the award.

Media

The award ceremony itself is a major publicity event and traditionally takes place at the

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, towards the end of January or the start of February each year. The 2014, 2015 and 2017 ceremonies however, were all held in Sydney. Due to the

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, the 2021 ceremony was unable to be held in person and the awards were instead announced as part of the pre-match show for the BBL 10 Final. The award ceremony itself, prior to 2019 was broadcast live and screened on the digital channel Nine (2000 to 2010) and 9Gem (2011 to 2018). Since 2019, the event has been televised live on both Fox Cricket and 7mate channels.

Allan Border Medallists

Five cricketers have won the award more than once. Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke won the award four times, sharing the award in 2009. The other multiple winners include

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and Steve Smith who have won the award three times, as well as Shane Watson who has won the award twice. Watson also has the highest vote count of 296, with a huge margin of 100 votes in 2011. *2000: Glenn McGrath *2001: Steve Waugh *2002: Matthew Hayden *2003: Adam Gilchrist *2004: Ricky Ponting *2005: Michael Clarke *2006: Ricky Ponting *2007: Ricky Ponting *2008: Brett Lee *2009¹: Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke *2010: Shane Watson *2011: Shane Watson *2012: Michael Clarke *2013: Michael Clarke *2014:

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*2015: Steve Smith *2016:

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*2018: Steve Smith *2019: Pat Cummins *2020:

*2021: Steve Smith *2022: Mitchell Starc Ref: ¹No count-back is used in the Allan Border Medal.

Multiple winners

Belinda Clark Award

The Belinda Clark Award recognises Australia's best women's international cricketer. Like the Allan Border Medal, it is presented annually and determined by matches played in the previous twelve-month period (for example: Ellyse Perry was the winner of the 2020 award, based on her performances predominantly taking place in 2019). The award is named after former national team captain Belinda Clark, whom the similarly titled

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—given to the

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Player of the WNCL Season—also honours. *2002: Karen Rolton *2003: Karen Rolton *2004: Cathryn Fitzpatrick *2005: Karen Rolton *2006: Karen Rolton *2007:

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*2013: Jess Cameron *2014: Meg Lanning *2015: Meg Lanning *2016: Ellyse Perry *2017: Meg Lanning *2018: Ellyse Perry *2019:

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*2020: Ellyse Perry *2021: Beth Mooney *2022: Ashleigh Gardner Ref:

Multiple winners

Other awards

During the Australian Cricket Awards, other awards announced include: * Shane Warne Men's Test Player of the Year, * Women's Test Player of the Year * Men's One Day International Player of the Year, * Women's One Day International Player of the Year, * Men's Twenty20 International Player of the Year, * Women's Twenty20 International Player of the Year, *

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Young Cricketer of the Year, * Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year, * Male Domestic Player of the Year, * Female Domestic Player of the Year, * Community Champion Award, and * New members of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame are also inducted on Allan Border Medal night. Shane Watson won a total of 7 awards which is the most by any player. He is the only player to have won in all formats and all five major awards for male players. Three players won three major awards including the Allan Border Medal in the same year - Ricky Ponting in 2007, Shane Watson in 2011 and Steve Smith in 2015.

Shane Warne Men's Test Player of the Year

*2000: Glenn McGrath *2001: Colin Miller *2002: Matthew Hayden *2003: Ricky Ponting *2004: Ricky Ponting *2005: Damien Martyn *2006: Shane Warne *2007: Ricky Ponting *2008: Brett Lee *2009: Michael Clarke *2010: Simon Katich *2011: Shane Watson *2012: Michael Clarke *2013: Michael Clarke *2014: Michael Clarke *2015: Steve Smith *2016:

*2017: Mitchell Starc *2018: Steve Smith *2019: Nathan Lyon *2020: Marnus Labuschagne *2021: Pat Cummins *2022: Travis Head Ref:

