Travis Head has gained the 2025 Allan Border Medal as Australia’s prime male cricketer of the previous 12 months.
At the moment on the Take a look at tour of Sri Lanka, Head accepted the distinguished award on the Australian workforce’s beachside resort 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 say a primary Allan Border Medal and he turned the primary South Australian to obtain the honour.
Take a look at and One Day Worldwide captain Pat Cummins appeared his closest competitors, having been named skipper of the ICC’s Take a look at workforce of the 12 months 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 evening Cricket Australia operate in Melbourne.
Star all-rounder Annabel Sutherland, who tore England aside final week with a powerful ton of their lopsided Ashes Take a look at, 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 Checks performed by the Australian ladies within the voting interval over the previous 12 months, most lately scoring 163 on the MCG because the hosts capped their Ashes whitewash.
The daughter of former Cricket Australia chief govt James Sutherland and sister of Victorian star Will Sutherland is the primary lady to attain a Take a look at ton on the MCG.
In February final 12 months, Sutherland scored 210 within the Take a look at towards South Africa on the WACA.
The additional weighting for the Take a look at votes proved the distinction for Sutherland. It’s the first time she has gained 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 Take a look at sensation Sam Konstas was named the Bradman younger males’s cricketer of the 12 months.
West Australian Chloe Ainsworth gained 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 lads’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 Take a look at sequence towards 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 Take a look at match on the Adelaide Oval towards India was an plain spotlight for Head, and helped reignite Australia’s sequence after their dismal loss within the first match in Perth.
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