Jasprit Bumrah has been named the ICC's men's cricketer of the year following his stand out performances across all three formats. Here's the full list of players ever to win the award.
Bumrah takes the Garfield Sobers Trophy having taken 15 wickets as India won the T20 World Cup for the first time since 2007. He also excelled in Tests, averaging 14.92 with the ball and helping his country to series wins over England and Bangladesh.
Bumrah’s total of 71 Test wickets was 19 more than the next-best bowler, Gus Atkinson and he has carried this form into 2025, having been named player of the series in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
He is the 18th different winner of the award, which comes after he was also awarded the ICC's men’s Test cricketer of the year title. Four other India players have taken home this accolade, and he is the first to win since Virat Kohli in 2018.
Who are the previous winners?
The Garfield Sobers Trophy was introduced in 2004 and has been given to the best men’s cricketer across all formats every year, except for 2020, when the pandemic made the award redundant. Rahul Dravid took the trophy home at the inaugural ceremony and is one of five Indian winners alongside Bumrah, Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin and Sachin Tendulkar.
Both Kohli and Ricky Ponting won the award in back-to-back years while Mitchell Johnson is the only other player to win twice, in 2009 and 2014. Recent winners include Australia captain Pat Cummins, Pakistan duo Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi, and current England skipper Ben Stokes.
Jacques Kallis and Freddie Flintoff remain the only two players to share the trophy, having done so in 2005. No country has won the award more times than Australia (6), who are followed by India (5), England (3) and Pakistan (2). Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Kumar Sangakkara remain the only winners of the trophy from the West Indies and Sri Lanka respectively.
Full list: ICC Cricketer of the Year winners
| Year | Player | Country |
| 2004 | Rahul Dravid | India |
| 2005 | Jacques Kallis & Andrew Flintoff (shared) | South Africa & England |
| 2006 | Ricky Ponting | Australia |
| 2007 | Ricky Ponting | Australia |
| 2008 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | West Indies |
| 2009 | Mitchell Johnson | Australia |
| 2010 | Sachin Tendulkar | India |
| 2011 | Jonathan Trott | England |
| 2012 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka |
| 2013 | Michael Clarke | Australia |
| 2014 | Mitchell Johnson | Australia |
| 2015 | Steve Smith | Australia |
| 2016 | R Ashwin | India |
| 2017 | Virat Kohli | India |
| 2018 | Virat Kohli | India |
| 2019 | Ben Stokes | England |
| 2021 | Shaheen Shah Afridi | Pakistan |
| 2022 | Babar Azam | Pakistan |
| 2023 | Pat Cummins | Australia |
| 2024 | Jasprit Bumrah | India |
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