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Ashwin gets ICC cricketer of year, test player awards

INDIA spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin has been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year, and the 2016 test player of the year, according to the annual International Cricket Council awards announced yesterday.

Ashwin, who captured 48 wickets in eight tests during the voting period, becomes the second Indian player after Rahul Dravid (2004) to win both awards in the same year. Jacques Kallis (2005), Ricky Ponting (2006), Kumar Sangakkara (2012), Michael Clarke (2013), Mitchell Johnson (2014) and Steve Smith (2015) are the other players to win both in the same year. During the voting period, which went from September 14, 2015, to September 20, 2016, Ashwin also scored 336 test runs. South Africa wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock was named the one-day international cricketer of the year after scoring 793 runs, including four centuries, in 16 matches.

 




 

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