| ICC Award for Best Men's Cricketer | |
| Presenter: | ICC |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Year2: | 2023 |
| Holder: | Pat Cummins (1st award) |
| Most Awards: | Ricky Ponting Mitchell Johnson Virat Kohli (2 awards each) |
| Website: | ICC Awards |
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".[1]
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.
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | § | Indicates individual was shortlisted |
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| scope=col width=5% | Year | scope=col width=10% class=unsortable | Image | scope=col width=20% | Winner | scope=col width=15% | Team | scope=col width=25% | Nominees | scope=col class=unsortable width=20% | Notes | scope=col width=5% class=unsortable | Ref(s) |
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| 2004 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year | [2] [3] | ||||||||||
| 2005 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year and selected as 12th man for the ODI Team of the Year | [4] [5] [6] | ||||||||||
| scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | [7] [8] | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | [9] [10] | |||||||||||
| 2008 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year | [11] | ||||||||||
| 2009 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year | [12] [13] | ||||||||||
| 2010 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | [14] [15] [16] | ||||||||||
| 2011 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year | [17] [18] | ||||||||||
| 2012 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | [19] [20] | ||||||||||
| 2013 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year | [21] [22] | ||||||||||
| 2014 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year | [23] [24] | ||||||||||
| 2015 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year and named in the ODI Team of the Year | [25] | ||||||||||
| 2016 | scope=row | Also named Test Player of the Year | [26] | ||||||||||
| 2017 | Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year | [27] | |||||||||||
| 2018 | Also named Test Player of the Year, named captain of the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year | [28] | |||||||||||
| 2019 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and ODI Team of the Year | [29] | ||||||||||
| 2021 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year and T20I Team of the Year | [30] | ||||||||||
| 2022 | scope=row | Also named in the Test Team of the Year, named ODI Player of the Year and captain of the ODI Team of the Year | [31] | ||||||||||
| 2023 | scope=row | Pat Cummins | Also named captain of the Test Team of the Year | [32] |
| Player | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Ricky Ponting | 2 (2006, 2007) | |
| Mitchell Johnson | 2 (2009, 2014) | |
| Virat Kohli | 2 (2017, 2018) | |
| Rahul Dravid | 1 (2004) | |
| Jacques Kallis | 1 (2005) | |
| Andrew Flintoff | 1 (2005) | |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul | 1 (2008) | |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 1 (2010) | |
| Jonathan Trott | 1 (2011) | |
| Kumar Sangakkara | 1 (2012) | |
| Michael Clarke | 1 (2013) | |
| Steve Smith | 1 (2015) | |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 1 (2016) | |
| Ben Stokes | 1 (2019) | |
| Shaheen Afridi | 1 (2021) | |
| Babar Azam | 1 (2022) | |
| Pat Cummins | 1 (2023) |
| Country | Players | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 |