ICC One-day Player of the Year Award

ICC Award for Best Player
Awarded for Best Performance by an Player in ODI Cricket
Presented by ICC
First awarded 2004
Currently held by AB de Villiers

The ICC One-day Player of the Year is an annual award presented since 2004 by the International Cricket Council to the best One Day International player.

The trophy is handcrafted by leading international crystal manufacturer Swarovski. The design features a red crystal cricket ball studded with over 4200 Swarovski crystal chantons, resting on a brass hand extended from a gold-plated base.

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".

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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.

Superlatives

Superlative ICC Player of the Year ICC Test Player of The Year ICC ODI Player of The Year Overall
Player with most awards Ricky Ponting 2 - - MS Dhoni 2 Ricky Ponting 3
Player with most nominations Ricky Ponting
Shivnarine Chanderpaul		 3 Jacques Kallis
Ricky Ponting		 3 Sachin Tendulkar
Muttiah Muralitharan		 3 Ricky Ponting 7
Player with most nominations
(without ever winning)		 Mohammed Yousuf 2 Mahela Jayawardene
Muttiah Muralitharan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul		 2 Sachin Tendulkar
Muttiah Muralitharan		 3 Muttiah Muralitharan 6
Oldest winner Sachin Tendulkar 37 Mohammad Yousuf 33 Matthew Hayden 36 Sachin Tendulkar 37
Youngest winner Andrew Flintoff 27 Dale Steyn 25 Kevin Pietersen 25 Kevin Pietersen
Dale Steyn		 25

List of Winners

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

References

  1. ^ "Flintoff named joint ICC player of the year". Daily Mail. 11 October 2005. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-365055/Flintoff-named-joint-ICC-player-year.html. Retrieved 17 June 2011. 
  2. ^ "Ricky Ponting is ICC Cricketer of the Year". Herald Sun. 11 September 2007. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket/punter-aussies-clean-up-awards/story-e6frfg8o-1111114390707. Retrieved 17 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "Chanderpaul tops list of ICC award winners". ABC News (Australia). 11 September 2008. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/11/2361509.htm. Retrieved 17 June 2011.