England’s Ben Stokes and Nat Sciver win ICC annual awards

• England Test captain Ben Stokes and England all-rounder Nat Sciver are among the winners in the International Cricket Council’s annual awards.
• All-rounder Stokes has been named ‘Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year’ while Sciver won the ‘ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year’ award.
• Sciver, 30, is also named Women’s one-day international (ODI) Cricketer of the Year.
• The 31-year-old Ben Stokes took over the Test captaincy from Joe Root in April 2022 and has won nine of his 10 Tests in charge.
• Stokes previously won the overall Men’s Cricketer of the Year award in 2019.

ICC annual awards:

1. Men’s T20 Cricketer of the Year: Suryakumar Yadav, India
2. Men’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Marco Jansen, South Africa
3. Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Nat Sciver, England
4. Women’s T20 Cricketer of the Year: Tahlia McGrath, Australia
5. Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Renuka Singh, India