DUBAI: Dream run for Ravichandran Ashwin continue even after India - England series as right-arm off break bowler adjudged ICC Cricketer of Year 2016 for his all-round performance in all three-formate of cricket.
Ashwin has become the third India player and 12th player overall to win the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2016.
30-year-old Chennai-born all-rounder played eight Tests in which he took 48 wickets and scored 336 runs. He also claimed 27 wickets in 19 T20Is. Ashwin had finished 2015 as the number-one ranked Test bowler in the world and reclaimed numero uno in 2016 as well.
Before, this Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar declared player of years in 2004 and 2010 respectively. Besides Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis (joint-winners in 2005), Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008), Mitchell Johnson (2009 and 2014), Jonathan Trott (2011), Kumar Sangakkara (2012), Michael Clarke (2013) and Steve Smith (2015) are other recipients of pretigious awarn.
Ashwin was also adjudged the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year, which has made him only the second India player after Dravid (2004) to bag the two coveted prizes in the same year.
Kallis (2005), Ponting (2006), Sangakkara (2012), Clarke (2013), Johnson (2014) and Smith (2015) are the other players to annex both the awards in the same year.
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