Test batting performance of the year
Che stays, Che slays
Or how Pujara won India the series in Australia
Test bowling performance of the year
Boom. Hurrah
Jasprit Bumrah brought a seemingly dead pitch alive in Melbourne to give India a historic win
ODI batting performance of the year
Tayls can't fail
Beware the wounded Rossco - as England found out to their peril
ODI bowling performance of the year
The riddler
Not many in England had seen the likes of Kuldeep Yadav in action before, and it showed in the way they played him
T20I batting performance of the year
Max of all trades
He had already dented England with a three-wicket haul, but that wasn't enough heroics in one day for Glenn Maxwell
T20I bowling performance of the year
The unread and the dead
Kuldeep bamboozled England's strong batting line-up with indecipherable deliveries
Women's batting performance of the year
The Harmonster reboot
Harmanpreet Kaur's record hundred blindsided New Zealand in the very first match of the Women's World T20
Women's bowling performance of the year
Nat finds her rhythm
Natalie Sciver's three wickets and 20 dot balls helped book England's berth in the World T20 semi-final
Captain of the year
Last woman standing
Meg Lanning's Australians blew away everyone in their path in 2018
Debutant of the year
Can bat, can bowl, can turn games
Young Sam Curran made decisive contributions in Tests for England all through 2018
Associate batting performance of the year
Keep Calum and carry on
Scotland's historic ODI upset of England had a chief architect
Associate bowling performance of the year
Saffy cuts a swath
Scotland's one-man demolition squad almost got them their second ever win over Zimbabwe
Jury
- Main awards jury
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AJIT AGARKAR
Former India bowler; commentator -
RUSSEL ARNOLD
Former Sri Lanka allrounder; commentator -
SAMBIT BAL
Editor-in-chief, ESPNcricinfo -
Daniel Brettig
Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo -
MARK BUTCHER
Former England batsman,commentator -
IAN CHAPPELL
Former Australia captain, commentator -
DARYLL CULLINAN
Former South Africa batsman; commentator -
ANDREW FERNANDO
Sri Lanka correspondent, ESPNcricinfo -
MOHAMMAD ISAM
Bangladesh correspondent, ESPNcricinfo -
ANDREW MILLER
UK editor, ESPNcricinfo
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SIDHARTH MONGA
Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo -
FIRDOSE MOONDA
South Africa correspondent, ESPNcricinfo -
SHAHRIAR NAFEES
Former Bangladesh batsman -
MARK NICHOLAS
Former Hampshire captain; TV presenter and commentator -
RAMIZ RAJA
Former Pakistan captain, commentator -
OSMAN SAMIUDDIN
Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo -
PHIL SIMMONS
Former Zimbabwe and Ireland coach; current Afghanistan coach -
SIMON TAUFEL
Former International Elite Panel umpire -
COURTNEY WALSH
Former West Indies captain, Bangladesh bowling coach
- Associates awards jury
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PETER BORREN
Former Netherlands captain -
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
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ISA GUHA
Former England bowler; commentator -
MELINDA FARRELL
Correspondent and producer, ESPNcricinfo -
RAF NICHOLSON
Women's cricket journalist and historian -
SNEHAL PRADHAN
Former India bowler; journalist
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.