ICC Men's Cricketer of the year winners of last ten years

The ICC Awards are an annual set of sports awards for international cricket, which recognize and honor the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months. The awards were introduced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2004. Moreover, ICC has also awarded the players who have performed throughout the decade (2010-19). ICC gave their awards in January last year.

However, in this particular article, we are going to discuss the players who have won the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year in the last ten years. This list includes some of the outperformers of their country like Ben Stokes, Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Ashwin, Johnson, and Kumar Sangakkara, etc.

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Jonathan Trott | 2011

England batsman Jonathan Trott has been named as the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award winner for the year 2011 for his phenomenal performance in all the formats. Trott has played 29 ODIs and smashed 1315 runs including 10 half-centuries and 2 centuries in the year 2011. Meanwhile, he registered his highest score in ODIs of 137 that year. He has also taken 2 wickets conceding 119 runs. Trott has aggregated 6792 runs across format's including 7 wickets during his cricket career. Thus, he has named the cricketer of the 2011 year.

Kumar Sangakkara | 2012

Sri Lanka's legendary wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara has won the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award in 2012. Sangakkara becomes the 9th player to receive the award. Kumar Sangakkara has played 10 Tests in 2012 and smashed 767 runs with an average of 51.13. Moreover, Sangakkara registered three half-centuries and two centuries of his Test career on that year. The left-handed batsman has aggregated 28,016 runs during his international cricket career including a 57+ average in test cricket. For his brilliant performance in 2012, he adjusted with the men's cricketer of the year award in that year.

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Michael Clarke | 2013

Former Australia World Cup-winning skipper Michael Clarke has won the award back in 2013. Clarke has aggregated 1559 test runs at a huge average of 70.86 on that year. He has also smashed five centuries on that year including 2 double hundreds. He was aggregated the highest among all his playing peers. Michael Clarke has registered 17,112 runs during his international cricket career. Thus, Clarke has been rewarded with the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award in 2013.

Mitchell Johnson | 2014

Former Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson has won the Men's cricketer of the year award in 2014. Johnson has played 83 test matches in 2014, in which he scalped 47 wickets with an average of 23.26 including 2 fifers. In his international career, Mitchell Johnson has taken 790 wickets across formats including 12 fifers in test, and also scored 3100 runs. Therefore, he became the 11th player to receive the award for his extraordinary performance in test cricket in the year 2014.

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Steven Smith | 2015

Australia batsman Steven Smith has been named as the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award in the year 2015 for his phenomenal batting performance in Test cricket. Smith has played 13 test matches in that year, in which he aggregated 1474 runs with an impressive average of 73.70. The right-handed batsman has smashed 5 half-centuries and 6 centuries including a score of 215. Smith has so far played 79 tests, 128 ODIs, and 52 T20Is in his career and has aggregated 12,892 runs. For his brilliant run in tests back in the year 2015, he received the Men's Cricketer Of The Year award in that edition.

Ravichandran Ashwin | 2016

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has named the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award winner in the year 2016. Ravichandran Ashwin became only the fifth cricketer to complete 300 plus runs and more than 25 wickets in a Test series in that year. Ashwin has had a sensational year aggregating 612 runs in Tests besides snaring 72 wickets. Ashwin has taken 427 Test wickets so far and is near to cross Kapil Dev's 434 wickets in tests. Moreover, Ashwin has also added 3553 runs and took 738 wickets across formats. For his brilliant display with both the bat and bowl, he received the award in the year 2016.

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Virat Kohli | 2017

Indian Test skipper Virat Kohli has won the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award first time in 2017 for his brilliant run at international cricket. Kohli has aggregated 1059 runs in 10 tests, while he smashed 1460 runs in 26 ODIs. Kohli has smashed 11 hundred including three double hundreds across formats in the year 2017. Meanwhile, with 299 T20I runs, Virat Kohli has aggregated 2818 runs in 2017 across formats. Kohli has registered 23,197 runs so far during his international cricket career. Therefore for his brilliant performance throughout the year, he has been rewarded with the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award.

Virat Kohli | 2018

Yes, you read it write it's again Virat Kohli who has won the award back to back in 2017 & 2018. Indian skipper Kohli has also broken the record of Sachin Tendulkar to become the fastest to score 10000 runs in ODI cricket this year. Kohli has aggregated 2735 runs across formats in 2018 including 11 hundred to his name. The former Indian white-ball captain has also retained the Border Gavaskar Trophy in the same year. Kohli has ended the year as the number 1 batsman in Tests and ODIs. Therefore, he received the award from ICC as the men's cricketer of the year 2018.

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Ben Stokes | 2019

England star all-rounder Ben Stokes was the main game-changer in England's maiden ODI World Cup in 2019. Ben Stokes in the final of the 2019 World Cup, where he scored 84 runs and helped England to ei their maiden World Cup title. Stokes scored an unbeaten 135 to steal victory in the third Ashes Test at Headingley in August 2019. Moreover, in 2019 Ben Stokes aggregated 719 runs and bagged 12 wickets in 20 ODIs and smashed 821 runs, and took 22 wickets in 11 tests. Therefore, he received the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award in 2019.

Virat Kohli | 2020

Former India white-ball captain Virat Kohli has won the ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award for the third time in 2020. He has also won the ICC ODI Player Of The Decade award in the same year for his excellent run at international cricket since 2011. Virat has won the cricketer of the year award back in 2017 & 2018 for his brilliant performance in both years. He has averaged 50+ in all the forms of the game. Kohli has registered 23,197 runs so far during his international cricket career. Therefore, he received the award for the third time in just four years.

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Now, any guess who will win this year's ICC Men's Cricketer Of The Year award? Meanwhile, there is a good contest between England skipper Joe Root and Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan. One has brilliant performances in tests and the other one has performed well through all the T20Is he played in 2021.