Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

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.

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".

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

Superlatives

Wins by player

Wins by country

See also

• Wisden Cricketers of the Year

References

External links

• ICC Awards

1. Garfield Sobers
2. Mitchell Johnson
3. Virat Kohli
4. Shaheen Afridi
5. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
6. Pat Cummins
7. Sachin Tendulkar
8. Steve Smith (cricketer)
9. ICC Awards of the Decade
10. Ravichandran Ashwin
11. 2016 ICC Awards
12. ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year
13. 2013 ICC Awards
14. 2008 ICC Awards
15. ICC Men's Test Team of the Year
16. Babar Azam
17. 2010 ICC Awards
18. David Shepherd Trophy
19. Jacques Kallis
20. 2014 ICC Awards