The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".[1] The award began in 1889 with the naming of "Six Great Bowlers of the Year",[2] and continued with the naming of "Nine Great Batsmen of the Year" in 1890 and "6 Great Wicket-Keepers" in 1891.[3]
Since 1897, with a few notable exceptions, the annual award has recognised five players of the year. No players were named in 1916 or 1917, as the First World War prevented any first-class cricket being played in England, while in 1918 and 1919 the recipients were five schoolboy cricketers.[3] From 1941 to 1946, the Second World War caused the same issue and no players were named. Three players have been sole recipients: W. G. Grace (1896), Plum Warner (1921) and Jack Hobbs (1926). The latter two selections are the only exceptions to the rule that a player may receive the award only once. Hobbs was first recognised in 1909, but was selected a second time in 1926 to honour his breaking W. G. Grace's record of 126 first-class hundreds;[4] Warner was first honoured in 1904, but received a second award in 1921 for his last season in first-class cricket, when he led Middlesex to a County Championship win.[4]John Wisden, cricketer and eponymous founder of the almanack, was featured in a special commemorative section in the Jubilee edition of the publication in 1913, 29 years posthumously.[5]
From 2000 to 2003 the award was made based on players' impact on cricket worldwide rather than just the preceding season in England,[3] but the decision was reversed in 2004 with the introduction of a separate Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award.[6]
"Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". Wisden. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Specific
^"Wisden tribute to England stars". BBC Sport. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
^"Wisden – 1889". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
^ abc"Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
^ abAnthony Bradbury. "The first century, 1989 – Wisden's cricketers of the year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
^ abA. S. Dixon. "Cricketers of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008. "Also I have left out of my reckoning John Wisden, founder of the Almanack, to whose memory the whole feature was devoted in the Jubilee issue of 1913—he died in 1884." As such, he is not a true Cricketer of the Year, but is included here for the sake of comprehensiveness.
^"20 things you never knew about Wisden". ESPNcricinfo. 10 April 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
^The 1889 award was subtitled Six Great Bowlers of the Year.
^The 1890 award was subtitled Nine Great Batsmen of the Year.
^The 1891 award was subtitled Five Great Wicket-Keepers.
^The 1893 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year.
^The 1894 award was subtitled Five All-Round Cricketers.
^The 1895 award was subtitled Five Young Batsmen of the Season.
^The 1897 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season.
^The 1899 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Year.
^The 1900 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season.
^The 1901 award was subtitled Mr R. E. Foster and Four Yorkshiremen.
^The 1909 award was subtitled Lord Hawke and Four Cricketers of the Year.
^The 1912 award was subtitled Five Members of the MCC's Team in Australia.
^The 1919 award was subtitled Five Public School Cricketers of the Year.
^The 1920 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year.
^"Wisden – 1997". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008. "The success of Sanath Jayasuriya in inspiring Sri Lanka to World Cup victory [i]n March 1996 also inspired a change of policy: he was chosen as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year even though he did not play in the English season."
^Awarded to a Pakistani player but not listed as a result of alleged match-fixing. "If [the player in question] were exonerated, then it would be possible to reconsider the position," explained [Scyld] Berry. "That's why I didn't pick anyone else instead. But as things stand, we don't feel we can choose him. It's all very sad."
