Bumrah toppled nominees – Australia’s Travis Head, England’s Joe Root, and Harry Brook – to win the prestigious award for the recently-concluded year. He bagged 71 Test wickets from 13 matches, with a bowling average of 14.92 and a strike rate of 30.16. His brilliance in the whites was evident throughout the year and highlighted by the tour down under where the Gujarat-based pacer bucketed 32 wickets across five Tests.
“Indian pace sensation Jasprit Bumrah has been honoured with the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards, recognising his extraordinary 2024, in which he dominated opponents in the longest as well as the shortest format of the game,” the ICC release expressed.
Bumrah was equally brilliant in the T20I format where was one of the pivotal members in India’s 2024 T20 World Cup triumph. He picked up 15 wickets in eight innings in the year, with an extraordinary economy of 4.17.
The 31-year-old also won the ICC Men’s Test bowler of the year and was a part of the ICC Men’s Test and T20I teams. Bumrah is also the fifth Indian to win the award, after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016), and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
Meanwhile, Amelia Kerr won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year after an impressive performance in the year and Player of the Match, and Player of the Series awards in Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 finals.
