ICC Awards of the Decade

The ICC Awards of the Decade is a one-off edition of the ICC Awards annual awards programme, aimed at celebrating the stand-out performers and moments from the past ten years of international cricket. An Awards Nominations Committee, comprising prominent cricket journalists and broadcasters from across the globe and the ICC General Manager – Cricket, have determined a shortlist of nominees for each category. For the first time the fans’ voice will be heard in selecting the winners across categories including the Sir Garfield Sobers and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Awards, which celebrate the best overall player from the men's and women's game over the past decade.^[1] The fan vote will make up 10% of the voting, while votes from an expert panel will make up the remaining 90%. The voting panel took into account players' performance between 1 January 2011 and 7 October 2020.^[2] The announcement of the ICC World XI Teams, along with the winners of the individual ICC awards, was made on 27 December, 2020.^[1][3] Virat Kohli won Men's Cricketer of the Decade while Ellyse Perry was named as Women's Cricket of the Decade.^[4]

ICC Awards of the Decade
Date	27 December 2020
Presented by	ICC
Highlights
Male Cricketer of the Decade	Virat Kohli
Female Cricketer of the Decade	Ellyse Perry
Website	www.icc-cricket.com
ICC Awards

Award categories and winners

Individual awards

ICC Men's Cricketer of the Decade (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) Garfield Sobers Trophy Virat Kohli

ICC Women's Cricketer of the Decade Ellyse Perry

ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Decade Steve Smith

ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade Virat Kohli

ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Decade Ellyse Perry

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade Rashid Khan

ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade Ellyse Perry

ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade Kyle Coetzer

ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade Kathryn Bryce

ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade MS Dhoni

ICC Teams of the Decade

Men's teams

ICC Men's Test Team of the Decade Test Team of the year Test Team of the Decade Batting position Player Team Role Opener Alastair Cook  England Batsman David Warner  Australia Batsman Number 3 Kane Williamson  New Zealand Batsman Number 4 Virat Kohli  India Batsman / Captain Number 5 Steve Smith  Australia Batsman Number 6 Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka Batsman / (wk) Number 7 Ben Stokes  England All-rounder Number 8 Ravichandran Ashwin  India All-rounder Number 9 Dale Steyn  South Africa Bowler Number 10 Stuart Broad  England Bowler Number 11 James Anderson  England Bowler

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Decade ODI Team of the year ODI Team of the Decade Batting position Player Team Role Opener Rohit Sharma  India Batsman David Warner  Australia Batsman Number 3 Virat Kohli  India Batsman Number 4 AB de Villiers  South Africa Batsman Number 5 Shakib Al Hasan  Bangladesh All-rounder Number 6 MS Dhoni  India Batsman / Captain(wk) Number 7 Ben Stokes  England All-rounder Number 8 Mitchell Starc  Australia All-rounder Number 9 Trent Boult  New Zealand Bowler Number 10 Imran Tahir  South Africa Bowler Number 11 Lasith Malinga  Sri Lanka Bowler

ICC Men’s T20I Team of the Decade T20I Team of the Year T20I Team of the Decade Batting position Player Team Role Opener Rohit Sharma  India Batsman Chris Gayle  West Indies Batsman Number 3 Aaron Finch  Australia Batsman Number 4 Virat Kohli  India Batsman Number 5 AB de Villiers  South Africa Batsman Number 6 Glenn Maxwell  Australia All-rounder Number 7 MS Dhoni  India Batsman / captain (wk) Number 8 Kieron Pollard  West Indies All-rounder Number 9 Rashid Khan  Afghanistan Bowler Number 10 Jasprit Bumrah  India Bowler Number 11 Lasith Malinga  Sri Lanka Bowler

