 with Annabel Sutherland (106) in third place. Within the Allan Border Medal, Marsh polled 223 votes with Pat Cummins (144 votes) and Steve Smith (141 votes) in second and third place. Ashleigh was once more excellent in all codecs all through a season wherein the Australian Girls continued their dominance on the worldwide stage successful the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, retaining the Girls’s Ashes and successful ODI and T20I sequence in India. Throughout all codecs, she scored 499 runs at 24.94 with a high rating of 65 and took 56 wickets at 19.39 with finest figures of 8-66. A member of each the ICC ODI and T20I Groups of the 12 months, Ashleigh was additionally excellent within the Australian Girls’s two Check matches. Her outstanding 12-wicket haul in opposition to England at Trent Bridge, together with match-winning figures of 8-66 within the second innings, was one of many highlights of the cricket 12 months. Ashleigh's vital off-field contribution was additionally acknowledged by the Group Impression Award. Gardner established the Ashleigh Gardner Basis (AGF) in 2021 desiring to create a wholesome begin to the varsity day for Indigenous youngsters believing offering breakfast and unstructured play enhances academic outcomes. However, Marsh's first Allan Border Medal capped a beautiful 12 months wherein the skilled West Australian’s attacking batting was once more a characteristic of the Australian Males's profitable short-form campaigns and noticed him recapture a spot within the coronary heart of the Check batting order. He's the primary allrounder to clinch the award in additional than a decade, after Shane Watson did so in 2011. Throughout all codecs, Marsh scored 1638 runs at a mean of 58.5 with a high rating of 177* at a outstanding strike fee of 96 because the Australian Males received its first World Check Championship title, retained the Ashes in England and received a sixth ICC Males’s ODI World Cup trophy in India. Marsh additionally received the Males’s ODI Participant of the 12 months Award after a 12 months of stellar performances by members of the World Cup-winning Males’s ODI crew. He scored 858 runs at 47.67 at a strike fee of 113.94 with a memorable high rating of 177 not out in opposition to Bangladesh within the ODI World Cup recreation in Pune. Ellyse Perry’s huge contribution to her crew’s success was rewarded with each the Girls’s ODI Participant of the 12 months and T20I Participant of the 12 months awards. In ODIs Perry scored 466 runs at 66.57 with a high rating of 91. In T20Is she scored 390 runs at 43.33 with a high rating of 70 and took six wickets at 9.5 with finest figures of 2-3. Nathan Lyon received the Shane Warne Males’s Check Participant of the 12 months Award in the identical 12 months wherein he joined Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath as the one Australian bowlers to take 500 Check wickets. Off-spinner Lyon took 49 Check wickets at 23.73 with a finest return of 8-64 within the victory over India at Indore and scored 131 runs at 10.8. Jason Behrendorff took out the Males’s T20 Worldwide Participant of the 12 months after his profitable return to the Australian Males's Crew on the excursions of South Africa and India. Left-arm fast-bowler Behrendorff took eight wickets at 16.5 with a miserly economic system fee of 6.6 runs per-over, together with a match-winning spell of 1-12 from his 4 overs in India’s complete of 223-3 within the third T20I in Guwahati. Australia’s high home cricketers have been additionally acknowledged with West Australia’s Cameron Bancroft taking out the Males’s and Sophie Day and Elyse Villani sharing the Girls’s Home Participant of the 12 months Awards, which incorporates matches in all codecs. Opener Emma de Broughe received the Betty Wilson Younger Cricketer of the 12 months, whereas fast-bowler Fergus O’Neill took the Bradman Younger Cricketer of the 12 months award. Adelaide Strikers’ batter Matthew Brief received the BBL season 12 Participant of the Match for a second consecutive season. Brief completed an unbelievable common season because the competitors’s main run-scorer with 509 at 72.71 at a strike fee of 153.78 with six fifties and took six wickets. Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu of the Sydney Thunder received the WBBL season 9 Participant of the Match honour. In her fifth season within the WBBL and first with the Thunder, Athapaththu made 511 runs at a mean of 42.58 - second on the common season run-scoring checklist - and took 9 wickets together with her off-spin bowling at an economic system fee of 6.79. Taj Bower from Perth was named Woolworths Cricket Blaster of the 12 months which celebrates the spirt of the sport, teamwork and the enjoyment of enjoying in Australian Cricket’s entry-level programme. Taj was nominated for the wonderful encouragement he confirmed his teammates and his ardour for the sport.){kind=link}
MELBOURNE: Off-spin all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner and fast-bowling all-rounder Mitchell Marsh have clinched the highest honours on the 2024 Australian Cricket Awards by successful the distinguished Belinda Clark Award and Allan Border Medal respectively.
