Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a Cricket trophy that is awarded annually by the International Cricket Council to the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year. It is considered to be the most prestigious of the annual ICC Awards and was first awarded in 2004 to Rahul Dravid.

ICC Award for Best Men's Cricketer
Presented by	ICC
First award	2004
Final award	2024
Currently held by	Jasprit Bumrah (1st award)
Most awards	Ricky Ponting Mitchell Johnson Virat Kohli (2 awards each)
Website	ICC Awards

The trophy is named after former West Indies cricket captain Sir Garfield Sobers, whose name was chosen by a panel consisting of Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding. They were asked by the ICC to select "an individual with whom to honour cricket's ultimate individual award".^[1]

Selection

The recipient of the annual award is selected by an "academy" of 56 individuals (expanded from 50 in 2004), including the current national team captains of the Test-playing nations (10), members of the elite panel of ICC umpires and referees (18), and certain prominent former players and cricket correspondents (28). In the event of a tie in the voting, the award is shared.

List of winners

Key

§	Indicates individual was shortlisted

Year	Image	Winner	Team	Nominees	Notes	Ref(s)
2004		Rahul Dravid	India	Andrew Flintoff ( England) § Steve Harmison ( England) Shane Warne ( Australia) § Jacques Kallis ( South Africa) § Brian Lara ( West Indies) V. V. S. Laxman ( India) Ricky Ponting ( Australia) Muttiah Muralitharan ( Sri Lanka) Virender Sehwag ( India)	Also named Test Player of the Year	[2][3]
2005		Jacques Kallis	South Africa	Glenn McGrath ( Australia) Adam Gilchrist ( Australia) Inzamam-ul-Haq ( Pakistan) Rahul Dravid ( India) Shane Warne ( Australia)	Also named Test Player of the Year and selected as 12th man for the ODI Team of the Year	[4][5][6]
		Andrew Flintoff	England		Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year
2006		Ricky Ponting	Australia	Andrew Flintoff ( England) Rahul Dravid ( India) Mahela Jayawardene ( Sri Lanka) Younis Khan ( Pakistan) Monty Panesar ( England) Brett Lee ( Australia) Makhaya Ntini ( South Africa) Adam Gilchrist ( Australia) Michael Hussey ( Australia) § Mohammad Yousuf ( Pakistan) § Muttiah Muralitharan ( Sri Lanka) § Shane Warne ( Australia)	Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year	[7][8]
2007				Matthew Hayden ( Australia) Michael Hussey ( Australia) Jacques Kallis ( South Africa) Glenn McGrath ( Australia) Muttiah Muralitharan ( Sri Lanka) Kevin Pietersen ( England) Shaun Pollock ( South Africa) Kumar Sangakkara ( Sri Lanka) Mohammad Yousuf ( Pakistan) § Shivnarine Chanderpaul ( West Indies) § Mahela Jayawardene ( Sri Lanka)	Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year	[9][10]
2008		Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	Dale Steyn ( South Africa) § Graeme Smith ( South Africa) § Mahela Jayawardene ( Sri Lanka) §	Also named in the Test Team of the Year	[11]
2009		Mitchell Johnson	Australia	Gautam Gambhir ( India) § Thilan Samaraweera ( Sri Lanka) § Andrew Strauss ( England) § Shivnarine Chanderpaul ( West Indies) Tillakaratne Dilshan ( Sri Lanka) MS Dhoni ( India) Shakib Al Hasan ( Bangladesh) Graham Onions ( England) Kumar Sangakkara ( Sri Lanka) Harbhajan Singh ( India) Graeme Smith ( South Africa) Daniel Vettori ( New Zealand) AB de Villiers ( South Africa)	Also named in the Test Team of the Year	[12][13]
2010		Sachin Tendulkar	India	MS Dhoni ( India) Doug Bollinger ( Australia) Michael Clarke ( Australia) Ryan Harris ( Australia) Mitchell Johnson ( Australia) Jacques Kallis ( South Africa) Morné Morkel ( South Africa) Ricky Ponting ( Australia) Kumar Sangakkara ( Sri Lanka) Dale Steyn ( South Africa) Daniel Vettori ( New Zealand) AB de Villiers ( South Africa) Shane Watson ( Australia) Virender Sehwag ( India) § Hashim Amla ( South Africa) § Graeme Swann ( England) §	Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year	[14][15][16]
2011		Jonathan Trott	England	Ian Bell ( England) Stuart Broad ( England) Graeme Swann ( England) Chris Tremlett ( England) James Anderson ( England) Shane Watson ( Australia) Dale Steyn ( South Africa) § Alastair Cook ( England) § Sachin Tendulkar ( India) §	Also named in the Test Team of the Year	[17][18]
2012		Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Saeed Ajmal ( Pakistan) Hashim Amla ( South Africa) § Stuart Broad ( England) Michael Clarke ( Australia § Alastair Cook ( England) Virat Kohli ( India) Vernon Philander ( South Africa) § Stafanie Taylor ( West Indies)	Also named Test Player of the Year, named People's Choice Award, named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year	[19][20]
2013		Michael Clarke	Australia	Alastair Cook ( England) § James Anderson ( England) § Hashim Amla ( South Africa) § MS Dhoni ( India) § Kumar Sangakkara ( Sri Lanka) §	Also named Test Player of the Year	[21][22]
2014		Mitchell Johnson		AB de Villiers ( South Africa) § Angelo Mathews ( Sri Lanka) § Kumar Sangakkara ( Sri Lanka) §	Also named Test Player of the Year	[23][24]
2015		Steve Smith		—	Also named Test Player of the Year and named in the ODI Team of the Year	[25]
2016		Ravichandran Ashwin	India	—	Also named Test Player of the Year	[26]
2017		Virat Kohli		—	Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year	[27]
2018				—	Also named Test Player of the Year, named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year	[28]
2019		Ben Stokes	England	—	Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year	[29]
2021		Shaheen Afridi	Pakistan	Joe Root ( England) § Mohammad Rizwan ( Pakistan) § Kane Williamson ( New Zealand) §	Also named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year	[30]
2022		Babar Azam		Ben Stokes ( England) § Sikandar Raza ( Zimbabwe) § Tim Southee ( New Zealand) §	Also named in the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year	[31]
2023		Pat Cummins	Australia	Travis Head ( Australia) § Virat Kohli ( India) § Ravindra Jadeja ( India) §	Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year	[32]
2024		Jasprit Bumrah	India	Harry Brook ( England) § Travis Head ( Australia) § Joe Root ( England) §	Also named the Test Cricketer of the Year, and named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year	[33]

Superlatives

Wins by player

Player	Winner
Ricky Ponting	2 (2006, 2007)
Mitchell Johnson	2 (2009, 2014)
Virat Kohli	2 (2017, 2018)
Rahul Dravid	1 (2004)
Jacques Kallis	1 (2005)
Andrew Flintoff	1 (2005)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	1 (2008)
Sachin Tendulkar	1 (2010)
Jonathan Trott	1 (2011)
Kumar Sangakkara	1 (2012)
Michael Clarke	1 (2013)
Steve Smith	1 (2015)
Ravichandran Ashwin	1 (2016)
Ben Stokes	1 (2019)
Shaheen Afridi	1 (2021)
Babar Azam	1 (2022)
Pat Cummins	1 (2023)
Jasprit Bumrah	1 (2024)

Wins by country

Country	Players	Total
Australia	5	7
India	5	6
England	3	3
Pakistan	2	2
South Africa	1	1
West Indies	1	1
Sri Lanka	1	1

See also

• ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Test Player of the Year
• ICC ODI Player of the Year