Smith was named the winner at Monday’s Allan Border Medal Ceremony in Melbourne, with the award the biggest individual prize for an Australian cricketer to win.

It was the one of two victories on the night as Smith also won Australia’s Test Player of the Year Award, after becoming the number one ranked Test batsman in world cricket by scoring 1,305 runs at an average of 76.76 last year.

[caption id=”attachment_61212″ align=”alignnone” width=”800″] Steve Smith addresses the crowd after winning the Allan Border Medal[/caption]

Just a few weeks ago he was also named the ICC’s Test Cricketer of the Year, so it has been a very successful month for Smith since guiding Australia to a 4-0 home Ashes win over England.

There were a number of awards given out on the night, including the Belinda Clark Award, for the top Australian female cricketer, which was given to Ellyse Perry.

Perry was the standout candidate for the award after her spectacular 2017 and she was the clear winner by a huge margin of 38 votes, which follows up her ICC Cricketer of the Year Award from last month.

[caption id=”attachment_61213″ align=”alignnone” width=”800″] Ellyse Perry won the Belinda Clark Award for women’s Player of the Year[/caption]

The Australian was third highest run-scorer during the Women’s World Cup with 404 from eight matches and also took nine wickets in that time, before being a key figure in Australia winning the Women’s Ashes, which saw her become the seventh woman to score a Test match double-hundred.

David Warner was named the ODI Player of the Year, narrowly beating out Smith and Marcus Stoinis, while Aaron Finch was awarded the country’s T20I Player of the Year Award for the second time.

[caption id=”attachment_61214″ align=”alignnone” width=”1024″] David Warner celebrates his ODI Player of the Year Award[/caption]

Jhye Richardson was awarded the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year winner as one of the country’s rising stars, while George Bailey won Domestic Player of the Year for the men, with Beth Mooney scooping the award on the women’s side.

2018 Allan Border Award winners:

Allan Border Medal – Steve Smith

Test Player of the Year – Steve Smith

ODI Player of the Year – David Warner

T20I Player of the Year – Aaron Finch

Belinda Clark Award – Ellyse Perry

Betty Wilson Young Cricketer – Georgia Redmayne

Bradman Young Cricketer – Jhye Richardson

Men’s Domestic Player of the Year – George Bailey

Women’s Domestic Player of the Year – Beth Mooney