Steven Smith named ICC Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year

Steven Smith has been named both the ICC Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year for 2014-2015.

AB de Villiers was rightly named ODI Cricketer of the Year, while fellow countryman Faf du Plessis won the T20 Performance of the Year award for his 56-ball 119 against West Indies in the World Cup.

Full list of award winners:

ICC Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) - Steven Smith
Test Cricketer of the Year - Steven Smith
ODI Cricketer of the Year - AB de Villiers
Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year - Meg Lanning
Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year - Stafanie Taylor
T20I Performance of the Year - Faf du Plessis
Emerging Cricketer of the Year - Josh Hazlewood
Associate/Affiliate Cricketer of the Year - Khurram Khan
Spirit of Cricket Award - Brendon McCullum
Umpire of the Year (David Shepherd Trophy) - Richard Kettleborough

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/conte...54525.html

No Kane Williamson ?? :

Well done Stafanie Taylor ... showing up the men's team here 

Kane should be the winner.  after all he is the ICC number 1 player!!

Kane Williamson (New Zealand)

There simply couldn’t be anyone else batting at No.3 other than Kane Williamson. Bar monumental Boxing Day Tests from Steve Smith, Joe Root or AB de Villiers, Williamson will finish 2015 ranked as the world’s best batsman, exactly where he deserves to be after scoring 1172 runs at an average of 90.15 for the year.

In just eight Tests Williamson tallied five centuries and four half-centuries, bringing up hundreds against England, Australia and Sri Lanka. After scoring 428 runs at an average of 85.60 in Australia, Williamson returned home to slay Sri Lanka, making scores of 88, 71, 1 and 108 not out over the two Test series. The last of those innings was arguably his finest of the year, scoring a stylish century at a strike rate of 65.85 in the fourth innings.


Steve Smith (Australia)

Steve Smith split his year between first drop and second drop and thanks to the form of Williamson it’s No.4 he will bat at in our 2015 Test XI.

Heading into the Boxing Day Test Smith sits fourth on the run-scoring charts for 2015 with 1270 runs at an average of 63.50 with five centuries and four half-centuries to his name. Smith started the year on fire, making scores of 117 and 71 against India in the New Year’s Test, and then made the transition to first drop look easy with a then-career high score of 199 against the West Indies in June.

The talented right-hander had an up-and-down Ashes series, making a high score of 33 during Australia’s three defeats but a double ton, a hundred and a half-century during the team’s two wins, indicative of how important he had become to the side in a short period of time.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/team...7685536870