ICC One Day International Player of the Year Award

ICC Award for Best Player
Awarded for	Best Performance by a Player in ODI Cricket
Presented by	ICC
First awarded	2004
Currently held by	Virat Kohli

The ICC One-day Player of the Year is an annual award presented since 2004 by the International Cricket Council to the best One Day International player.

The trophy is handcrafted by leading international crystal manufacturer Swarovski. The design features a red crystal cricket ball studded with over 4200 Swarovski crystal chantons, resting on a brass hand extended from a gold-plated base.

Selection

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.

Superlatives

Superlative	ICC Player of the Year		ICC Test Player of The Year		ICC ODI Player of The Year		Overall
Player with most awards	Ricky Ponting	2	Sachin Tendulkar	3	AB de Villiers	3	Kumar Sangakkara	4
Player with most nominations	Ricky Ponting Shivnarine Chanderpaul	3	Jacques Kallis Ricky Ponting	3	MS Dhoni	4	Ricky Ponting	7
Player with most nominations (without ever winning)	Hashim Amla	3	Mahela Jayawardene Muttiah Muralitharan Shivnarine Chanderpaul	2	Sachin Tendulkar Muttiah Muralitharan	3	Muttiah Muralitharan	6
Oldest winner	Sachin Tendulkar	37	Mohammad Yousuf	33	Matthew Hayden	36	Sachin Tendulkar	37
Youngest winner	Andrew Flintoff	27	Dale Steyn	25	Virat Kohli	23	Virat Kohli	23

List of Winners

2004

• Winner: Sachin Tendulkar
• Andrew Flintoff
• Abdul Razzaq
• Ricky Ponting
• Muttiah Muralitharan

2005

• Winners: Kevin Pietersen^[1]
• Andrew Flintoff
• Adam Gilchrist
• Brett Lee
• Andrew Symonds

2006

• Winner: Michael Hussey
• Shahid Afridi
• Kevin Pietersen
• Muttiah Muralitharan
• Shane Bond

2007

• Winner: Matthew Hayden^[2]
• Mohammed Yousuf
• Brett Lee
• Muttiah Muralitharan
• Mahela Jayawardene

2008

• Winner:MS Dhoni^[3]
• Mohammed Yousuf
• Nathan Bracken
• Sachin Tendulkar

2009

• Winner:MS Dhoni
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
• Virender Sehwag
• Yuvraj Singh
• Umar Gul

2010

• Winner: AB de Villiers
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Shane Watson
• Ryan Harris

2011

• Winner: Kumar Sangakkara
• Hashim Amla
• Gautam Gambhir
• Shane Watson

2012

• Winner: Virat Kohli
• MS Dhoni
• Lasith Malinga
• Kumar Sangakkara

2013

• Winner: Kumar Sangakkara
• MS Dhoni
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Saeed Ajmal
• Misbah-ul-Haq

2014

• Winner: AB de Villiers
• Virat Kohli
• Quinton de Kock
• Dale Steyn

"'2015"'

• Winner: "'AB de Villiers"'

References

1. "Flintoff named joint ICC player of the year". Daily Mail. 11 October 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
2. "Ricky Ponting is ICC Cricketer of the Year". Herald Sun. 11 September 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
3. "Chanderpaul tops list of ICC award winners". ABC News (Australia). 11 September 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2011.