^. Wisden India. 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
External linksedit
Wisden online archive (includes copies of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack essays on each Cricketer of the Year)
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The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers Almanack based primarily on their influence on the previous English season 1 The award began in 1889 with the naming of Six Great Bowlers of the Year 2 and continued with the naming of Nine Great Batsmen of the Year in 1890 and 6 Great Wicket Keepers in 1891 3 Since 1897 with a few notable exceptions the annual award has recognised five players of the year No players were named in 1916 or 1917 as the First World War prevented any first class cricket being played in England while in 1918 and 1919 the recipients were five schoolboy cricketers 3 From 1941 to 1946 the Second World War caused the same issue and no players were named Three players have been sole recipients W G Grace 1896 Plum Warner 1921 and Jack Hobbs 1926 The latter two selections are the only exceptions to the rule that a player may receive the award only once Hobbs was first recognised in 1909 but was selected a second time in 1926 to honour his breaking W G Grace s record of 126 first class hundreds 4 Warner was first honoured in 1904 but received a second award in 1921 for his last season in first class cricket when he led Middlesex to a County Championship win 4 John Wisden cricketer and eponymous founder of the almanack was featured in a special commemorative section in the Jubilee edition of the publication in 1913 29 years posthumously 5 From 2000 to 2003 the award was made based on players impact on cricket worldwide rather than just the preceding season in England 3 but the decision was reversed in 2004 with the introduction of a separate Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award 6 The oldest surviving recipient of the award is Neil Harvey 1954 which he became in February 2022 with the death of Sonny Ramadhin The longest that a recipient has lived after receiving the award is 77 years by Harry Calder 1918 who died in 1995 Calder however uniquely for a male recipient played no first class cricket Among first class players the longest lived after receipt of the award is 74 years by Wilfred Rhodes 1899 Nine women have been chosen Claire Taylor 2009 Charlotte Edwards 2014 Heather Knight 2018 Natalie Sciver 2018 Anya Shrubsole 2018 Tammy Beaumont 2019 Ellyse Perry 2020 Dane van Niekerk 2022 and Harmanpreet Kaur 2023 Contents 1 List of Cricketers of the Year 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksList of Cricketers of the Year edit nbsp George Lohmann an inaugural nominee 1889 nbsp W G Grace sole recipient of the honour 1896 nbsp Jack Hobbs l and Herbert Sutcliffe Hobbs was honoured in both 1909 and 1926 Sutcliffe in 1920 nbsp Sir Donald Bradman recognised in 1931 nbsp The Invincibles took all five awards in 1949 Don Tallon was their wicket keeper nbsp Viv Richards recognised in 1977 nbsp Imran Khan recognised in 1983 nbsp Waqar Younis recognised in 1992 nbsp Muttiah Muralitharan recognised in 1999 nbsp Rahul Dravid recognised in 2000 nbsp Adam Gilchrist recognised in 2002 nbsp Claire Taylor in 2009 became the first woman to be recognised nbsp Kumar Sangakkara recognised in 2012Year Recipient s 1889 7 George Lohmann Johnny Briggs John Ferris Charles Turner Sammy Woods Bobby Peel1890 8 Bobby Abel Billy Barnes Billy Gunn Louis Hall Robert Henderson Maurice Read Arthur Shrewsbury Frank Sugg Albert Ward1891 9 Jack Blackham Gregor MacGregor Dick Pilling Mordecai Sherwin Henry Wood1892 10 William Attewell J T Hearne Frederick Martin Arthur Mold John Sharpe1893 11 Herbie Hewett Lionel Palairet Walter Read Stanley Scott Andrew Stoddart1894 12 George Giffen Alec Hearne Stanley Jackson Harry Trott