Sydney Sixers WBBL skipper Ellyse Perry and superstar all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner have both been nominated as finalists in the 2023 International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards.
The ICC this week revealed the finalists in nine ICC Awards categories and fans are now able to vote for their top performers in selected ICC Awards categories here.
Gardner is in line to win the major women’s award, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, where she is up against 2022 winner Nat Sciver-Brunt, fellow Australian Beth Mooney and Sri Lankan and Sydney Thunder star Chamari Athapaththu. She is also in contention to take out the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
The Sixers star took more wickets than anyone else in women’s internationals in 2023, taking 58 wickets in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. Beyond the statistics, Gardner also won the Player of the Tournament award at the record-breaking ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for her all-round brilliance, and became the first player to win back-to-back ICC Women’s Player of the Month prizes in June and July.
Perry is a finalist in the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, a crown she won in 2019. The Sixers’ icon has also twice claimed the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy – 2017 and 2019.
Winners of the ICC Awards 2023 will be announced later in January 2024.
ICC Awards 2023 – Shortlists
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Pat Cummins (Australia), Travis Head (Australia), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Virat Kohli (India)
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Beth Mooney (Australia), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year; R Ashwin (India), Travis Head (Australia), Usman Khawaja (Australia), Joe Root (England)
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Shubman Gill (India), Virat Kohli (India), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Mohammed Shami (India)
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Suryakumar Yadav (India)
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia)
ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Gerald Coetzee (South Africa), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka), Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)
ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Marufa Akter (Bangladesh), Lauren Bell (England), Darcey Carter (Scotland), Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)