Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

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The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a Cricket trophy that is awarded annually by the International Cricket Council to the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year. It is considered to be the most prestigious of the annual ICC Awards and was first awarded in 2004 to Rahul Dravid.

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First award2004
Final award2024
Currently held byIndia Jasprit Bumrah (1st award)
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ICC Award for Best Men's Cricketer
Presented byICC
First award2004
Final award2024
Currently held byIndia Jasprit Bumrah (1st award)
Most awardsAustralia Ricky Ponting
Australia Mitchell Johnson
India Virat Kohli
(2 awards each)
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The trophy is named after former West Indies cricket captain Sir Garfield Sobers, whose name was chosen by a panel consisting of Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding. They were asked by the ICC to select "an individual with whom to honour cricket's ultimate individual award".[1]

Selection

The recipient of the annual award is selected by an "academy" of 56 individuals (expanded from 50 in 2004), including the current national team captains of the Test-playing nations (10), members of the elite panel of ICC umpires and referees (18), and certain prominent former players and cricket correspondents (28). In the event of a tie in the voting, the award is shared.

List of winners

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Year Image Winner Team Nominees Notes Ref(s)
2004 Rahul Dravid in 2010 Rahul Dravid  India
Also named Test Player of the Year [2][3]
2005 Jacques Kallis in 2009 Jacques Kallis  South Africa
Also named Test Player of the Year and selected as 12th man for the ODI Team of the Year [4][5][6]
Andrew Flintoff in 2006 Andrew Flintoff  England Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year
2006 Ricky Ponting in 2006 Ricky Ponting  Australia
Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [7][8]
2007 Ricky Ponting in 2009
Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [9][10]
2008 Shivnarine Chanderpaul in 2006 Shivnarine Chanderpaul  West Indies
Also named in the Test Team of the Year [11]
2009 Mitchell Johnson in 2009 Mitchell Johnson  Australia
Also named in the Test Team of the Year [12][13]
2010 Sachin Tendulkar in 2013 Sachin Tendulkar  India
Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [14][15][16]
2011 Jonathan Trott in 2010 Jonathan Trott  England
Also named in the Test Team of the Year [17][18]
2012 Kumar Sangakkara in 2014 Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka
Also named Test Player of the Year, named People's Choice Award, named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [19][20]
2013 Michael Clarke in 2009 Michael Clarke  Australia
Also named Test Player of the Year [21][22]
2014 Mitchell Johnson in 2014 Mitchell Johnson
Also named Test Player of the Year [23][24]
2015 Steve Smith in 2018 Steve Smith N/a Also named Test Player of the Year and named in the ODI Team of the Year [25]
2016 Ravichandran Ashwin in 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin  India N/a Also named Test Player of the Year [26]
2017 Virat Kohli in 2017 Virat Kohli N/a Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [27]
2018 Virat Kohli in 2017 N/a Also named Test Player of the Year, named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [28]
2019 Ben Stokes in 2014 Ben Stokes  England N/a Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year [29]
2021 Shaheen Afridi  Pakistan
Also named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year [30]
2022 Babar Azam
Also named in the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year [31]
2023 Pat Cummins  Australia
Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year [32]
2024 Jasprit Bumrah  India
Also named the Test Cricketer of the Year, and named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year [33]
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Superlatives

Wins by player

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Player Winner
Australia Ricky Ponting 2 (2006, 2007)
Australia Mitchell Johnson 2 (2009, 2014)
India Virat Kohli 2 (2017, 2018)
India Rahul Dravid 1 (2004)
South Africa Jacques Kallis 1 (2005)
England Andrew Flintoff 1 (2005)
Cricket West Indies Shivnarine Chanderpaul 1 (2008)
India Sachin Tendulkar 1 (2010)
England Jonathan Trott 1 (2011)
Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara 1 (2012)
Australia Michael Clarke 1 (2013)
Australia Steve Smith 1 (2015)
India Ravichandran Ashwin 1 (2016)
England Ben Stokes 1 (2019)
Pakistan Shaheen Afridi 1 (2021)
Pakistan Babar Azam 1 (2022)
Australia Pat Cummins 1 (2023)
India Jasprit Bumrah 1 (2024)
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Wins by country

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Country Players Total
 Australia 5 7
 India 5 6
 England 3 3
 Pakistan 2 2
 South Africa 1 1
 West Indies 1 1
 Sri Lanka 1 1
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