ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year explained

The ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year is an honour awarded each year by the International Cricket Council. It recognizes the top cricket players from around the world in the ODI format of the game. The team does not actually compete, but exists solely as an honorary entity.

ICC Men's ODI Team of Year

Winners

Players marked bold won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:

Year	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	No. 11	12th Man
2004^[1]	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Sachin Tendulkar	Chris Gayle	Ricky Ponting (c)	Brian Lara	Virender Sehwag	Jacques Kallis	Andrew Flintoff	Shaun Pollock	Chaminda Vaas	Jason Gillespie
2005^[2]	Marvan Atapattu (c)	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Rahul Dravid	Kevin Pietersen	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Andrew Symonds	Daniel Vettori	Brett Lee	Naved-ul-Hasan	Glenn McGrath	Jacques Kallis
2006^[3]	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	MS Dhoni	Ricky Ponting	Mahela Jayawardene (c)	Yuvraj Singh	Michael Hussey	Andrew Flintoff	Irfan Pathan	Brett Lee	Shane Bond	Muttiah Muralitharan	Andrew Symonds
2007^[4]	Matthew Hayden	Sachin Tendulkar	Ricky Ponting (c)	Kevin Pietersen	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Jacques Kallis	Mark Boucher (wk)	Chaminda Vaas	Shane Bond	Muttiah Muralitharan	Glenn McGrath	Michael Hussey
2008^[5]	Herschelle Gibbs	Sachin Tendulkar	Ricky Ponting (c)	Younis Khan	Andrew Symonds	MS Dhoni (wk)	Farveez Maharoof	Daniel Vettori	Brett Lee	Mitchell Johnson	Nathan Bracken	Salman Butt
2009^[6]	Virender Sehwag	Chris Gayle	Kevin Pietersen	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Yuvraj Singh	Martin Guptill	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Andrew Flintoff	Nuwan Kulasekara	Ajantha Mendis	Umar Gul	Thilan Thushara
2010^[7]	Sachin Tendulkar	Shane Watson	Michael Hussey	AB de Villiers	Paul Collingwood	Ricky Ponting (c)	MS Dhoni (wk)	Daniel Vettori	Stuart Broad	Doug Bollinger	Ryan Harris
2011^[8] ^[9]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Virender Sehwag	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers	Shane Watson	Yuvraj Singh	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Graeme Swann	Umar Gul	Dale Steyn	Zaheer Khan	Lasith Malinga
2012^[10]	Gautam Gambhir	Alastair Cook	Kumar Sangakkara	Virat Kohli	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Michael Clarke	Shahid Afridi	Morné Morkel	Steven Finn	Lasith Malinga	Saeed Ajmal	Shane Watson
2013^[11]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Shikhar Dhawan	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Ravindra Jadeja	Saeed Ajmal	Mitchell Starc	James Anderson	Lasith Malinga	Mitchell McClenaghan
2014^[12]	Mohammad Hafeez	Quinton de Kock	Virat Kohli	George Bailey	AB de Villiers	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	Dwayne Bravo	James Faulkner	Dale Steyn	Mohammed Shami	Ajantha Mendis	Rohit Sharma
2015^[13]	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	AB de Villiers (c)	Steve Smith	Ross Taylor	Trent Boult	Mohammed Shami	Mitchell Starc	Mustafizur Rahman	Imran Tahir	Joe Root
2016^[14]	David Warner	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Rohit Sharma	Virat Kohli (c)	AB de Villiers	Jos Buttler	Mitchell Marsh	Ravindra Jadeja	Mitchell Starc	Kagiso Rabada	Sunil Narine	Imran Tahir
2017^[15] ^[16]	David Warner	Rohit Sharma	Virat Kohli (c)	Babar Azam	AB de Villiers	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Ben Stokes	Trent Boult	Hasan Ali	Rashid Khan	Jasprit Bumrah
2018^[17] ^[18]	Rohit Sharma	Jonny Bairstow	Virat Kohli (c)	Joe Root	Ross Taylor	Jos Buttler (wk)	Ben Stokes	Mustafizur Rahman	Rashid Khan	Kuldeep Yadav	Jasprit Bumrah
2019^[19] ^[20]	Rohit Sharma	Shai Hope	Virat Kohli (c)	Babar Azam	Kane Williamson	Ben Stokes	Jos Buttler (wk)	Mitchell Starc	Trent Boult	Mohammed Shami	Kuldeep Yadav
2021^[21] ^[22]	Paul Stirling	Janneman Malan	Babar Azam(c)	Fakhar Zaman	Rassie van der Dussen	Shakib Al Hasan	Mushfiqur Rahim(wk)	Wanindu Hasaranga	Mustafizur Rahman	Simi Singh	Dushmantha Chameera
2022^[23]	Babar Azam(c)	Travis Head	Shai Hope	Shreyas Iyer	Tom Latham(wk)	Sikandar Raza	Mehidy Hasan	Alzarri Joseph	Mohammed Siraj	Trent Boult	Adam Zampa
2023^[24]	Rohit Sharma(c)	Shubhman Gill	Travis Head	Virat Kohli	Daryl Mitchell	Heinrich Klassen(wk)	Marco Jansen	Adam Zampa	Mohammad Siraj	Kuldeep Yadav	Mohammad Shami

