ICC Test Player of the Year

ICC Award for Best Test player of the year
Awarded for	Best performance over year in Test cricket
Presented by	ICC
First awarded	2004
Currently held by	Steve Smith
Most awards	Steve Smith (2 Awards)
Website	ICC Awards

The ICC Test Player of the Year is an annual award, presented since 2004 by the International Cricket Council to the best Test player over the year in question. It is one of the annual 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.

Superlatives

Superlative	ICC Test Player of The Year
Player with most awards	Steve Smith	2
Player with most nominations	Jacques Kallis Ricky Ponting	3
Player with most nominations (without ever winning)	Mahela Jayawardene Shane Warne	2
Oldest winner	Mohammad Yousuf	33
Youngest winner	Dale Steyn	25

List of Winners

Year	Winner	Also Nominated
2004	Rahul Dravid
2005	Jacques Kallis	Inzamam-ul-Haq Adam Gilchrist Glenn McGrath Shane Warne
2006	Ricky Ponting	Mohammad Yousuf Mike Hussey Mahela Jayawardene Shane Warne
2007	Mohammad Yousuf	Ricky Ponting Mahela Jayawardene Muttiah Muralitharan Mohammad Asif
2008	Dale Steyn	Shivnarine Chanderpaul Mahela Jayawardene Jacques Kallis
2009	Gautam Gambhir	Mitchell Johnson Thilan Samaraweera Andrew Strauss
2010	Virender Sehwag	Sachin Tendulkar Hashim Amla Dale Steyn
2011	Alastair Cook
2012	Kumar Sangakkara
2013	Michael Clarke
2014	Mitchell Johnson
2015	Steve Smith
2016	Ravichandran Ashwin
2017	Steve Smith

See also

• ICC Awards

References