Ted Wainwright1895 13 Bill Brockwell Jack Brown C B Fry Tom Hayward Archie MacLaren1896 W G Grace1897 14 Syd Gregory Dick Lilley Ranjitsinhji Tom Richardson Hugh Trumble1898 Frederick Bull Willis Cuttell Frank Druce Gilbert Jessop Jack Mason1899 15 Wilfred Rhodes William Storer Charlie Townsend Albert Trott William Lockwood1900 16 Joe Darling Clem Hill Arthur Jones Monty Noble Robert Poore1901 17 Tip Foster Schofield Haigh George Herbert Hirst Tom Taylor John Tunnicliffe1902 Len Braund Charlie McGahey Frank Mitchell Willie Quaife Johnny Tyldesley1903 Warwick Armstrong Cuthbert Burnup James Iremonger Jim Kelly Victor Trumper1904 Colin Blythe John Gunn Albert Knight Walter Mead Plum Warner1905 Bernard Bosanquet Ernest Halliwell James Hallows Percy Perrin Reggie Spooner1906 David Denton Walter Lees George Thompson Joe Vine Levi Wright1907 Jack Crawford Arthur Fielder Ernie Hayes Kenneth Hutchings Neville Knox1908 Albert Hallam Reggie Schwarz Frank Tarrant Bert Vogler Thomas Wass1909 18 Walter Brearley Lord Hawke Jack Hobbs Alan Marshal John Newstead1910 Warren Bardsley Sydney Barnes Douglas Carr Arthur Day Vernon Ransford1911 Harry Foster Alfred Hartley Charlie Llewellyn Razor Smith Frank Woolley1912 19 Frank Foster J W Hearne Sep Kinneir Phil Mead Herbert Strudwick1913 John Wisden 5 1914 Major Booth George Gunn Bill Hitch Albert Relf Lionel Tennyson1915 Johnny Douglas Percy Fender Wally Hardinge Donald Knight Sydney Smith1918 Harry Calder John Firth Clement Gibson Gerard Rotherham Greville Stevens1919 20 Percy Adams Percy Chapman Adrian Gore Lionel Hedges Norman Partridge1920 21 Andy Ducat Patsy Hendren Percy Holmes Herbert Sutcliffe Ernest Tyldesley1921 Pelham Warner1922 Hubert Ashton Jack Bryan Jack Gregory Charlie Macartney Ted McDonald1923 Arthur Carr Tich Freeman Charlie Parker Jack Russell Andy Sandham1924 Arthur Gilligan Roy Kilner George Macaulay Cec Parkin Maurice Tate1925 Bob Catterall Jack MacBryan Herbie Taylor Dick Tyldesley William Whysall1926 Jack Hobbs1927 George Geary Harold Larwood Jack Mercer Bert Oldfield Bill Woodfull1928 Roger Blunt Charlie Hallows Wally Hammond Douglas Jardine Vallance Jupp1929 Les Ames George Duckworth Maurice Leyland Sam Staples Jack White1930 Ted Bowley Duleepsinhji Tuppy Owen Smith Walter Robins Bob Wyatt1931 Donald Bradman Clarrie Grimmett Beverley Lyon Ian Peebles Maurice Turnbull1932 Bill Bowes Stewie Dempster James Langridge Nawab of Pataudi senior Hedley Verity1933 Ewart Astill Freddie Brown Alec Kennedy C K Nayudu Bill Voce1934 Fred Bakewell George Headley Stan Nichols Leslie Townsend Cyril Walters1935 Stan McCabe Bill O Reilly George Paine Bill Ponsford Jim Smith1936 Jock Cameron Errol Holmes Bruce Mitchell Denis Smith Arthur Wellard1937 Charlie Barnett Bill Copson Alf Gover Vijay Merchant Stan Worthington1938 Tom Goddard Joe Hardstaff Jr Len Hutton Jim Parks Sr Eddie Paynter1939 Hugh Bartlett Bill Brown Denis Compton Kenneth Farnes Arthur Wood1940 Learie Constantine Bill Edrich Walter Keeton Brian Sellers Doug Wright1947 Alec Bedser Laurie Fishlock Vinoo Mankad Peter Smith Cyril Washbrook1948 Martin Donnelly Alan Melville Dudley Nourse Jack Robertson Norman Yardley1949 Lindsay Hassett Bill Johnston Ray Lindwall Arthur Morris Don Tallon1950 Trevor Bailey Roly Jenkins John Langridge Reg Simpson Bert Sutcliffe1951 Godfrey Evans Sonny Ramadhin Alf Valentine Everton Weekes Frank Worrell1952 Bob Appleyard Tom Dollery Jim Laker Peter May Eric Rowan1953 Harold Gimblett Tom Graveney David Sheppard Stuart Surridge Fred Trueman1954 Neil Harvey Tony Lock Keith Miller Johnny Wardle Willie Watson1955 Bruce Dooland Fazal Mahmood Eric Hollies Brian Statham George Tribe1956 Colin Cowdrey Doug Insole Jackie McGlew Hugh Tayfield Frank Tyson1957 Dennis Brookes Jim Burke Malcolm Hilton Gil Langley Peter Richardson1958 Peter Loader Arthur McIntyre Collie Smith Mickey Stewart Clyde