Australian cricket legend Allan Border believes that David Warner deserved to win the country’s highest individual honor – Allan Border Medal despite many not agreed with the winner recently at the 2020 Cricket Australia Awards on February 10 in Melbourne.

Soon after Warner won his third Allan Border award on Monday, many people have started argument whether the destructive opening batsman deserves to win Australia’s top award – named in Border’s honor especially because of his “absolutely horrendous” outing the Ashes 2019 in England.

However, Border defended the winner for the medal named in his honor but the former Australian captain has suggested that the scoring system for the award may need to overhaul after Warner won the top prize despite his woeful Ashes campaign last year, scoring just 95 runs.

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The 33-year-old, who was also named Australia Men’s T20I Player of the Year, has earned 194 votes, beating Steve Smith by just one vote with Pat Cummins finishing third on 185 votes.

Border told Fox Sports, “There was a sense of surprise when the final name was readout. But I think there were three or four very good contenders, with Smith and (Pat) Cummins in particular, (Mitchell) Starc, even Nathan Lyon had a fantastic 12 months.”

He continued, “But David Warner, with the way the votes (were), came out on top. Very close margin but I think a deserved winner. He had a fantastic 12 months apart from that Ashes series, where Steve Smith was unbelievable. That’s why the voting was very, very close.”

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Meanwhile, the Aussie great feels the time has come to tweak the voting system to recognize the best Australian male cricketer for the Allan Border Medal.

Border signed off by saying, “Maybe the voting system can be looked at. We've been going for 21 years, it's probably time to have just a look at how the votes are put together and how it's all combined over the three, four months of the game for that final winner. Maybe it is timely to have a bit of a look at that voting system.”

(With Fox Sports Inputs)