England all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt has been named Women’s Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council for the second year in a row.
The 31-year-old was England’s player of the series in the drawn 2023 Ashes contest and their leading run-scorer at the T20 World Cup last February.
“It feels pretty special. I wasn’t expecting it,” Sciver-Brunt said.
Pat Cummins, whose Australia won the World Cup, Test Championship and retained the Ashes, won the male award.
As well as being captain he took 18 wickets in the Ashes, which finished in a dramatic 2-2 draw, and another 15 in India as his side won the 50-over title for a sixth time.
“It’s a huge honour,” Cummins said. “It has been a big year with lots of team success and to get this individual honour is huge.”
Sciver-Brunt scored three centuries in five one-day international knocks in 2023, including two against Australia.
“I am really pleased and proud,” she said.
“It is one of the top awards you can win, to come up and compete against your team-mates but also the rest of the international teams as well.”
Sciver-Brunt, who beat Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, and Australia pair Ash Gardner and Beth Mooney to the award, also scored well in her two Tests in 2023 – 78 against Australia and 59 in the defeat by India in December.
Only Australia’s Ellyse Perry and India’s Smriti Mandhana have won two Women’s Cricketer of the Year titles before and Sciver-Brunt is the first to do so in consecutive years.
Despite Sciver-Brunt’s success England were unable to regain the Ashes as the multi-format series was drawn 8-8 while they also exited the T20 World Cup in the semi-finals.
Sciver-Brunt was named in the ICC’s ODI and T20 teams of the year with team-mate Sophie Ecclestone also in the T20 side.
Joe Root and Stuart Broad were both named in the men’s Test team of 2023 while England’s Phil Salt was in the men’s T20 XI.
Australia opener Usman Khawaja was named men’s Test player of the year.
India’s Virat Kohli won the men’s ODI award in the year he broke former team-mate Sachin Tendulkar’s century record in the format.
Award winners
Men’s cricketer of the year: Pat Cummins (Australia)
Women’s cricketer of the year: Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
Men’s Test cricketer of the year: Usman Khawaja (Australia)
Women’s ODI cricketer of the year: Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka)
Men’s ODI cricketer of the year: Virat Kohli (India)
Men’s T20 cricketer of the year: Suryakumar Yadav (India)
Women’s T20 cricketer of the year: Hayley Matthews (West Indies)
Men’s associate cricketer of the year: Bas de Leede (Netherlands)
Women’s associate cricketer of the year: Queentor Abel (Kenya)
Men’s emerging cricketer of the year: Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)
Women’s emerging cricketer of the year: Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)
Men’s Test team of the year: Usman Khawaja (Australia), Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Joe Root (England), Travis Head (Australia), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Alex Carey (wk, Australia), Pat Cummins (capt, Australia), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Mitchell Starc (Australia), Stuart Broad (England)
Women’s ODI team of the year: Phoebe Litchfield (Australia), Chamari Athapaththu (capt, Sri Lanka), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Beth Mooney (wk, Australia), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England), Ash Gardner (Australia), Annabel Sutherland (Australia), Nadine de Klerk (South Africa), Lea Tahuhu (New Zealand), Nahida Akter (Bangladesh)
Men’s ODI team of the year: Rohit Sharma (capt, India), Shubman Gill (India), Travis Head (Australia), Virat Kohli (India), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Heinrich Klaasen (wk, South Africa), Marco Jansen (South Africa), Adam Zampa (Australia), Mohammed Siraj (India), Kuldeep Yadav (India), Mohammed Shami (India)
Women’s T20 team of the year: Chamari Athapaththu (capt, Sri Lanka), Beth Mooney (wk, Australia), Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Ash Gardner (Australia), Deepti Sharma (India), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Megan Schutt (Australia)
Men’s T20 team of the year: Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Phil Salt (England), Nicholas Pooran (wk, West Indies), Suryakumar Yadav (capt, India), Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Mark Adair (Ireland), Ravi Bishnoi (India), Richard Ngarava (Zimbabwe)
