Travis Head has received the 2025 Allan Border Medal as Australia’s prime male cricketer of the previous 12 months.
At present on the Check tour of Sri Lanka, Head accepted the distinguished award on the Australian crew’s beachside lodge in Galle – some 8,000km away from the Australian Cricket Awards ceremony at Melbourne’s Crown On line casino.
The 31-year-old had been the favorite to assert a primary Allan Border Medal and he turned the primary South Australian to obtain the honour.
Check and One Day Worldwide captain Pat Cummins appeared his closest competitors, having been named skipper of the ICC’s Check crew of the yr for 2024.
However Head was clearly Australia’s kind batter of the previous 12 months with 1427 runs throughout the three codecs.
Head additionally took out the one-day worldwide class, once more for the primary time.
The Belinda Clark Award as the highest Australian ladies’s participant was additionally introduced on the finish of the Monday night time Cricket Australia operate in Melbourne.
Star all-rounder Annabel Sutherland, who tore England aside final week with an impressive ton of their lopsided Ashes Check, was a preferred winner of the award.
Sutherland was third within the one-day voting and a distant sixth for the ladies’s T20 worldwide award.
However she was awarded prime votes for the 2 Exams performed by the Australian ladies within the voting interval over the previous 12 months, most just lately scoring 163 on the MCG because the hosts capped their Ashes whitewash.
The daughter of former Cricket Australia chief government James Sutherland and sister of Victorian star Will Sutherland is the primary lady to attain a Check ton on the MCG.
In February final yr, Sutherland scored 210 within the Check in opposition to South Africa on the WACA.
The additional weighting for the Check votes proved the distinction for Sutherland. It’s the first time she has received any of the highest ladies’s classes – the Belinda Clark award, the one-day worldwide or the T20 worldwide participant.
Earlier on Monday, Boxing Day Check sensation Sam Konstas was named the Bradman younger males’s cricketer of the yr.
West Australian Chloe Ainsworth received the Betty Wilson award for the highest younger ladies’s cricketer, whereas Beau Webster and Georgia Voll took the home awards.
Head is coming off a bumper 12 months throughout all three codecs and had been tipped by stand-in captain Steve Smith to win the boys’s award.
The 31-year-old scored a staggering 1427 runs throughout all three codecs within the 12-month polling interval that started with Australia’s residence Check collection in opposition to West Indies final January, and ended with the current Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Smith has the next-most runs with 806, whereas solely Zampa (31) performed extra video games than Head (29) within the voting interval.
A blistering 140 runs in his residence Check match on the Adelaide Oval in opposition to India was an plain spotlight for Head, and helped reignite Australia’s collection after their dismal loss within the first match in Perth.
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