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Cricket Australia: Annabel Sutherland and Travis Head win Belinda Clark Award and Allan Border Medal

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Cricket Australia (CA), formerly the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for cricket in Australia. Established in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket, CA manages all national teams, including Men's, Women's, and Youth sides, as well as other national teams. It oversees the organization of Test matches, ODIs, and T20Is, and coordinates home international fixtures.

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Annabel Sutherland and Travis Head have taken top honours at the Australian Cricket Awards in Melbourne tonight winning the prestigious Belinda Clark Award and Allan Border Medal respectively. 

At a ceremony which celebrated an incredible year of results for Australia’s women’s and men’s teams, Sutherland won her first Belinda Clark Award, less than a week after scoring a century in the CommBank Women’s Ashes Test against England at the MCG. 

Sutherland was outstanding in all formats throughout a season in which the Australia completed a summer sweep, with series victories against India, New Zealand and England without losing a match. 

A member of the ICC ODI Team of the Year, Sutherland was also outstanding in the two Test matches Australia played. She scored 210 against South Africa in Perth at the end of last season before becoming the first woman to hit a Test century at the MCG in a Player of the Match performance against England. 

Across all formats, Sutherland scored 798 runs at 46.94 and took 34 wickets at 20.82.  

In the Belinda Clark Award, Sutherland polled 168 votes ahead of runner-up Ashleigh Gardner (143) with Beth Mooney (115) in third place.  

Head’s first Allan Border Medal capped a wonderful year in which the South Australian’s attacking batting played a crucial role in Australia’s successful year.  

Across all formats, Head scored 1427 runs at an average of 43.24 with five half-centuries and four hundreds.  

In the Allan Border Medal, Head polled 208 votes with Josh Hazlewood (158 votes) and Pat Cummins (147 votes) in second and third place.  

Gardner took out the Women’s ODI Player of the Year Award after scoring 385 runs at an average of 38.5 and taking 23 wickets at 15.52 in the voting period.  

Mooney’s consistency with the bat saw her take out the T20I Player of the Year award, scoring 618 runs at an average of 47.53 with a strike rate of 129.83. 
 
Hazlewood won the Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year Award by taking 30 wickets at an incredible average of just 13.17, with two five wicket hauls. 

Head won the Men’s ODI Player of the Year Award, edging out Alex Carey off the back of a dominant performance in Australia’s Tour of the United Kingdom. The highlight came when Head scored an unbeaten 154 off 129 balls in the first ODI at Nottingham to lead Australia to victory.
   
Adam Zampa took out the Men’s T20 International Player of the Year after a consistent year that included the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA. Zampa took 35 wickets, 14 more than anyone else, at an average of 17.2.
   
Melbourne Stars’ Glenn Maxwell and Perth Scorchers’ Cooper Connolly were joint winners of the KFC BBL|14 Player of the Tournament, while Sydney Sixers’ Ellyse Perry and Brisbane Heat’s Jess Jonassen also tied as winners of Weber WBBL|10 Player of the Tournament. The awards consider each competition’s home and away season matches and are voted by the standing umpires in each match. 

Maxwell finished as the fourth-highest run scorer, scoring 297 runs as at an incredible strike rate of 194.12, while the 21-year-old Connolly averaged over 50 with the bat and regularly anchored the Scorchers innings. 

Sydney Sixers’ Ellyse Perry topped the run-scorers list with 424 runs at an average of 53 and was named in the WBBL Team of the Tournament for the sixth time. Jess Jonassen led Brisbane Heat to the WBBL Final, taking 14 wickets at 18 as well as scoring 174 runs at an average of 34 with four unbeaten knocks in nine innings. 

Cameron Green was voted the winner of the Community Impact Award after dedicating over 100 hours to the Chronic Kidney Disease cause. Green has been a leading Ambassador for Kidney Health Australia, sharing his own battles with kidney disease to raise awareness and reach younger audiences who may have never considered the condition or been tested. 

Frankie Mountney from South Launceston Cricket Club was named Woolworths Cricket Blaster of the Year which celebrates the spirt of the game, teamwork and the joy of playing in Australian Cricket’s entry-level programme. Born deaf and wearing bilateral cochlear implants, Frankie is always smiling, practicing and having fun along the way. A pace bowler, she is also known to cartwheel her way back to her position on the field.  

FULL LIST OF AWARD WINNERS 

Belinda Clark Award – Annabel Sutherland (168 votes) 
2nd: Ashleigh Gardner (143 votes) 
3rd: Beth Mooney (115 votes) 
 
Allan Border Medal – Travis Head (208 votes) 
2nd: Josh Hazlewood (158 votes)
3rd: Pat Cummins (147 votes)
 
Women’s ODI Player of the Year – Ashleigh Gardner

Women’s T20I Player of the Year – Beth Mooney

Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year – Josh Hazlewood

Men’s ODI Player of the Year – Travis Head

Men’s T20I Player of the Year – Adam Zampa

Weber WBBL | 10 Player of the Tournament – Ellyse Perry and Jess Jonassen

KFC BBL | 14 Player of the Tournament – Glenn Maxwell and Cooper Connolly

Women’s Domestic Player of the Year – Georgia Voll

Men’s Domestic Player of the Year – Beau Webster

Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year – Chloe Ainsworth

Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year – Sam Konstas

Community Impact Award – Cameron Green

Woolworths Cricket Blaster of the Year – Frankie Mountney

Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees – Michael Clarke, Christina Matthews and Michael Bevan 
 
VOTING FRAMEWORK 
 
The awards for international cricket are based on votes from players, umpires and the media on a 3-2-1 basis from each match.  
   
For the domestic awards, the votes are collected from players.  
   
To be eligible for the Young Cricketer of the Year awards, players must be 24 years or less prior to the commencement of the award period and have not won the award previously.  
   
Prior to the award period, male players must have played 10 or less first-class matches and 25 or less combined List A and BBL matches and female players 25 or less matches. 

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