Superlatives

Appearances by player

Players marked bold are still active in ODI matches and years marked bold indicate they won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:

	Player	Team	Appearances	First XI	12th man	Years
1	MS Dhoni		8	8	0
2	AB de Villiers		7	7	0
	Virat Kohli
3	Rohit Sharma		6	5	1
4	Ricky Ponting		5	5	0
5	Mitchell Starc		4	4	0
	Andrew Flintoff
	Sachin Tendulkar
	Tillakaratne Dilshan
	Kumar Sangakkara
	Trent Boult
	Babar Azam
	Mohammed Shami
6	Adam Gilchrist		3	3	0
	Brett Lee
	Jos Buttler
	Kevin Pietersen
	Ben Stokes
	Virender Sehwag
	Yuvraj Singh
	Daniel Vettori
	Quinton de Kock
	Michael Hussey
	Andrew Symonds
	Shane Watson
	Jacques Kallis
	Lasith Malinga
	Mustafizur Rahman
	Kuldeep Yadav
7	Rashid Khan		2	2	0
	Glenn McGrath
	David Warner
	Jasprit Bumrah
	Ravindra Jadeja
	Shane Bond
	Ross Taylor
	Saeed Ajmal
	Umar Gul
	Hashim Amla
	Dale Steyn
	Ajantha Mendis
	Muttiah Muralitharan
	Chaminda Vaas
	Chris Gayle
	Joe Root
	Imran Tahir
	Shai Hope
	Adam Zampa
	Mohammed Siraj
	Travis Head

Appearances by nation

Country	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2021	2022	2023	Total
	2	1	3	1	2	3	2	4	3	3	4	1	3	3	4	4		2	6	51
	3	4	5	4	5		5	1	2	1	2	2	3	1		1		2	2	43
	2	1		2	1		1	2	1	2	3	3	4	2			2		2	28
	1	1	2	2	1	4		3	2	3	1	2					2			24
	1	2	1	1		2	2	1	2	1		1	1	1	4	2				22
		2			2	1		1	2	1	1			2		1	2	1		16
		1	1	1	1	1	1			1		2		1	1	2		2	1	16
	2			1		1					1		1			1		2		9
												1			1		3	1		6
														1	1					2
																	2			2
																		1		1

• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Men's Cricketer of the Year)
• ICC Men's Test Team of the Year
• ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year
• David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
• ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year

Notes and References

1. Web site: ICC announces official World XI ODI Team of the Year. ESPNcricinfo. 24 March 2020.
2. News: Kallis, Flintoff share player of the year award. ABC News (Australia). 24 March 2020. en.
3. Web site: Ricky Ponting takes top honours at glittering ICC Awards night. ESPNcricinfo. 24 March 2020.
4. Web site: ICC names ODI Team of the Year. ESPNcricinfo. 24 March 2020.
5. News: Chanderpaul tops list of ICC award winners. ABC News (Australia). 24 March 2020. en.
6. Web site: Dhoni leads World ODI Team of the Year. ESPNcricinfo. 24 March 2020.
7. Web site: Ponting named to lead ODI team of the year. ESPNcricinfo. 24 March 2020.
8. Web site: Dhoni leads ODI team of the year. ESPNcricinfo. 25 March 2020.
9. Web site: Dhoni leads ICC ODI team of the year. Indian Express. 25 March 2020.
10. Web site: Dhoni in ODI Team of Year for 5th year in row. Emirates 24/7. 25 March 2020.
11. News: ICC announces Test and ODI Teams of the Year. www.icc-cricket.com. 25 March 2020. en.
12. News: ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2014 announced. www.icc-cricket.com. 25 March 2020. en.
13. News: ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2015 announced. www.icc-cricket.com. 10 September 2018. en.
14. News: ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year announced. www.icc-cricket.com. 25 March 2020. en.
15. News: ICC Awards: Men's Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2017 announced. www.icc-cricket.com. 10 September 2018. en.
16. Web site: Babar Azam, Hasan Ali awarded ICC ODI Team of the Year caps. Geo TV. 10 September 2018.
17. Web site: ICC awards: Virat Kohli wins big three after fantastic 2018. ESPNcricinfo. 22 January 2019.
18. News: ICC announces men's Test and ODI Teams of the Year. www.icc-cricket.com. 25 March 2020. en.
19. News: Stokes wins Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. www.icc-cricket.com. 15 January 2020. en.
20. Web site: Kohli named captain of ICC's ODI and Test teams of the year. The Hindu. 25 March 2020.
21. News: ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year revealed. www.icc-cricket.com. 20 January 2022. en.
22. Web site: Babar Azam named captain of ICC Men's ODI Team of Year 2021, no Indian in final XI. India Today. 20 January 2022.
23. Web site: ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year 2022 revealed . 2023-01-24 . www.icc-cricket.com . en.
24. Web site: World Cup finalists feature in Men's ODI Team of the Year. 2024-01-23 . icc-cricket.com . en.