Women's teams

ICC Women's ODI Team of the Decade ODI team of the year ODI Team of the Decade Batting position Player Team Role Opener Alyssa Healy  Australia Batsman Suzie Bates  New Zealand Batsman Number 3 Mithali Raj  India Batsman Number 4 Meg Lanning  Australia Batsman / Captain Number 5 Stafanie Taylor  West Indies All-rounder Number 6 Sarah Taylor  England Batsman / (wk) Number 7 Ellyse Perry  Australia All-rounder Number 8 Dane van Niekerk  South Africa Bowler Number 9 Marizanne Kapp  South Africa Bowler Number 10 Jhulan Goswami  India Bowler Number 11 Anisa Mohammed  West Indies Bowler

ICC Women's T20I Team of the Decade t20i team of the year T20I Team of the Decade Batting position Player Team Role Opener Alyssa Healy  Australia Batsman / (wk) Sophie Devine  New Zealand Batsman Number 3 Suzie Bates  New Zealand Batsman Number 4 Meg Lanning  Australia Batsman / Captain Number 5 Harmanpreet Kaur  India All-rounder Number 6 Stafanie Taylor  West Indies All-rounder Number 7 Deandra Dottin  West Indies Batsman Number 8 Ellyse Perry  Australia All-rounder Number 9 Anya Shrubsole  England Bowler Number 10 Megan Schutt  Australia Bowler Number 11 Poonam Yadav  India Bowler

Criteria

The criteria for nomination for the ICC Player of the Decade award are designed to recognize sustained excellence and significant impact in international cricket over a ten-year period. To be eligible for nomination, a cricketer must have achieved one of the following milestones: winning at least one ICC trophy, including the Cricket World Cup, ICC Test Championship Mace, ICC Men's T20 World Cup, or ICC Champions Trophy. Alternatively, the nominee can qualify by being named the ICC Player of the Tournament in any of these competitions at least once. These criteria highlight both team success and individual brilliance, ensuring that the nominees have not only contributed to their teams' achievements on the world stage but have also exhibited outstanding personal performances in major international tournaments.

Nominations

The following are the nominations for the ICC Awards of the Decade:^[1] Winners have been announced and are mentioned in the chart above^[4]

ICC Mens Cricketer of the Decade

• Virat Kohli
• Ravichandran Ashwin
• Joe Root
• Kumar Sangakkara
• Steve Smith
• AB de Villiers
• Kane Williamson

(Out of these only Kumar Sangakarra was retired at time of nomination)

ICC Womens Cricketer of the Decade

• Suzie Bates
• Meg Lanning
• Ellyse Perry
• Mithali Raj
• Sarah Taylor
• Stafanie Taylor

ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Decade

• James Anderson
• Virat Kohli
• Rangana Herath
• Joe Root
• Yasir Shah
• Steve Smith
• Kane Williamson

ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade

• Virat Kohli
• Lasith Malinga
• Kumar Sangakkara
• Rohit Sharma
• Mitchell Starc
• AB de Villiers

ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade

• Suzie Bates
• Meg Lanning
• Ellyse Perry
• Mithali Raj
• Stafanie Taylor

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade

• Aaron Finch
• Virat Kohli
• Chris Gayle
• Rashid Khan
• Lasith Malinga
• Rohit Sharma
• Imran Tahir

ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade

• Sophie Devine
• Deandra Dottin
• Alyssa Healy
• Meg Lanning
• Anya Shrubsole
• Ellyse Perry

ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade

• Richie Berrington
• Peter Borren
• Kyle Coetzer
• Paras Khadka
• Calum MacLeod
• Assad Vala

ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade

• Kathryn Bryce
• Sarah Bryce
• Natthakan Chantam
• Sterre Kalis
• Chanida Sutthiruang
• Sornnorin Tippoch

ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade

See also: ICC Spirit of Cricket Award

• MS Dhoni (2011 Winner)
• Daniel Vettori (2012 Winner)
• Mahela Jayawardene (2013 Winner)
• Katherine Brunt (2014 Winner)
• Brendon McCullum (2015 Winner)
• Misbah-ul-Haq (2016 Winner)
• Anya Shrubsole (2017 Winner)
• Kane Williamson (2018 Winner)
• Virat Kohli (2019 Winner)

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