2015 ICC Awards

The 2015 ICC Awards were awards presented in ten categories by the ICC to international cricket players.^[1]

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
← 2014 · ICC Awards · 2016 →

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

Award categories and winners

Steve Smith

AB de Villiers

Meg Lanning

Individual awards

Men's awards

Men's Cricketer of the Year Steve Smith[2]	Men's Test Player of the Year Steve Smith
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

Women's ODI Player of the Year Meg Lanning[7]

Women's T20I Player of the Year Stafanie Taylor[8]

Other awards

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

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)

Selection Committee

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

• 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