ICC Men's Test Team of the Year

This article is about the award for players. For the team rankings, see ICC Test Championship.

The ICC Men's Test Team of the Year is an honour awarded each year by the International Cricket Council. It recognises the top cricket players from around the world in the Test format of the game. The team does not actually compete, but exists solely as an honorary entity.

ICC Men's Test Team of Year

Winners

Players marked bold won the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	No. 11	12th man
2004[1]	Matthew Hayden	Herschelle Gibbs	Ricky Ponting (c)	Rahul Dravid	Brian Lara	Jacques Kallis	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Chaminda Vaas	Shane Warne	Jason Gillespie	Steve Harmison
2005[2]	Virender Sehwag	Graeme Smith		Jacques Kallis		Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Adam Gilchrist (wk)		Chaminda Vaas	Glenn McGrath	Anil Kumble
2006[3]	Matthew Hayden	Michael Hussey	Ricky Ponting	Rahul Dravid (c)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Andrew Flintoff	Shane Warne	Makhaya Ntini	Muttiah Muralitharan		Brett Lee
2007[4]		Michael Vaughan	Ricky Ponting (c)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kevin Pietersen	Michael Hussey	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Stuart Clark		Mohammad Asif	Muttiah Muralitharan	Zaheer Khan
2008[5]	Graeme Smith (c)	Virender Sehwag	Mahela Jayawardene	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Kevin Pietersen	Jacques Kallis	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Brett Lee	Ryan Sidebottom	Dale Steyn		Stuart Clark
2009[6]	Gautam Gambhir	Andrew Strauss	AB de Villiers	Sachin Tendulkar	Thilan Samaraweera	Michael Clarke	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Shakib Al Hasan	Mitchell Johnson	Stuart Broad	Dale Steyn	Harbhajan Singh
2010[7][8]	Virender Sehwag	Simon Katich	Sachin Tendulkar	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	Jacques Kallis		Graeme Swann	James Anderson	Dale Steyn	Doug Bollinger
2011[9]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla	Jonathan Trott	Sachin Tendulkar	Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk)	AB de Villiers	Jacques Kallis	Stuart Broad	Graeme Swann		James Anderson	Zaheer Khan
2012[10]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	Jacques Kallis	Michael Clarke (c)	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Matt Prior (wk)		Saeed Ajmal	Vernon Philander	Dale Steyn	AB de Villiers
2013[11]	Alastair Cook (c)	Cheteshwar Pujara	Hashim Amla	Michael Clarke	Michael Hussey	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (wk)	Graeme Swann	Dale Steyn	James Anderson	Vernon Philander	Ravichandran Ashwin
2014[12][13]	David Warner	Kane Williamson	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers (wk)	Joe Root	Angelo Mathews (c)	Mitchell Johnson	Stuart Broad		Rangana Herath	Tim Southee	Ross Taylor
2015[14]		Alastair Cook (c)	Kane Williamson	Younis Khan	Steve Smith	Joe Root	Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)		Trent Boult	Yasir Shah	Josh Hazlewood	Ravichandran Ashwin
2016[15]				Joe Root	Adam Voges	Jonny Bairstow (wk)	Ben Stokes	Ravichandran Ashwin	Rangana Herath	Mitchell Starc	Dale Steyn	Steve Smith
2017[16]	Dean Elgar	David Warner	Virat Kohli (c)	Steve Smith	Cheteshwar Pujara	Ben Stokes	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin	Mitchell Starc	Kagiso Rabada	James Anderson
2018[17]	Tom Latham	Dimuth Karunaratne	Kane Williamson	Virat Kohli (c)	Henry Nicholls	Rishabh Pant (wk)	Jason Holder	Kagiso Rabada	Nathan Lyon	Jasprit Bumrah	Mohammad Abbas
2019[18]	Mayank Agarwal	Tom Latham	Marnus Labuschagne	Virat Kohli (c)	Steve Smith	Ben Stokes	BJ Watling (wk)	Pat Cummins	Mitchell Starc	Neil Wagner	Nathan Lyon
2021[19]	Dimuth Karunaratne	Rohit Sharma		Joe Root	Kane Williamson (c)	Fawad Alam	Rishabh Pant (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin	Kyle Jamieson	Hasan Ali	Shaheen Afridi
2022[20]	Usman Khawaja	Kraigg Brathwaite		Babar Azam	Jonny Bairstow	Ben Stokes (c)		Pat Cummins	Kagiso Rabada	Nathan Lyon	James Anderson
2023[21]	Usman Khawaja	Dimuth Karunaratne	Kane Williamson	Joe Root	Travis Head	Ravindra Jadeja	Alex Carey (wk)	Pat Cummins (c)	Ravichandran Ashwin	Mitchell Starc	Stuart Broad
2024[22]	Yashasvi Jaiswal	Ben Duckett			Harry Brook	Kamindu Mendis	Jamie Smith (wk)	Ravindra Jadeja	Pat Cummins (c)	Matt Henry	Jasprit Bumrah

