Kagiso Rabada won big at the annual Cricket South Africa awards on Saturday, June 2, going home with six awards including the South Africa Cricketer of the Year.
Dane van Niekerk was named Cricketer of the Year among women. Both Rabada and van Niekerk won this award for the second time, having already been honoured once in 2016.
Other South African cricketers who have won the Cricketer of the Year award twice are Jacques Kallis (2004, 2011), Makhaya Ntini (2005, 2006), Hashim Amla (2010, 2013) and AB de Villiers ( 2014, 2015).
The string of awards is recognition of Rabada’s successful year, as he sits atop the wicket-takers chart for 2018 in Tests with 38 wickets from seven matches.
The T20I Cricketer of the Year award, one that did not go to Rabada for a change, was given to de Villiers while Aiden Markram was named International Newcomer of the Year.
Among women, Laura Wolvaardt was ODI Player of the Year and Chloe Tyron, who has a T20I strike-rate of 178.94 in 2018, was chosen as the T20I Player of the Year.
A special tribute was reserved for de Villiers, who retired from international cricket recently.
