Smith became the fourth Australian and 11th overall to win the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named ICC Cricketer-of-the-Year 2015.

Smith was also adjudged the Test Cricketer-of-the-Year, which has made him only the seventh cricketer after Dravid (2004), Kallis (2005), Ponting (2006), Sangakkara (2012), Clarke (2013) and Johnson (2014) to bag the two coveted prizes in the same year.

South Africa’s ODI captain A.B. de Villiers was named the ODI Cricketer-of-the-Year for the second time in a row.

During the voting period, which ran from September 18, 2014 to September 13, 2015, the 26-year-old Smith finished as the leading run-scorer in Tests with 1,734 runs from 13 matches at an average of 82.57.

This included seven centuries and six half-centuries. In 26 one-dayers, Smith scored 1,249 runs at an average of just under 60 with four centuries and eight half-centuries.

In the voting period, de Villiers scored 1,265 runs in 20 innings at an average of just over 79 and a strike rate of 128.4.

He hit two centuries and nine half-centuries. Earlier this month, de Villiers was named captain of the ICC ODI Team-of-the-Year.

de Villiers’s teammate and South Africa’s T20I captain Faf du Plessis won the T20I Performance-of-the-Year award for his 56-ball 119 against the West Indies in the second T20I in Johannesburg on January 11, 2015.

du Plessis had clubbed 11 fours and five sixes in his swashbuckling innings.

Australia women’s team captain Meg Lanning was named women’s ODI Cricketer-of-the-Year, while the West Indies women’s captain Stafanie Taylor won her maiden women’s T20I Cricketer-of-the-Year award.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum won the Spirit-of-Cricket award for inspiring his side to play the game in its true spirit.