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ICC Men's Test Team of the Year
International cricket annual award
International cricket annual award
Note
the award for players
The ICC Men's Test Team of the Year is an honour awarded each year by the International Cricket Council. It recognises the top cricket players from around the world in the Test format of the game. The team does not actually compete, but exists solely as an honorary entity.
ICC Men's Test Team of Year
Winners
Players marked bold won the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:
| Year | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11 | 12th man | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Hayden | Herschelle Gibbs | Ricky Ponting (c) | Rahul Dravid | Brian Lara | Jacques Kallis | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Chaminda Vaas | Shane Warne | Jason Gillespie | Steve Harmison | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virender Sehwag | Graeme Smith | Jacques Kallis | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Andrew Flintoff | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Chaminda Vaas | Glenn McGrath | Anil Kumble | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Matthew Hayden | Michael Hussey | Ricky Ponting | Rahul Dravid (c) | Mohammad Yousuf | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Andrew Flintoff | Shane Warne | Makhaya Ntini | Muttiah Muralitharan | Brett Lee | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michael Vaughan | Ricky Ponting (c) | Mohammad Yousuf | Kevin Pietersen | Michael Hussey | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Stuart Clark | Mohammad Asif | Muttiah Muralitharan | Zaheer Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Graeme Smith (c) | Virender Sehwag | Mahela Jayawardene | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Kevin Pietersen | Jacques Kallis | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Brett Lee | Ryan Sidebottom | Dale Steyn | Stuart Clark | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gautam Gambhir | Andrew Strauss | AB de Villiers | Sachin Tendulkar | Thilan Samaraweera | Michael Clarke | MS Dhoni (c/wk) | Shakib Al Hasan | Mitchell Johnson | Stuart Broad | Dale Steyn | Harbhajan Singh | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virender Sehwag | Simon Katich | Sachin Tendulkar | Hashim Amla | Kumar Sangakkara | Jacques Kallis | Graeme Swann | James Anderson | Dale Steyn | Doug Bollinger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alastair Cook | Hashim Amla | Jonathan Trott | Sachin Tendulkar | Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk) | AB de Villiers | Jacques Kallis | Stuart Broad | Graeme Swann | James Anderson | Zaheer Khan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alastair Cook | Hashim Amla | Kumar Sangakkara | Jacques Kallis | Michael Clarke (c) | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Matt Prior (wk) | Saeed Ajmal | Vernon Philander | Dale Steyn | AB de Villiers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alastair Cook (c) | Cheteshwar Pujara | Hashim Amla | Michael Clarke | Michael Hussey | AB de Villiers | MS Dhoni (wk) | Graeme Swann | Dale Steyn | James Anderson | Vernon Philander | Ravichandran Ashwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Warner | Kane Williamson | Kumar Sangakkara | AB de Villiers (wk) | Joe Root | Angelo Mathews (c) | Mitchell Johnson | Stuart Broad | Rangana Herath | Tim Southee | Ross Taylor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alastair Cook (c) | Kane Williamson | Younis Khan | Steve Smith | Joe Root | Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk) | Trent Boult | Yasir Shah | Josh Hazlewood | Ravichandran Ashwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joe Root | Adam Voges | Jonny Bairstow (wk) | Ben Stokes | Ravichandran Ashwin | Rangana Herath | Mitchell Starc | Dale Steyn | Steve Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dean Elgar | David Warner | Virat Kohli (c) | Steve Smith | Cheteshwar Pujara | Ben Stokes | Quinton de Kock (wk) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Mitchell Starc | Kagiso Rabada | James Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tom Latham | Dimuth Karunaratne | Kane Williamson | Virat Kohli (c) | Henry Nicholls | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Jason Holder | Kagiso Rabada | Nathan Lyon | Jasprit Bumrah | Mohammad Abbas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mayank Agarwal | Tom Latham | Marnus Labuschagne | Virat Kohli (c) | Steve Smith | Ben Stokes | BJ Watling (wk) | Pat Cummins | Mitchell Starc | Neil Wagner | Nathan Lyon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimuth Karunaratne | Rohit Sharma | Joe Root | Kane Williamson (c) | Fawad Alam | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Kyle Jamieson | Hasan Ali | Shaheen Afridi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Usman Khawaja | Kraigg Brathwaite | Babar Azam | Jonny Bairstow | Ben Stokes (c) | Pat Cummins | Kagiso Rabada | Nathan Lyon | James Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Usman Khawaja | Dimuth Karunaratne | Kane Williamson | Joe Root | Travis Head | Ravindra Jadeja | Alex Carey (wk) | Pat Cummins (c) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Mitchell Starc | Stuart Broad | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | Ben Duckett | Harry Brook | Kamindu Mendis | Jamie Smith (wk) | Ravindra Jadeja | Pat Cummins (c) | Matt Henry | Jasprit Bumrah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Travis Head | KL Rahul | Shubman Gill | Temba Bavuma (c) | Alex Carey (wk) | Ravindra Jadeja | Marco Jansen | Mitchell Starc | Simon Harmer | Mohammed Siraj |
Superlatives
Players marked bold are still active in Test matches and years marked bold indicate they won the ICC Test Player of the Year in that respective year:
| # | Player | Team | Appearances | First XI | 12th man | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dale Steyn | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 | |
| 2 | Kumar Sangakkara | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 | |
| Kane Williamson | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024 | |||||
| Joe Root | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 | |||||
| 3 | Jacques Kallis | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 | |
| Stuart Broad | 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2023 | |||||
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 4 | 2 | 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023 | |||
| 4 | Mitchell Starc | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025 | |
| Alastair Cook | 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 | |||||
| James Anderson | 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022 | |||||
| AB de Villiers | 4 | 1 | 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 | |||
| 5 | Ricky Ponting | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| David Warner | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |||||
| Pat Cummins | 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 | |||||
| Hashim Amla | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 | |||||
| Ben Stokes | 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 | |||||
| Steve Smith | 3 | 1 | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 | |||
| 6 | Michael Clarke | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2009, 2012, 2013 | |
| Marnus Labuschagne | 2019, 2021, 2022 | |||||
| Matthew Hayden | 2004, 2006, 2007 | |||||
| Michael Hussey | 2006, 2007, 2013 | |||||
| Shane Warne | 2004, 2005, 2006 | |||||
| Nathan Lyon | 2018, 2019, 2022 | |||||
| Graeme Swann | 2010, 2011, 2013 | |||||
| MS Dhoni | 2009, 2010, 2013 | |||||
| Virat Kohli | 2017, 2018, 2019 | |||||
| Virender Sehwag | 2005, 2008, 2010 | |||||
| Sachin Tendulkar | 2009, 2010, 2011 | |||||
| Ravindra Jadeja | 2023, 2024, 2025 | |||||
| Kagiso Rabada | 2017, 2018, 2022 | |||||
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 2006, 2007, 2008 | |||||
| Dimuth Karunaratne | 2018, 2021, 2023 | |||||
| 7 | Adam Gilchrist | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2005 | |
| Mitchell Johnson | 2009, 2014 | |||||
| Glenn McGrath | 2005, 2006 | |||||
| Usman Khawaja | 2022, 2023 | |||||
| Travis Head | 2023, 2025 | |||||
| Alex Carey | 2023, 2025 | |||||
| Andrew Flintoff | 2005, 2006 | |||||
| Kevin Pietersen | 2007, 2008 | |||||
| Jonny Bairstow | 2016, 2022 | |||||
| Rahul Dravid | 2004, 2006 | |||||
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 2013, 2017 | |||||
| Rishabh Pant | 2021, 2022 | |||||
| Jasprit Bumrah | 2018, 2024 | |||||
| Tom Latham | 2018, 2019 | |||||
| Mohammad Yousuf | 2006, 2007 | |||||
| Makhaya Ntini | 2006, 2007 | |||||
| Vernon Philander | 2012, 2013 | |||||
| Graeme Smith | 2005, 2008 | |||||
| Rangana Herath | 2014, 2016 | |||||
| Chaminda Vaas | 2004, 2005 | |||||
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul | 2008, 2012 | |||||
| Brian Lara | 2004, 2005 | |||||
| Stuart Clark | 1 | 1 | 2007, 2008 | |||
| Brett Lee | 2006, 2008 | |||||
| Zaheer Khan | 0 | 2 | 2007, 2011 |
Appearances by nation
| Country | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 60 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 45 | ||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 41 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 38 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 |
References
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