The International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's Cricketer of the Year (known as the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award since 2017 in memory of pioneering women's cricket player and administrator Rachael Heyhoe Flint[1]) is an award given annually as part of the ICC Awards ceremony.[2][3]
| ICC Award for Best Women's Cricketer | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | ICC |
| First awarded | 2006 |
| Currently held by |  Nat Sciver |
| Most awards |  Ellyse Perry Smriti Mandhana Nat Sciver-Brunt(2 each) |
| Website | ICC Awards |
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Introduced in 2006, the award adjudges the best-performed female international cricketer across an approximate twelve-month voting period.[4][5] Prior to 2009, each of the top ten women's national teams nominated two players and the final selection was made by a 16-person panel.[6] Since 2009, a long list has been chosen by the ICC Awards voting panel, consisting of cricket administrators, journalists and former players. A subsequent short list is then created by a different, 25-person, board.[4]
Between 2006 and 2011, the award ran as a single category, known as the Women's Player of the Year. From 2012 to 2016, it was separated into two format-specific categories: the Women's ODI Player of the Year and Women's T20I Player of the Year awards. In 2017, an overall Women's Cricketer of the Year category was reintroduced, though the separate awards for One Day and Twenty20 cricket would continue to be presented.
In December 2020, after a reduced amount of international cricket had been played throughout the previous twelve months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICC staged a special edition of its annual awards ceremony to recognise the best players of the past ten years.[7] Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry swept all three major female categories to be named the Women's ODI Player of the Decade, Women's T20I Player of the Decade and overall Women's Cricketer of the Decade.[8]
To date, Perry has received the most awards across all three categories with a total of six wins. New Zealand batter Suzie Bates, England wicket-keeper Sarah Taylor and West Indies all-rounder Stafanie Taylor are the next-most-decorated players across all categories, having won a total of three awards each.
Winners
ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year
| Year | Winner | Team | Short listed | Rationale | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Karen Rolton | Australia | Rolton recorded a batting average of just under 50.00 during the voting period, scoring totals of 71 and 97 runs in the second Ashes Test against England in August 2005. She also claimed her best one-day bowling figures, taking 4 wickets for 29 runs, and was awarded her 100th ODI cap for Australia. | [2][9][10] | |
| 2007 | Jhulan Goswami | India | Goswami had a bowling average below 22 in both Test and ODI cricket; 12.40 and 21.80 respectively, and consistently bowled accurately to maintain a low economy rate. She was particularly effective in a Test match against England in which she took 5 wickets for 33 runs. She also scored her highest total in international cricket of 69 in the voting period. | [11][12][13] | |
| 2008 | Charlotte Edwards | England | During the voting period, Edwards scored 492 runs at an average of 54.66 and took 15 wickets at 19.03 for England in ODI cricket. She also scored 94 and 14 not out in her only Test appearance, and captained England during a summer in which they remained unbeaten. | [6][14][15] | |
| 2009 | Claire Taylor | England | In 18 ODIs during the voting period, Taylor scored 565 runs at an average of 70.62, and in Twenty20 cricket averaged 115.00 for her 230 runs. She was named Player of the Tournament at both the Women's World Cup and the Women's World Twenty20, each of which England won. | [16][17][18] | |
| 2010 | Shelley Nitschke | Australia | Nitschke scored 342 runs at an average of 57.00 in 8 ODIs during the voting period, and also claimed 12 wickets. In 10 Twenty20 matches, she scored a further 265 runs and took 10 wickets, and was part of the winning Australian team at the Women's World Twenty20. | [19][20][21] | |
| 2011 | Stafanie Taylor |  West Indies | Taylor scored 610 runs in 10 ODIs during the voting period, at an average of 76.25, and also claimed 15 wickets. She also scored 49 runs and took 5 wickets in Twenty20 matches. She was part of the West Indies team which won the Women's Twenty20 Cricket Challenge. | [3][22][23] |
| Year | Winner | Team | Short listed | Rationale | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [24] | ||
| 2018 | Smriti Mandhana | India | [25] | ||
| 2019 | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [26] | ||
| 2021 | Smriti Mandhana | India | [27] | ||
| 2022 | Nat Sciver-Brunt | England | [28] | ||
| 2023 | [29] |
ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year
| Year | Winner | Team | Short listed | Rationale | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Stafanie Taylor | West Indies | In 13 ODI matches played during the award qualifying period, Taylor scored 514 runs at an average of 46.72, and additionally took 16 wickets with her off-spin at an average of 13.12. | [30] | |
| 2013 | Suzie Bates |  New Zealand | During the award qualifying period, Bates was the top scorer with 681 runs in 11 matches at an average of 75.66, scoring two centuries and 5 half-centuries in the process. She was also the top scorer of the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup. | [31][32][33] | |
| 2014 | Sarah Taylor | England | During the award qualifying period, Taylor was the top scorer with 361 runs in 12 matches at an average of 40.11. She also helped England win the 2013–14 Women's Ashes. | [34][35][36] | |
| 2015 | Meg Lanning | Australia | During the award qualifying period, Lanning was the top scorer with 531 runs in 7 matches at an average of 88.50, scoring two centuries and 3 half-centuries in the process. She also helped Australia win the 2015 Women's Ashes. | [37][38] | |
| 2016 | Suzie Bates | New Zealand | [39] | ||
| 2017 | Amy Satterthwaite | New Zealand | [24] | ||
| 2018 | Smriti Mandhana | India | [25] | ||
| 2019 | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [26] | ||
| 2021 | Lizelle Lee |  South Africa | |||
| 2022 | England | [40] | |||
| 2023 |  Sri Lanka | [41] |
ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year
| Year | Winner | Team | Short listed | Rationale | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Sarah Taylor | England | In 10 T20I matches played during the qualifying period, Taylor scored 340 runs at an average of 48.57, and additionally claimed 7 stumpings and 4 catches as a wicket-keeper. | [42] | |
| 2013 | During the award qualifying period, Taylor was the top scorer with 422 runs in 13 matches at an average of 42.20, scoring 3 half-centuries. She also helped England win the 2013 Women's Ashes. | [31][32][43] | |||
| 2014 | Meg Lanning | Australia | During the award qualifying period, Lanning scored 594 runs in 16 matches at an average of 49.50, apart from scoring 3 half-centuries she was the only player to score a century, becoming just the third player to score a century in women's T20Is. | [34][35][44] | |
| 2015 | Stafanie Taylor | West Indies | During the award qualifying period, Taylor was the top scorer with 340 runs in 9 matches at an average of 42.50, scoring 3 half-centuries. | [37][45] | |
| 2016 | Suzie Bates | New Zealand | [39] | ||
| 2017 | Beth Mooney | Australia | [24] | ||
| 2018 | Alyssa Healy | Australia | [46] | ||
| 2019 | [26] | ||||
| 2021 | England | ||||
| 2022 | Australia | [47] | |||
| 2023 | West Indies | [48] |
ICC Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Beth Mooney |
| 2018 | Sophie Ecclestone |
| 2019 |  Chanida Sutthiruang |
| 2021 |  Fatima Sana |
| 2022 | Renuka Singh |
| 2023 | Phoebe Litchfield |
ICC Women's Associate Player of the Year
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 |  Andrea-Mae Zepeda |
| 2022 |  Esha Oza |
| 2023 |  Queentor Abel |
ICC Women's Cricketer of the Decade
| Year | Winner | Team | Short listed | Rationale | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Cricketer of the Decade | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [8][49] | ||
| Women's ODI Player of the Decade | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [8][49] | ||
| Women's T20I Player of the Decade | Ellyse Perry | Australia | [8][49] |
