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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.
Aaron McAllister is the publisher for Utilities at Finder, helping to deliver insightful guides to sports, entertainment and energy. He has a Bachelor of Commerce and a major in Marketing from the University of Wollongong. Away from work, you can find him perfecting his jump shot.
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