ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year Award: The ICC Men’s cricketer of the Year Award is one of the ICC Awards that ICC announces every year to the best performer of the past 12 months. The ICC Awards are a collection of yearly sports awards for international cricket that reward and acknowledge the top players from the preceding 12 months. The International Cricket Council (ICC) launched the awards in 2004. The awards were referred to as the LG ICC Awards from 2009 to 2014 due to sponsorship.
The ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year Award is often called the Sir Garfield Sober Trophy. Actually, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a cricket trophy presented by the International Cricket Council to the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year yearly. It is regarded as the most prestigious of the annual ICC Awards and was first given to Rahul Dravid in 2004.
A committee made up of Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar, and Michael Holding decided to honor Sir Garfield Sobers, a former West Indies cricket captain, by naming the trophy after him. The ICC asked them to decide on “a person with whom to honor cricket’s greatest individual award.”
ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year Award winners from 2004 to 2022
| Year | Winner | Country |
| 2004 | Rahul Dravid | India |
| 2005 | Jacques Kallis Andrew Flintoff* | South Africa England* |
| 2006 | Ricky Ponting | Australia |
| 2007 | Ricky Ponting | Australia |
| 2008 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | West Indies |
| 2009 | Mitchell Johnson | Australia |
| 2010 | Sachin Tendulkar | India |
| 2011 | Jonathan Trott | England |
| 2012 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka |
| 2013 | Michael Clarke | Australia |
| 2014 | Mitchell Johnson | Australia |
| 2015 | Steve Smith | Australia |
| 2016 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India |
| 2017 | Virat Kohli | India |
| 2018 | Virat Kohli | India |
| 2019 | Ben Stokes | England |
| 2021 | Shaheen Afridi | Pakistan |
| 2022 | Babar Azam | Pakistan |
How ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year or Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy winners are selected?
The winner of the Sir Garfield Sober Trophy is elected by an academy of 56 members (increased from 50 in 2004), which includes the current captains of the Test-playing nations’ national teams, members of the ICC‘s elite panel of umpires and referees, and a few well-known former players and cricket correspondents. The award is split if there is a tie in the voting between two or more players.
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