Stokes: smash!

Test batting winner: England's No. 6 could scarcely have done more damage in Cape Town if he were an angry green giant


Stuart Broad, serial destroyer

Test bowling winner: Few other modern bowlers can slide into a wrecking groove as smoothly as he does, as Joburg 2016 showed


Free of non-violence

ODI batting winner: Quinton de Kock's 178 signalled the whitewash of Australia that was to come


Guess who's back

ODI bowling winner: Sunil Narine returned in 2016, and how


Remember the name!

T20I batting winner: In the space of four balls, Carlos Brathwaite went from relative anonymity to cricket superstar


The Fizz brings the balm

T20I bowling winner: Mustafizur Rahman brought a no-consequence match to life with an electrifying display of bowling skill


The man who demands

Captain of the year: Unlike his predecessors as India captain, Virat Kohli asks his team for top-drawer performances every single time


The kid who could

Debutant of the year: Mehedi Hasan made the transition from junior cricket to the biggest stage with a bang


Right, said Mo

Associate batting winner: Mohammad Shahzad's swashbuckling century secured his side's fourth series win over Zimbabwe in three months


Nabi's binary masterpiece

Associate bowling winner: In a miserly bowling display, the Afghan offspinner helped turn over the hosts in Mirpur


An 18-year-old world champion

Women's batting winner: Hayley Matthews grew up at the Women's World T20 final


Lucky number three

Women's bowling winner: Multiple-stopover flights did not stop Leigh Kasperek from downing Australia yet again


Kohli in a league of his own

Statsguru Awards: India's ace batsman dominates across formats in a dream year

Jury
  • Main awards jury
  • SAMBIT BAL
    Editor-in-chief, ESPNcricinfo
  • Daniel Brettig
    Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo
  • MARK BUTCHER
    Former England batsman,commentator
  • IAN CHAPPELL
    Former Australia captain, commentator
  • AAKASH CHOPRA
    Former India batsman; commentator
  • DARYLL CULLINAN
    Former South Africa batsman; commentator
  • GEORGE DOBELL
    Senior UK correspondent, ESPNcricinfo
  • ANDREW FERNANDO
    Sri Lanka correspondent, ESPNcricinfo
  • MOHAMMAD ISAM
    Bangladesh correspondent, ESPNcricinfo
  • MAHELA JAYAWARDENE
    Former Sri Lanka captain
  • SIDHARTH MONGA
    Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo
  • FIRDOSE MOONDA
    South Africa correspondent, ESPNcricinfo
  • MARK NICHOLAS
    Former Hampshire captain; TV presenter and commentator
  • IAIN O'BRIEN
    Former New Zealand fast bowler
  • RAMIZ RAJA
    Former Pakistan captain, commentator
  • OSMAN SAMIUDDIN
    Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo
  • SIMON TAUFEL
    Former International Elite Panel umpire
  • COURTNEY WALSH
    Former West Indies captain, Bangladesh bowling coach
  • Associates awards jury
  • KYLE MCCALLAN
    Former Ireland offspinner
  • PETER DELLA PENNA
    USA correspondent, ESPNcricinfo
  • TIM WIGMORE
    Journalist, Author of Second XI: Cricket in its Outposts
  • Women's awards jury
  • ISA GUHA
    Former England bowler; commentator
  • MELINDA FARRELL
    Correspondent and producer, ESPNcricinfo
  • RAF NICHOLSON
    Women's cricket journalist and historian

About The Awards

The ESPNcricinfo Awards recognise the best individual batting and bowling performances in cricket over the calendar year. They are voted on by an independent jury of former cricketers, commentators, and ESPNcricinfo's senior writers. Previous winners have included Dale Steyn, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, Shahid Afridi and Kumar Sangakkara.

Statsguru Awards

Which batsman was the most consistent over the year? Who was the best bowler in the third and fourth innings? ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball data analysis of every international game has answers to these queries and more. The Statsguru Awards go beyond runs scored, wickets taken, or averages, and are the result of detailed data analyses of performances.