Superlatives

Players marked bold are still active in Test matches and years marked bold indicate they won the ICC Test Player of the Year in that respective year:

#	Player	Team	Appearances	First XI	12th man	Years
1	Dale Steyn	South Africa	8	8	0	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
2	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	7	7		2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
	Kane Williamson	New Zealand				2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024
3	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	6	6		2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
	Stuart Broad	England				2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2023
	Joe Root	England				2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024
	Ravichandran Ashwin	India		4	2	2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023
4	Alastair Cook	England	5	5	0	2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
	James Anderson					2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022
	AB de Villiers	South Africa		4	1	2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
5	Ricky Ponting	Australia	4	4	0	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
	David Warner					2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
	Hashim Amla	South Africa				2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
	Ben Stokes	England				2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
	Steve Smith	Australia		3	1	2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
	Mitchell Starc			4	0	2016, 2017, 2019, 2023
	Pat Cummins					2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
6	Michael Clarke		3	3	0	2009, 2012, 2013
	Marnus Labuschagne					2019, 2021, 2022
	Matthew Hayden					2004, 2006, 2007
	Michael Hussey					2006, 2007, 2013
	Shane Warne					2004, 2005, 2006
	Nathan Lyon					2018, 2019, 2022
	Graeme Swann	England				2010, 2011, 2013
	MS Dhoni	India				2009, 2010, 2013
	Virat Kohli					2017, 2018, 2019
	Virender Sehwag					2005, 2008, 2010
	Sachin Tendulkar					2009, 2010, 2011
	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa				2017, 2018, 2022
	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka				2006, 2007, 2008
	Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka				2018, 2021, 2023
7	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	2	2	0	2004, 2005
	Mitchell Johnson					2009, 2014
	Glenn McGrath					2005, 2006
	Andrew Flintoff	England				2005, 2006
	Kevin Pietersen					2007, 2008
	Jonny Bairstow					2016, 2022
	Rahul Dravid	India				2004, 2006
	Cheteshwar Pujara					2013, 2017
	Rishabh Pant					2021, 2022
	Tom Latham	New Zealand				2018, 2019
	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan				2006, 2007
	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa				2006, 2007
	Vernon Philander					2012, 2013
	Graeme Smith					2005, 2008
	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka				2014, 2016
	Chaminda Vaas					2004, 2005
	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies				2008, 2012
	Brian Lara					2004, 2005
	Usman Khawaja	Australia				2022, 2023
	Jasprit Bumrah	India				2018, 2024
	Ravindra Jadeja					2023, 2024
	Stuart Clark	Australia		1	1	2007, 2008
	Brett Lee					2006, 2008
	Zaheer Khan	India		0	2	2007, 2011

Appearances by nation

Country	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Australia	5	4	6	4	2	2	2		1	2	2	3	4	3	1	5	1	4	5	1	57
England	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	5	3	3	2	3	4	2		1	1	3	2	4	44
India	1	2	1	1	1	4	3	2		3		1	1	3	3	2	3	1	2	3	37
South Africa	2	2	1	1	3	2	3	4	5	4	2		1	3	1			1			35
Sri Lanka	1	1	2	2	3	1	1	1	1		3		1		1		1		1	1	21
New Zealand											3	2	1		3	3	2		1	2	17
Pakistan		1	1	2					1			3			1		3	1			13
West Indies	1	1			1				1						1			1			6
Bangladesh						1															1

See also

• ICC Awards
• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Men's Cricketer of the Year)
• ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year
• David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
• ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year