Multiple winners

Men's One Day International Player of the Year

*2000: Shane Warne *2001: Glenn McGrath *2002: Ricky Ponting *2003: Adam Gilchrist *2004: Adam Gilchrist *2005: Andrew Symonds *2006¹: Michael Hussey *2007: Ricky Ponting *2008: Matthew Hayden *2009: Nathan Bracken *2010: Shane Watson *2011: Shane Watson *2012: Shane Watson *2013: Clint McKay *2014: George Bailey *2015: Steve Smith *2016: Glenn Maxwell *2017:

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*2019: Marcus Stoinis *2020: Aaron Finch *2021: Steve Smith *2022:

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Ref: ¹After counting in the 2006 One Day International Player of the Year award, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Adam Gilchrist all drew on 22 votes. On a count-back, the winner would have been Andrew Symonds but he was ruled ineligible because he was suspended for 2 One Day Matches for an off-field indiscretion. On a second count-back Michael Hussey was declared the winner.

Multiple winners

Men's Twenty20 International Player of the Year

*2011: David Hussey *2012: Shane Watson *2013: Shane Watson *2014: Aaron Finch *2015: Glenn Maxwell *2016¹: ''Not awarded'' *2017: Shane Watson *2018: Aaron Finch *2019: Glenn Maxwell *2020:

*2021: Ashton Agar *2022: Mitch Marsh Ref: ¹Not awarded due to only 1 T20I played in 2015.

Multiple winners

Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year

The Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year Award has been awarded continuously since 1990 and is The Bradman Foundation's principal award of recognition to elite cricketers. To be eligible for the award, the player must be a contracted first-class player, be under the age of 24, and have played not more than 10 first-class matches before 26 January. *2000: Brett Lee *2001: Nathan Bracken *2002: Shane Watson *2003: Nathan Hauritz *2004: Shaun Tait *2005: Mark Cosgrove *2006: Dan Cullen *2007: Ben Hilfenhaus *2008: Luke Pomersbach *2009: Phillip Hughes *2010: John Hastings *2011:

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*2013: Joe Burns *2014:

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*2015: Sean Abbott *2016: Alex Ross *2017: Hilton Cartwright *2018:

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*2019:

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*2021: Will Sutherland *2022: Tim Ward Ref:

Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year

Named in honour of Betty Wilson, one of Australia's great all-rounders, it recognises a female cricketer who, prior to 5 December, was aged under 25 and had played 10 or fewer matches. *2017:

Sophie Molineux Sophie Grace Molineux (born 17 January 1998) is an Australian cricketer from Bairnsdale, Victoria. A left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder, Molineux has been a member of the national women's team since 2018. At domestic level, she currently p ...

*2018: Georgia Redmayne *2019: Georgia Wareham *2020:

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*2021: Hannah Darlington *2022: Darcie Brown Ref:

Male Domestic Player of the Year

*2000: Darren Lehmann (South Australia) *2001: Darren Lehmann (South Australia) *2002: Darren Lehmann (South Australia) *2003: Martin Love (Queensland) *2004: Simon Katich (New South Wales) *2005: Andy Bichel (Queensland) *2006: Phil Jaques (New South Wales) *2007:

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(Western Australia) *2008: Ashley Noffke (Queensland) *2009: Michael Klinger (South Australia) *2010: Michael Klinger (South Australia) *2011: Usman Khawaja (New South Wales) *2012: Rob Quiney (Victoria) *2013: Phillip Hughes (New South Wales) *2014: Cameron White (Victoria) *2015:

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(Western Australia) *2016: Adam Voges (Western Australia) *2017: Cameron White (Victoria) *2018: George Bailey (Tasmania) *2019: Matthew Wade (Tasmania) *2020: Shaun Marsh (Western Australia) *2021: Shaun Marsh (Western Australia) *2022: Travis Head (South Australia) Ref:

Multiple winners

Female Domestic Player of the Year

*2017: Meg Lanning (Victoria / Melbourne Stars) *2018: Beth Mooney (Queensland / Brisbane Heat) *2019: Heather Graham (Western Australia / Perth Scorchers) *2020: Molly Strano (Victoria / Melbourne Renegades) *2021: Elyse Villani (Victoria / Melbourne Stars) *2022: Elyse Villani (Tasmania / Melbourne Stars) Ref:

Australian Cricket Hall of Fame

References

External links

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