Rishabh Pant voted emerging player of the year.
Indian U19 side went undefeated in the competition and faced Australia in the finals. India chased down 216 in style with Manjot Kalra hitting 101* and captain Prithvi Shaw lifting the trophy, giving India its fourth U19 World Cup victory.
Afghanistan’s miraculous comeback in the ICC 2019 World Cup qualifiers came in second in the voting for the fans’ moment award.
Aaron Finch, own the T20I performance of the year award for his world record 172 against Zimbabwe in Harare. Finch broke his own record of 156 and hit 10 sixes and 16 fours, a total of 26 boundaries, another world record, in a whirlwind innings.
Calum Macleod from Scotland won the ICC Associate Player of the Year, for his brilliant knocks of 157* against Afghanistan in the World Cup Qualifiers and 140 against England, which handed Scotland their maiden ODI win over their neighbors.
The Spirit of Cricket Award went to Kane Williamson, the Kiwi captain for his continued commitment to playing the game in the right spirit and as a role model to the whole sport.
Williamson said: “We are all ambassadors of this game, so playing in the right spirit, those sorts of characteristics are really important even at the highest level. It is a nice award. It is important for us as a group that we keep looking to do better in all areas, and one of those areas is to continue playing the game in the right way, as how we see it being right.”
Umpire of the Year went to Sri Lanka’s Kumar Dharmasena and he won the David Shepherd Trophy for the second time.
The voting academy:
Javed Hamid Kakar, Emal Pasarly (Afghanistan); Lisa Sthalekar, Andrew Wu, Mike Hussey (Australia) Utpal Shuvro, M. Farid Ahmed, Athar Ali Khan (Bangladesh); Julian Guyer, Lawrence Booth, Nasser Hussain (England); Deep Dasgupta, Sunandan Lele, Jasvinder Sidhu (India); Ian Callendar, Barry Chambers (Ireland); Mark Geenty, Ian Smith (New Zealand); Peter Borren (Netherlands); Ramiz Raja, Abdul Mohi Shah, Mazhar Arshad, Bazid Khan (Pakistan); Shaun Pollock, Neil Manthorp, Firdose Moonda (South Africa); Saroj Pathirana, Russel Arnold, Rex Clementine (Sri Lanka); Peter Della Penna (USA), Ian Bishop, Barry Wilkinson, Vinode Mamchan (West Indies); Trisan Holme, Mehluli Sibanda, Mpumelelo Mbangwa (Zimbabwe).
(inputs from icc-cricket.com)