Steve Smith named ICC Test cricketer of Year for 2015

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Australia captain Steve Smith has been named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year for 2015 at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards ceremony in Dubai. Smith won the prestigious Garfield Sobers Trophy in Australia for the third straight year after pace bowler Mitchell Johnson and his predecessor as skipper, Michael Clarke, won in 2014 and 2013,

Other winners of the ICC awards:

1. ICC Emerging player of the year: Josh Hazlewood (Australia). 
2. Best T20 performance of the year: Faf du Plessis (South Africa)
3. Spirit of Cricket award: Brendon McCullum (New Zealand). 
4. ICC Associate player of the year: Khurram Khan (UAE). 
5. Umpire of the year: Richard Kettleborough (England). 
6. Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Meg Lanning (Australia). 
7. T20I Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Stefanie Taylor (West Indies).

During the voting period,which ran from September 2014 to September 2015, Steve Smith has finished as the leading run-scorer in Tests with 1,734 runs in 25 innings of 13 matches at an average of 82.5, which includes seven centuries and six half-centuries.

In One-Day Internationals format for same voting period, Smith had scored 1,249 runs at an average of just under 60 with four centuries and eight half centuries in 26 matches.South Africa batsman AB de Villiers was rated the best player in the ODIs, winning the award for the second successive year. 

ICC Awards :

The ICC Awards is a set of sports awards for cricket. The awards recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months. The Awards has been institutionalised by International Cricket Council since 2004.