Australia’s operating machine Steve Smith received his fourth Allan Border Medal on Monday, turning into solely the third participant after Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke to realize the feat.
Smith polled 171 votes, whereas nearest rival Travis Head managed 144, to assert Australian cricket’s high particular person honour, which he had beforehand received in 2015, 2018 and 2021.
Former captain Smith amassed 1,524 runs, which included 4 lots of, through the voting interval and was essential to Australia’s rise to the highest of the Check rankings.
Such was his dominance within the different two codecs that it did not matter ultimately that Smith did not ballot a single vote within the T20 Internationals.
Smith will probably be certainly one of Australia’s key figures as they embark on a four-Check tour of India, the place they hope to safe their place within the World Check Championship closing.
The 33-year-old has additionally been in robust type in 50-over cricket and famously quipped “I am again child” throughout an ODI in opposition to England in November after a profitable method change.
Nonetheless, he misplaced the Males’s ODI Participant of the 12 months award to David Warner on countback, whereas Marcus Stoinis took the T20 honors to Josh Hazlewood.
Opener Usman Khawaja received the Shane Warne Males’s Check Participant of the 12 months award after a prolific 12 months by which he scored 1,020 at a median of 78.46.
Beth Mooney received her second Belinda Clark Award to be topped Australia’s greatest girls’s cricketer after constantly delivering throughout all three codecs.