Smith, Lyon, Knight, Fakhar, Amir clutch awards for 2017

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Heather Knight voted captain of the year after World Cup clutch

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Steven Smith, Nathan Lyon, Heather Knight, Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Amir are amongst the winners of the ESPNcricinfo Awards for the most clear-cut performances in cricket in 2017.

Smith’s battling 109 in Australia’s sudden clutch in Pune won for simplest Test batting efficiency, beating his eight-and-a-half of-hour 141 not out at the Gabba, and Shai Hope’s match-successful closing-innings century in Headingley, amongst varied performances.

Lyon’s eight for 50 used to be picked for the Test bowling award, over R Ashwin’s 6 for 41 within the the same Test, in Bengaluru.

Knight, the England Women folk captain, who led her aspect to the World Cup title (and wins in eleven fits out of 15 total within the year), won the Captain of the twelve months award over Smith, Virat Kohli and Sarfraz Ahmed. It used to be the most important time females were nominated within the category.

Both ODI awards went to Champions Trophy winners Pakistan – Zaman’s 114 not out, in fair his fourth ODI, and Mohammad Amir’s impressed spell of three for sixteen, both within the Champions Trophy closing against India, were picked over Rohit Sharma’s third occupation double-hundred and Rashid Khan’s seven-for against West Indies.

Rashid, who used to be nominated three times this year, the most of any participant, won the Affiliate bowling efficiency of the year for that 7 for 18.

The T20I batting award went to Evin Lewis, who made one hundred twenty 5 not out, the perfect ranking in a T20I inch, in Kingston against India. Yuzvendra Chahal used to be voted the T20I bowling winner for his 6 for 25 against England in Bengaluru.

That is the eleventh model of the ESPNcricinfo Awards, where a jury of historic avid gamers – amongst them Ian Chappell, Courtney Walsh, Ramiz Raja, Daryll Cullinan, Ajit Agarkar and Heed Nicholas – and ESPNcricinfo’s senior editors vote on the most clear-cut performances of the earlier year.

Kuldeep Yadav used to be adjudged Debutant of the year. Yadav, whose first world wicket used to be David Warner, within the Dharamsala Test, ended the year with 43 world wickets at 22.18, well ahead of his nearest plug rival on the shortlist, Pakistan legspinner Shadab Khan, who took 34 wickets at 25.35.

The Affiliate batting award went to Kyle Coetzer for his century in Scotland’s 26-traipse clutch over Zimbabwe, their first ODI clutch over a Fat Member.

The 2017 Women folk’s World Cup used to be a landmark tournament by reach of viewership and rapid-paced circulation, and the successful performances within the awards got right here within the two most watched games – Harmanpreet Kaur’s ballistic 171 not out from India’s semi-closing against Australia, and Anya Shrubsole’s title-clinching 6 for 46 for England against India within the closing.

Outdated ESPNcricinfo awards winners maintain integrated Mitchell Johnson, Sachin Tendulkar and Lasith Malinga (three awards apiece), and Dale Steyn, Virender Sehwag, Shahid Afridi, Stuart Titanic and Virat Kohli (two every).

More on the nominees and winners right here

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