Walcott1959 Les Jackson Roy Marshall Arthur Milton John Reid Derek Shackleton1960 Ken Barrington Donald Carr Ray Illingworth Geoff Pullar M J K Smith1961 Neil Adcock Ted Dexter Roy McLean Raman Subba Row Vic Wilson1962 Bill Alley Richie Benaud Alan Davidson Bill Lawry Norm O Neill1963 Don Kenyon Mushtaq Mohammad Peter Parfitt Phil Sharpe Fred Titmus1964 Brian Close Charlie Griffith Conrad Hunte Rohan Kanhai Garfield Sobers1965 Geoffrey Boycott Peter Burge Jack Flavell Graham McKenzie Bob Simpson1966 Colin Bland John Edrich Dick Motz Peter Pollock Graeme Pollock1967 Bob Barber Basil D Oliveira Colin Milburn John Murray Seymour Nurse1968 Asif Iqbal Hanif Mohammad Ken Higgs Jim Parks junior Nawab of Pataudi junior1969 Jimmy Binks David Green Barry Richards Derek Underwood Ossie Wheatley1970 Basil Butcher Alan Knott Majid Khan Mike Procter Don Shepherd1971 Jack Bond Clive Lloyd Brian Luckhurst Glenn Turner Roy Virgin1972 Geoff Arnold Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Lance Gibbs Brian Taylor Zaheer Abbas1973 Greg Chappell Dennis Lillee Bob Massie John Snow Keith Stackpole1974 Keith Boyce Bevan Congdon Keith Fletcher Roy Fredericks Peter Sainsbury1975 Dennis Amiss Mike Denness Norman Gifford Tony Greig Andy Roberts1976 Ian Chappell Peter Lee Rick McCosker David Steele Bob Woolmer1977 Mike Brearley Gordon Greenidge Michael Holding Viv Richards Bob Taylor1978 Ian Botham Mike Hendrick Alan Jones Ken McEwan Bob Willis1979 David Gower John Lever Chris Old Clive Radley John Shepherd1980 Joel Garner Sunil Gavaskar Graham Gooch Derek Randall Brian Rose1981 Kim Hughes Robin Jackman Allan Lamb Clive Rice Vintcent van der Bijl1982 Terry Alderman Allan Border Richard Hadlee Javed Miandad Rod Marsh1983 Imran Khan Trevor Jesty Alvin Kallicharran Kapil Dev Malcolm Marshall1984 Mohinder Amarnath Jeremy Coney John Emburey Mike Gatting Chris Smith1985 Martin Crowe Larry Gomes Geoff Humpage Jack Simmons Sidath Wettimuny1986 Phil Bainbridge Richard Ellison Craig McDermott Neal Radford Tim Robinson1987 John Childs Graeme Hick Dilip Vengsarkar Courtney Walsh James Whitaker1988 Jonathan Agnew Neil Foster David Hughes Peter Roebuck Saleem Malik1989 Kim Barnett Jeff Dujon Phil Neale Franklyn Stephenson Steve Waugh1990 Jimmy Cook Dean Jones Jack Russell Robin Smith Mark Taylor1991 Mike Atherton Mohammad Azharuddin Alan Butcher Desmond Haynes Mark Waugh1992 Curtly Ambrose Phillip DeFreitas Allan Donald Richie Richardson Waqar Younis1993 Nigel Briers Martyn Moxon Ian Salisbury Alec Stewart Wasim Akram1994 David Boon Ian Healy Merv Hughes Shane Warne Steve Watkin1995 Brian Lara Devon Malcolm Tim Munton Steve Rhodes Kepler Wessels1996 Dominic Cork Aravinda de Silva Angus Fraser Anil Kumble Dermot Reeve1997 Sanath Jayasuriya 22 Mushtaq Ahmed Saeed Anwar Phil Simmons Sachin Tendulkar1998 Matthew Elliott Stuart Law Glenn McGrath Matthew Maynard Graham Thorpe1999 Ian Austin Darren Gough Muttiah Muralitharan Arjuna Ranatunga Jonty Rhodes2000 Chris Cairns Rahul Dravid Lance Klusener Tom Moody Saqlain Mushtaq2001 Mark Alleyne Martin Bicknell Andrew Caddick Justin Langer Darren Lehmann2002 Andy Flower Adam Gilchrist Jason Gillespie V V S Laxman Damien Martyn2003 Matthew Hayden Adam Hollioake Nasser Hussain Shaun Pollock Michael Vaughan2004 Chris Adams Andrew Flintoff Ian Harvey Gary Kirsten Graeme Smith2005 Ashley Giles Steve Harmison Robert Key Andrew Strauss Marcus Trescothick2006 Matthew Hoggard Simon Jones Brett Lee Kevin Pietersen Ricky Ponting2007 Paul Collingwood Mahela Jayawardene Mohammed Yousuf Monty Panesar Mark Ramprakash2008 Ian Bell Shivnarine Chanderpaul Ottis Gibson Zaheer Khan Ryan Sidebottom2009 James Anderson Dale Benkenstein Mark Boucher Neil McKenzie Claire Taylor2010 Stuart Broad Michael Clarke Graham Onions Matt Prior Graeme Swann2011 Tamim Iqbal Eoin Morgan Chris Read Jonathan Trott Not awarded 23 2012 Tim Bresnan Alastair