
List of Allan Border Medal winners
It's Cricket Australia's most prestigious men's award, but which greats have won the Allan Border Medal?
While cricket is a team sport, there are still quite a few individual accolades on offer, albeit a century or a five-wicket haul. Though nothing quite tops being defined the best cricketer in Australia over an entire year. That honour is recognised by receiving the Allan Border Medal. For the women the equivalent of this is the Belinda Clark Award.
The Allan Border Medal is named after the former Australian captain. Each year every cricketer who plays on the international stage whether it's a Test, ODI or T20I is in the running to win the medal. You can see how to watch the Allan Border Medal ceremony here.
How does voting work?
Voting is completed by players, media and umpires after each match. This is done in the same fashion as the AFL's Brownlow Medal and NRL's Dally M Medal on a 3-2-1 voting system. A weighting system is used for voting. This gives Test votes a value of six, one-dayers three and T20Is two.
So while cricket has embraced the shorter formats of the game, the Allan Border Medal gives recognition to the Test arena.
2020 winners
Award | Winner |
---|---|
Allan Border Medal | David Warner |
Belinda Clark Medal | Ellyse Perry |
Test Player of the Year | Marnus Labuschagne |
Men's ODI Player of the Year | Aaron Finch |
Women's ODI Player of the Year | Alyssa Healy |
Men's T20I Player of the Year | David Warner |
Women's T20I Player of the Year | Alyssa Healy |
Domestic Male Player of the Year | Shaun Marsh |
Domestic Female Player of the Year | Molly Strano |
Bradman Young Men's Cricketer of the Year | Wes Agar |
Betty Wilson Young Women's Cricketer of the Year | Tayla Vlaeminck |
Allan Border Medal winners
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2000 | Glenn McGrath |
2001 | Steve Waugh |
2002 | Matthew Hayden |
2003 | Adam Gilchrist |
2004 | Ricky Ponting |
2005 | Michael Clarke |
2006 | Ricky Ponting |
2007 | Ricky Ponting |
2008 | Brett Lee |
2009 | Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke |
2010 | Shane Watson |
2011 | Shane Watson |
2012 | Michael Clarke |
2013 | Michael Clarke |
2014 | Mitchell Johnson |
2015 | Steve Smith |
2016 | David Warner |
2017 | David Warner |
2018 | Steve Smith |
2019 | Pat Cummins |
2020 | David Warner |
Since its inception in 2000 we've seen a total of 21 Allan Border Medal winners. Historically batsman have held the edge over the bowlers. There has been just one instance when there were co-winners, in 2009 with ex-captains Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke sharing the honour. The pair also hold the record of most wins with four apiece.
Belinda Clark Award winners
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2002 | Karen Rolton |
2003 | Karen Rolton |
2004 | Cathryn Fitzpatrick |
2005 | Karen Rolton |
2006 | Karen Rolton |
2007 | Lisa Sthalekar |
2008 | Lisa Sthalekar |
2009 | Shelley Nitschke |
2010 | Shelley Nitschke |
2011 | Shelley Nitschke |
2012 | Shelley Nitschke |
2013 | Jess Cameron |
2014 | Meg Lanning |
2015 | Meg Lanning |
2016 | Ellyse Perry |
2017 | Meg Lanning |
2018 | Ellyse Perry |
2019 | Alyssa Healy |
2020 | Ellyse Perry |
Image source: Cricket Australia
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