Australian Cricket Awards – Allan Border Medal: Mitchell Starc has been named the Australian Cricketer of the Year. Starc won his first Allan Border Medal, beating Mitchell Marsh by just one vote to be awarded the top honour on Saturday. Starc had recently dropped out of IPL 2022 Auction to focus on his test career. Follow LIVE Cricket Updates & IPL 2022 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
ALLAN BORDER MEDAL
Mitchell Starc (107 votes)
2nd: Mitchell Marsh (106 votes)
3rd: Travis Head (72 votes)
Travis Head meanwhile was named Australian Test Cricketer of the Year & Starc the ODI Cricketer of the year. Mitch Marsh was named the T20 Player of the year for Australia.
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Allan Border Medal – Starc Australian Cricketer of the YEAR: The left-armer considered as world’s most dreaded pace bowler took a total of 43 wickets at 24.4 across all formats during the voting period.
Starc also played a key role in Australia’s 4-0 Ashes triumph and was also part of Australia’s T20 World Cup winning squad.
Starc’s tally of 43 wickets across all formats in the voting period was 12 better than second on the list, Josh Hazlewood with 31 at 15.5.
Starc was also named men’s ODI player of the year for his display against the West Indies in mid-2021, taking 11 wickets at 10.6 in the three-game series.
Marsh, who was player-of-the-match in the T20 World Cup final in November, enjoyed his best white ball season for Australia and was named best men’s T20I player of the year.
Allan Border Medallist, for the very first time!
Congratulations, Mitchell Starc 👏 #AusCricketAwards pic.twitter.com/JDQlzI6Dos
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) January 29, 2022
As voted by peers, umpires and the media, Marsh’s tally of 106 was beaten by one by Starc, who was also named men’s ODI player of the year.
Marsh amassed 684 runs at 34.2 during the voting period, inlcuding an unbeaten 77 off 50 balls in a World Cup final win over New Zealand.
How dominant was this man in our #T20WorldCup campaign?!
Mitch Marsh has been named Men’s T20 Player of the Year at the #AusCricketAwards. He scored six half centuries across the voting period 👏 pic.twitter.com/zf3qfKTfDr
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) January 29, 2022
Travis Head who have reinvnted himself was rightfully named Australian Test Cricketer of the year 2021. He played just four matches in the voting period during the Ashes series, yet he came third in the AB Medal count with 72 votes.
He scored 357 runs at 59.5 and was named as Ashes player-of-the-series.
Australian Cricket Awards
Allan Border Medal – Mitchell Starc
Male Test Player of the Year – Travis Head
Male ODI Player of the Year – Mitchell Starc
Male T20I Player of the Year – Mitchell Marsh
Female Domestic Player of the Year – Elyse Villani
Male Domestic Player of the Year – Travis Head
Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year – Darcie Brown
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year – Tim Ward
Community Champion Award – Zoe Cooke
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees – Raelee Thompson and Justin Langer
This is an enjoyable watch 👌@RickyPonting and @gilly381 sit back and reminisce with Justin Langer as he’s inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com/fisjKiuy2D
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 29, 2022
