ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year

The ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year is an annual award presented since 2004 by the International Cricket Council to the best One Day International cricketer. It is one of the annual ICC Awards.

ICC Award for Best Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year
Awarded for	Best Performance by a Player in ODI Cricket
Presented by	ICC
First award	2004
Final award	2024
Currently held by	Azmatullah Omarzai (1st award)
Most awards	Virat Kohli (4 awards)
Website	ICC Awards

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

Year	Winner	Shortlisted
2004	Andrew Flintoff	Sachin Tendulkar Abdul Razzaq Ricky Ponting Muttiah Muralitharan
2005	Kevin Pietersen[1]	Andrew Flintoff Adam Gilchrist Brett Lee Andrew Symonds
2006	Michael Hussey	Mahela Jayawardene Ricky Ponting Yuvraj Singh
2007	Matthew Hayden[2]	Jacques Kallis Glenn McGrath Ricky Ponting
2008	MS Dhoni[3]	Mohammed Yousuf Nathan Bracken Sachin Tendulkar
2009		Shivnarine Chanderpaul Virender Sehwag Yuvraj Singh Umar Gul
2010	AB de Villiers	Sachin Tendulkar Shane Watson Ryan Harris
2011	Kumar Sangakkara	Hashim Amla Gautam Gambhir Shane Watson
2012	Virat Kohli	MS Dhoni Lasith Malinga Kumar Sangakkara
2013	Kumar Sangakkara	Shikhar Dhawan Ravindra Jadeja Saeed Ajmal Misbah-ul-Haq
2014	AB de Villiers	Virat Kohli Quinton de Kock Dale Steyn
2015		Kumar Sangakkara Trent Boult Mitchell Starc
2016	Quinton de Kock[4]
2017	Virat Kohli[5][6]
2018
2019	Rohit Sharma
2021	Babar Azam	Shakib Al Hasan[7] Janneman Malan Paul Stirling
2022		Adam Zampa[8] Sikandar Raza Shai Hope
2023	Virat Kohli	Shubman Gill[9] Mohammed Shami Daryl Mitchell
2024	Azmatullah Omarzai[10]	Wanindu Hasaranga[11] Kusal Mendis Sherfane Rutherford

Superlatives

Wins by player

Player	Winner
Virat Kohli	4 (2012, 2017, 2018, 2023)
AB de Villiers	3 (2010, 2014, 2015)
MS Dhoni	2 (2008, 2009)
Kumar Sangakkara	2 (2011, 2013)
Babar Azam	2 (2021, 2022)
Andrew Flintoff	1 (2004)
Kevin Pietersen	1 (2005)
Michael Hussey	1 (2006)
Matthew Hayden	1 (2007)
Quinton de Kock	1 (2016)
Rohit Sharma	1 (2019)
Azmatullah Omarzai	1 (2024)

Wins by country

Country	Players	Total
India	3	7
South Africa	2	4
England		2
Australia
Sri Lanka	1
Pakistan
Afghanistan	1	1