Each year from 1998 to 2005 '' Wisden Australia'' selected one Australian

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as ''Wisden Australia'' Cricketers of the Year. The award recognised that player's contribution to

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in Australia in the previous season, in a similar manner to the Wisden Cricketers of the Year, selected by '' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' based on their influence on the game in England. The first award was made to a women's cricketer, Belinda Clark. Until

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was nominated by Wisden in 2009, no other woman had been a Cricketer of the Year in any format of the almanack.

List of ''Wisden Australia'' Cricketers of the Year

References

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