2021 ICC Awards

The 2021 ICC Awards were the seventeenth edition of ICC Awards. The nominations took into account players' performance between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. The announcement of the ICC World XI Teams were made on 19 and 20 January 2022.^[1] The women's awards were announced on 23 January 2022.^[2] The winners of the men's individual ICC awards and ICC Umpire of the year award were announced on 24 January 2022,^[3] with the Spirit of cricket award was announced on 2 February 2022.^[4]

2021 ICC Awards
Date	23–24 January 2022
Presented by	International Cricket Council
Highlights
Cricketer of the Year	Men's: Shaheen Afridi Women's: Smriti Mandhana
Men's Test Cricketer of the Year	Joe Root
ODI Cricketer of the Year	Men's: Babar Azam Women's: Lizelle Lee
T20I Cricketer of the Year	Men's: Mohammad Rizwan Women's: Tammy Beaumont
Emerging Cricketer of the Year	Men's: Janneman Malan Women's: Fatima Sana
Website	www.icc-cricket.com
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Winners and nominees

The shortlists of the nominations for individual award categories were announced from 28 to 31 December 2021.^[1][5]

Shaheen Afridi

Joe Root

Babar Azam

Smriti Mandhana

Lizelle Lee

Individual awards

Men's awards

Men's Cricketer of the Year Shaheen Afridi[6][7] Joe Root Mohammad Rizwan Kane Williamson	Men's Test Cricketer of the Year Joe Root[6][8] Ravichandran Ashwin Kyle Jamieson Dimuth Karunaratne
Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year Babar Azam[6][9] Shakib Al Hasan Janneman Malan Paul Stirling	Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year Mohammad Rizwan[6][10] Jos Buttler Wanindu Hasaranga Mitchell Marsh
Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year Janneman Malan[6]	Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year Zeeshan Maqsood[6]

Women's awards

Women's Cricketer of the Year Smriti Mandhana[6][11] Tammy Beaumont Lizelle Lee Gaby Lewis	Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year Lizelle Lee[6][12] Tammy Beaumont Hayley Matthews Fatima Sana
Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year Tammy Beaumont[6][13] Gaby Lewis Smriti Mandhana Nat Sciver	Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year Fatima Sana[6]
Women's Associate Cricketer of the Year Andrea-Mae Zepeda[6]

Other awards

Umpire of the Year Marais Erasmus

Spirit of Cricket Daryl Mitchell

ICC Teams of the Year

Men's teams

ICC Men's Test Team of the Year ICC Men's Test Team of the Year Batting position Player Team Role Opener Dimuth Karunaratne  Sri Lanka Batsman Rohit Sharma  India Batsman Number 3 Marnus Labuschagne  Australia Batsman Number 4 Joe Root  England Batsman Number 5 Kane Williamson  New Zealand Batsman / Captain Number 6 Fawad Alam  Pakistan Batsman Number 7 Rishabh Pant  India Batsman / Wicket-keeper Number 8 Kyle Jamieson  New Zealand Bowler Number 9 Ravichandran Ashwin  India All-rounder Number 10 Hasan Ali  Pakistan Bowler Number 11 Shaheen Afridi  Pakistan Bowler

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year Batting position Player Team Role Opener Paul Stirling  Ireland Batsman Janneman Malan  South Africa Batsman Number 3 Babar Azam  Pakistan Batsman / Captain Number 4 Fakhar Zaman  Pakistan Batsman Number 5 Rassie van der Dussen  South Africa Batsman Number 6 Shakib Al Hasan  Bangladesh All-rounder Number 7 Mushfiqur Rahim  Bangladesh Batsman / Wicket-keeper Number 8 Wanindu Hasaranga  Sri Lanka All-rounder Number 9 Mustafizur Rahman  Bangladesh Bowler Number 10 Simi Singh  Ireland Bowler Number 11 Dushmantha Chameera  Sri Lanka Bowler

ICC Men's t20i Team of the Year ICC Men's T20I Team of the Year Batting position Player Team Role Opener Jos Buttler  England Batsman Mohammad Rizwan  Pakistan Batsman / Wicket-keeper Number 3 Babar Azam  Pakistan Batsman / Captain Number 4 Aiden Markram  South Africa Batsman Number 5 Mitchell Marsh  Australia All-rounder Number 6 David Miller  South Africa Batsman Number 7 Tabraiz Shamsi  South Africa Bowler Number 8 Josh Hazlewood  Australia Bowler Number 9 Wanindu Hasaranga  Sri Lanka All-rounder Number 10 Mustafizur Rahman  Bangladesh Bowler Number 11 Shaheen Afridi  Pakistan Bowler

Women's teams

ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year Batting position Player Team Role Opener Lizelle Lee  South Africa Batsman Alyssa Healy  Australia Batsman / Wicket-keeper Number 3 Tammy Beaumont  England Batsman Number 4 Mithali Raj  India Batsman Number 5 Heather Knight  England Batsman / Captain Number 6 Hayley Matthews  West Indies All-rounder Number 7 Marizanne Kapp  South Africa All-rounder Number 8 Shabnim Ismail  South Africa Bowler Number 9 Fatima Sana  Pakistan Bowler Number 10 Jhulan Goswami  India Bowler Number 11 Anisa Mohammed  West Indies Bowler

ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year Batting position Player Team Role Opener Smriti Mandhana  India Batsman Tammy Beaumont  England Batsman Number 3 Danielle Wyatt  England Batsman Number 4 Gaby Lewis  Ireland Batsman Number 5 Natalie Sciver  England All-rounder / Captain Number 6 Amy Jones  England Batsman / Wicket-keeper Number 7 Laura Wolvaardt  South Africa Batsman Number 8 Marizanne Kapp  South Africa All-rounder Number 9 Sophie Ecclestone  England Bowler Number 10 Loryn Phiri  Zimbabwe Bowler Number 11 Shabnim Ismail  South Africa Bowler

Selection Committee

The nominees were shortlisted by the Awards panel, comprising prominent cricket journalists and broadcasters from across the globe along with Geoff Allardice, the ICC's CEO.^[1] The Voting Academy, comprising a wider selection of global cricket journalists and broadcasters, voted for their first, second and third choices for each category.^[3] The ICC also took into consideration fans’ votes via ICC's digital channels. The result of the Voting Academy selections and the fans’ vote were combined to determine the winner in each of the first seven categories.^[14]