Steve Smith and Beth Mooney have taken the top branches at this year’s Australian Cricket Awards, recognizing them from their peers, game officials and the media for a strong 12 months in the game.
Smith went out of his way for Pat Cummins to win the Allan Border Medal, the award given to Australian cricketer of the year.
The batting superstar collected 126 votes in the voting period (January 9, 2020 to January 19, 2021), 12 plus 114 Cummins votes.
This is his third time winning the Allan Border Medal. Only Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke – four times each – have won more times.
Smith scored 1098 runs at 45.75 across all formats in voting time, the highest number of any Australian player runs. It was in one-day internationals that he got most of his runs, scoring 568 at 63.11 to be voted the ODI player of the year in Australia.
Cummins, who gave 21 wikis at 20.04 in the Border-Gavaskar series – the only four tests played during voting time – was selected as test player of the year.
Beth Mooney scrambled after captain Meg Lanning to win the Belinda Clark Award
Mooney defeated former captain Meg Lanning to win the Belinda Clark Award, the award given to the best female cricketer of the year in Australia.
She received 555 runs at 42.69 across all constituencies in voting time and won 60 votes. That was two more votes than Lanning, who got 442 runs at 49.11.
Mooney was the team’s top T20Is in the voting period, getting 504 runs at 45.81, including six fifties and aptly named as the women’s T20I player of the year. in Australia.
She was the top run winner in the 2020 Women’s T20 World Cup, scoring 259 runs at 64.75, including 78 unbeaten in Australia’s victory over India in the final.
Ashton Agar has been crowned Australia’s T20I Player of the Year.
Ashton Agar won the Men’s T20I Player of the Year award
Mooney is the first player in addition to Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy to win the Belinda Clark award since 2013.
Rachael Haynes was named Australia’s women’s ODI player of the year, after scoring 222 runs at an average of 74 in voting time.
On Friday, Shaun Marsh and Elyse Villani were named Australian home players of the year, and Will Sutherland and Hannah Darlington were named young cricketers of the year Don Bradman and Belly Wilson.
Also this summer the three Johnny Mullagh, Merv Hughes and Lisa Sthalekar entered the Australian Hall of Fame.
2021 recipients of the Australian Cricket Awards
Allan Border Medal – Steve Smith
Belinda Clark Award – Beth Mooney
Male Test Player of the Year – Pat Cummins
Men’s ODI Player of the Year – Steve Smith
Men’s T20I Player of the Year – Ashton Agar
Women’s ODI Player of the Year – Rachael Haynes
Women’s T20I Player of the Year – Beth Mooney
Community Impact Award – Josh Lalor
Men’s home player of the year – Shaun Marsh
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year – Will Sutherland
Home Player of the Year – Elyse Villani
Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year – Hannah Darlington
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame – Johnny Mullagh, Merv Hughes and Lisa Sthalekar