The Australian Cricket Awards 2019 saw the annual tradition of rewarding the best performances in Australia cricket in the cricketing year of 2018-19. Some of the major winners at the awards were Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Alyssa Healy, and Pat Cummins.
Australia’s no.1 off-spinner Nathan Lyon won the Test player of the year, while Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis won the T20I and ODI player of the year awards respectively. At 25 years and 279 days, Cummins is the youngest player to win the Allan Border medal since Steve Smith, who won the first of his two awards aged 25 years and 239 days.
The voting period was between January 7, 2018, and January 9, 2019, and Lyon performed brilliantly during this period and received 25 votes from his teammates, umpires and media representatives. He edged out Pat Cummins and Usman Khawaja for the award, who received 17 votes each. Captain Tim Paine (nine) and all-rounder Mitchell Marsh (eight) also made it to the top five, according to cricket.com.au.
Glenn Maxwell received his second T20 Player of the Year award after his win in 2015. He polled 33 votes, three more than nearest rival D'Arcy Short. Andrew Tye, with 29 votes, Aaron Finch (19) and Billy Stanlake (18) also made the list.
Marcus Stoinis won the ODI Player of the Year by a considerably big margin of eight votes. While the all-rounder polled 30 votes, ODI captain Aaron Finch finished second with 22 votes. Shaun Marsh, who was in fine form with the bat during the voting period, managed only 18 votes while Travis Head got 14 and pacers Andrew Tye and Billy Stanlake received nine votes each.
Southern Stars’ wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy won the inaugural women's T20I player of the year. She had won the player of the tournament award at last year's World T20 and was also the ICC T20I Player of the Year.
Former batsman Dean Jones, Billy Murdoch, and fast bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick were inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. Matthew Wade was named the Domestic Player of the Year.
Here is a full list of the winners:
Allan Border Medal: Pat Cummins
Belinda Clark Award: Alyssa Healy
Male ODI player of the year: Marcus Stoinis
Female ODI player of the year: Alyssa Healy
Test player of the year: Nathan Lyon
Male T20I player of the year: Glenn Maxwell
Female T20I player of the year: Alyssa Healy
Male domestic player of the year: Matthew Wade
Female domestic player of the year: Heather Graham
Bradman young cricketer of the year: Will Pucovski
Betty Wilson young cricketer of the year: Georgia Wareham
