Indian cricket team's veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was nominated for the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year award. Ashwin is the only Indian in the 4-member list alongside two Australian starts who won the ICC World Test Championship Final last year. (More Cricket News)
Ashwin had a great 2023 with the ball in Tests, scalping 41 wickets from 7 Tests. The spinner showed his quality in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 where he plucked 35 wickets in four matches. This nomination is Ashwin's third - he had won the award back in 2016.
However, Ashwin's brilliance did not see him make the cut in the playing XI against Australia in the WTC Final 2023. Apart from the offie, England's Joe Root, Aussie southpaw Usman Khawaja and Travis Head are also part of the nomination list.
ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year 2023, Nominees and Stats
Ravichandran Ashwin (India)
41 wickets in seven matches
Travis Head (Australia)
919 runs in 12 matches
Usman Khawaja (Australia)
1210 runs in 13 matches
Joe Root (England)
787 runs and 8 wickets in 8 matches
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ICC Awards 2023 Nominees
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Pat Cummins (Australia), Travis Head (Australia), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Virat Kohli (India)
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Beth Mooney (Australia), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year; R Ashwin (India), Travis Head (Australia), Usman Khawaja (Australia), Joe Root (England)
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Shubman Gill (India), Virat Kohli (India), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand), Mohammed Shami (India)
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Alpesh Ramjani (Uganda), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), Suryakumar Yadav (India)
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year; Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia)
ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year; Gerald Coetzee (South Africa), Yashasvi Jaiswal (India), Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka), Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)
ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year; Marufa Akter (Bangladesh), Lauren Bell (England), Darcey Carter (Scotland), Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)
