2015 ICC Awards

Date| 23 December 2015
Presented by| ICC
Highlights
Men's Cricketer of the Year|  Steve Smith
Men's Test Player of the Year|  Steve Smith
ODI Player of the Year| Men's: AB de Villiers
Women's: Meg Lanning
Women's T20I Player of the Year|  Stafanie Taylor
Men's Emerging Player of the Year|  Josh Hazlewood
Website| www.icc-cricket.com
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The 2015 ICC Awards were awards presented in ten categories by the ICC to international cricket players.[1]

The awards covered and took into account players' performance between 18 September 2014 and 13 September 2015.

## Award categories and winners[edit]

Steve Smith

AB de Villiers

Meg Lanning

### Individual awards[edit]

#### Men's awards[edit]

Men's Cricketer of the Year

* Steve Smith[2]

Men's Test Player of the Year

* Steve Smith

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Men's ODI Player of the Year

* AB de Villiers[3]

Men's Emerging Player of the Year

* Josh Hazlewood[4]

Men's Associate Player of the Year

* Khurram Khan[5][6]

#### Women's awards[edit]

Women's ODI Player of the Year

* Meg Lanning[7]

Women's T20I Player of the Year

* Stafanie Taylor[8]

#### Other awards[edit]

Umpire of the Year

* Richard Kettleborough

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year

* Faf du Plessis, for scoring 119 runs off 56 deliveries against the  West Indies at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on 11 January 2015[9]

Spirit of Cricket

* Brendon McCullum, whose sportsmanship was noted by the ICC, particularly after the 2015 Cricket World Cup semi-final against South Africa on 24 March 2015[10]

### ICC Teams of the Year[edit]

ICC Men's Test Team of the Year

Alastair Cook was selected as the captain of the Test Team of the Year, with Sarfaraz Ahmed selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

* David Warner
* Alastair Cook
* Kane Williamson
* Younis Khan
* Steve Smith
* Joe Root
* Sarfaraz Ahmed
* Stuart Broad
* Trent Boult
* Yasir Shah
* Josh Hazlewood
* Ravichandran Ashwin (12th man)

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year

AB de Villiers was selected as the captain of the ODI Team of the Year, with Kumar Sangakkara selected as the wicket-keeper. Other players are:

* Tillakaratne Dilshan
* Hashim Amla
* Kumar Sangakkara
* AB de Villiers
* Steve Smith
* Ross Taylor
* Trent Boult
* Mohammed Shami
* Mitchell Starc
* Mustafizur Rahman
* Imran Tahir
* Joe Root (12th man)

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## Selection Committee[edit]

Both of the ICC World XI Teams were chosen by a specially appointed selection panel, known as the ICC Selection Committee and chaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Anil Kumble.[11]

Selection Committee members:[12]

* Anil Kumble (chairman)
* Ian Bishop
* Mark Butcher
* Belinda Clark
* Gundappa Viswanath

## See also[edit]

* Cricket portal

* International Cricket Council
* ICC Awards
* Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Cricketer of the Year)
* ICC Test Player of the Year
* ICC ODI Player of the Year
* David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
* ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year
* ICC Test Team of the Year
* ICC ODI Team of the Year

## References[edit]

1. ^ "ICC awards 2015". www.icc-cricket.com. International Cricket Council. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
2. ^ "Australia captain Steve Smith wins ICC's cricketer of the year award". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
3. ^ "Australia captain Steve Smith sweeps ICC Awards". The Indian Express. Indian Express Limited. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
4. ^ "Steve Smith sweeps ICC awards, no Indian among winners". Deccan Herald. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
5. ^ Wu, Andrew (23 December 2015). "Steve Smith, Josh Hazlewood, Meg Lanning claim major ICC player awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
6. ^ "Steven Smith claims top ICC awards". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
7. ^ "Steve Smith, Meg Lanning win ICC player of the year awards". ABC News (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
8. ^ "Trinidad Express Newspapers: Sports | Cameron hails 'good leader' Taylor". Archived from the original on 24 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
9. ^ "South Africa vs. West Indies (2nd T20I, West Indian tour of South Africa in 2014–15)". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
10. ^ "Brendon McCullum wins ICC Spirit Of Cricket award". The New Zealand Herald. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
11. ^ "Smith, Boult in ICC teams of the year". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Inc. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
12. ^ "ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2015 announced - ICC Cricket". Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

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