At a ceremony in Melbourne to rejoice a outstanding 12 months of accomplishment for Australian cricket, Ashleigh added a second Belinda Clark Award to the honour she first received in 2022 whereas Marsh received his first Allan Border Medal.
Within the Belinda Clark Award, Gardner polled 147 votes forward of runner-up Ellyse Perry (134) with Annabel Sutherland (106) in third place. Within the Allan Border Medal, Marsh polled 223 votes with Pat Cummins (144 votes) and Steve Smith (141 votes) in second and third place.
Ashleigh was once more excellent in all codecs all through a season wherein the Australian Girls continued their dominance on the worldwide stage successful the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, retaining the Girls’s Ashes and successful ODI and T20I sequence in India. Throughout all codecs, she scored 499 runs at 24.94 with a high rating of 65 and took 56 wickets at 19.39 with finest figures of 8-66.
A member of each the ICC ODI and T20I Groups of the 12 months, Ashleigh was additionally excellent within the Australian Girls’s two Check matches. Her outstanding 12-wicket haul in opposition to England at Trent Bridge, together with match-winning figures of 8-66 within the second innings, was one of many highlights of the cricket 12 months.
Ashleigh’s vital off-field contribution was additionally acknowledged by the Group Impression Award. Gardner established the Ashleigh Gardner Basis (AGF) in 2021 desiring to create a wholesome begin to the varsity day for Indigenous youngsters believing offering breakfast and unstructured play enhances academic outcomes.
However, Marsh’s first Allan Border Medal capped a beautiful 12 months wherein the skilled West Australian’s attacking batting was once more a characteristic of the Australian Males’s profitable short-form campaigns and noticed him recapture a spot within the coronary heart of the Check batting order.
He’s the primary allrounder to clinch the award in additional than a decade, after Shane Watson did so in 2011. Throughout all codecs, Marsh scored 1638 runs at a mean of 58.5 with a high rating of 177* at a outstanding strike fee of 96 because the Australian Males received its first World Check Championship title, retained the Ashes in England and received a sixth ICC Males’s ODI World Cup trophy in India.
Marsh additionally received the Males’s ODI Participant of the 12 months Award after a 12 months of stellar performances by members of the World Cup-winning Males’s ODI crew. He scored 858 runs at 47.67 at a strike fee of 113.94 with a memorable high rating of 177 not out in opposition to Bangladesh within the ODI World Cup recreation in Pune.
Ellyse Perry’s huge contribution to her crew’s success was rewarded with each the Girls’s ODI Participant of the 12 months and T20I Participant of the 12 months awards. In ODIs Perry scored 466 runs at 66.57 with a high rating of 91. In T20Is she scored 390 runs at 43.33 with a high rating of 70 and took six wickets at 9.5 with finest figures of 2-3.
Nathan Lyon received the Shane Warne Males’s Check Participant of the 12 months Award in the identical 12 months wherein he joined Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath as the one Australian bowlers to take 500 Check wickets. Off-spinner Lyon took 49 Check wickets at 23.73 with a finest return of 8-64 within the victory over India at Indore and scored 131 runs at 10.8.
Jason Behrendorff took out the Males’s T20 Worldwide Participant of the 12 months after his profitable return to the Australian Males’s Crew on the excursions of South Africa and India. Left-arm fast-bowler Behrendorff took eight wickets at 16.5 with a miserly economic system fee of 6.6 runs per-over, together with a match-winning spell of 1-12 from his 4 overs in India’s complete of 223-3 within the third T20I in Guwahati.
Australia’s high home cricketers have been additionally acknowledged with West Australia’s Cameron Bancroft taking out the Males’s and Sophie Day and Elyse Villani sharing the Girls’s Home Participant of the 12 months Awards, which incorporates matches in all codecs.
Opener Emma de Broughe received the Betty Wilson Younger Cricketer of the 12 months, whereas fast-bowler Fergus O’Neill took the Bradman Younger Cricketer of the 12 months award. Adelaide Strikers’ batter Matthew Brief received the BBL season 12 Participant of the Match for a second consecutive season.
Brief completed an unbelievable common season because the competitors’s main run-scorer with 509 at 72.71 at a strike fee of 153.78 with six fifties and took six wickets. Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu of the Sydney Thunder received the WBBL season 9 Participant of the Match honour.
In her fifth season within the WBBL and first with the Thunder, Athapaththu made 511 runs at a mean of 42.58 – second on the common season run-scoring checklist – and took 9 wickets together with her off-spin bowling at an economic system fee of 6.79.
Taj Bower from Perth was named Woolworths Cricket Blaster of the 12 months which celebrates the spirt of the sport, teamwork and the enjoyment of enjoying in Australian Cricket’s entry-level programme. Taj was nominated for the wonderful encouragement he confirmed his teammates and his ardour for the sport.