Cook Glen Chapple Alan Richardson Kumar Sangakkara2013 Nick Compton Hashim Amla Jacques Kallis Dale Steyn Marlon Samuels2014 24 Shikhar Dhawan Charlotte Edwards Ryan Harris Chris Rogers Joe Root2015 Moeen Ali Gary Ballance Adam Lyth Angelo Mathews Jeetan Patel2016 Jonny Bairstow Brendon McCullum Steve Smith Ben Stokes Kane Williamson2017 Ben Duckett Younis Khan Misbah ul Haq Toby Roland Jones Chris Woakes2018 Shai Hope Heather Knight Jamie Porter Natalie Sciver Anya Shrubsole2019 Tammy Beaumont Rory Burns Jos Buttler Sam Curran Virat Kohli2020 Jofra Archer Pat Cummins Simon Harmer Marnus Labuschagne Ellyse Perry2021 Zak Crawley Jason Holder Mohammad Rizwan Dom Sibley Darren Stevens2022 Jasprit Bumrah Devon Conway Ollie Robinson Rohit Sharma Dane van Niekerk2023 Tom Blundell Ben Foakes Harmanpreet Kaur Daryl Mitchell Matthew PottsSee also editWisden Leading Cricketer in the World Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World Six Giants of the Wisden Century Wisden Australia s Cricketer of the Year Wisden Cricketers of the Century ICC AwardsReferences editGeneral Wisden s Five Cricketers of the Year Wisden Retrieved 10 April 2013 Specific Wisden tribute to England stars BBC Sport 6 April 2005 Retrieved 7 April 2008 Wisden 1889 ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 7 April 2008 a b c Wisden s Five Cricketers of the Year ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 7 April 2008 a b Anthony Bradbury The first century 1989 Wisden s cricketers of the year ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 17 April 2008 a b A S Dixon Cricketers of the Year ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 7 April 2008 Also I have left out of my reckoning John Wisden founder of the Almanack to whose memory the whole feature was devoted in the Jubilee issue of 1913 he died in 1884 As such he is not a true Cricketer of the Year but is included here for the sake of comprehensiveness 20 things you never knew about Wisden ESPNcricinfo 10 April 2006 Retrieved 7 April 2008 The 1889 award was subtitled Six Great Bowlers of the Year The 1890 award was subtitled Nine Great Batsmen of the Year The 1891 award was subtitled Five Great Wicket Keepers The 1892 award was subtitled Five Great Bowlers The 1893 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year The 1894 award was subtitled Five All Round Cricketers The 1895 award was subtitled Five Young Batsmen of the Season The 1897 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season The 1899 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Year The 1900 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season The 1901 award was subtitled Mr R E Foster and Four Yorkshiremen The 1909 award was subtitled Lord Hawke and Four Cricketers of the Year The 1912 award was subtitled Five Members of the MCC s Team in Australia The 1919 award was subtitled Five Public School Cricketers of the Year The 1920 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year Wisden 1997 ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 7 April 2008 The success of Sanath Jayasuriya in inspiring Sri Lanka to World Cup victory i n March 1996 also inspired a change of policy he was chosen as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year even though he did not play in the English season Awarded to a Pakistani player but not listed as a result of alleged match fixing If the player in question were exonerated then it would be possible to reconsider the position explained Scyld Berry That s why I didn t pick anyone else instead But as things stand we don t feel we can choose him It s all very sad Wisden honour for Dhawan Edwards Wisden India 9 April 2014 Archived from the original on 12 April 2014 Retrieved 9 April 2014 External links editWisden online archive includes copies of the Wisden 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