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It is based on the previous English summer.

No player can win the award twice.

Possible contenders were:

Jofra Archer – World Cup winner and bowled thrillingly in the Ashes.

Rohit Sharma – Five centuries in the World Cup.

Babar Azam – Century in ODI series in England, in the World Cup and also leading run scorer in the T20 Blast for Somerset.

Simon Harmer – Led Essex to the T20 County title and took plenty of wickets in their division one county championship triumph.

Darren Stevens – Double century aged 43 against Yorkshire.

Pat Cummins – Ashes performance. Pretty good in the World Cup too.

Tim Paine – Leading Australia to retaining the Ashes.

Matthew Wade – Two centuries in the Ashes.

Ellyse Perry – Phenomenal series in the Women’s Ashes with both bat and ball in a successful result for the tourists.

Adil Rashid - World Cup winner.

Jason Roy - World Cup winner.

Liam Plunkett - World Cup winner.
 
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W CoTY is awarded for performance between May to next April (roughly start of English season) - it credits almost entirely Test cricket, and it gives highest importance for cricket in UK. Also, it doesn't award a player twice, awards five players every year. Only four guys have won it alone in a year, and two for mostly not cricketing achievements (J Wisden & Plum Warner); two won for their cricket and both deserved that - Dr. WG Grace in 1896 & Sir JB Hobbs, 1926.

Stokes won't win it because he won in 2016, Shakib won't either for lack of Test cricket (otherwise his WC 2019 alone was enough, though Dhawan won in in 2014 for his CT 2013). My 5 will be

1. Labuschagne
2. Pat Cummins
3. Stewart Broad
4. Jofra Archer

I leave the 5th spot for Women quota, otherwise I would have picked Shakib.
 
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Archer, Cummins, Laubschagne, Rohit, Shakib, Ellys Perry( maybe).
 
Archer
Rohit
Cummins
Harmer
Perry

Tried to fill each of the quotas - WC, Ashes, County and Womens cricket.
 
Guaranteed Wisden Cricketers
Rohit Sharma - Most WC hundreds, top scorer.
Marnus Labuschagne - <ost Ashes '19 50's, coming in as a concussion substitute to the best player in the squad
Ellyse Perry - Most runs and most wickets across all formats of the women's Ashes since 2013. Led Australia to win Ashes '19 by 12-4 including a 3-0 whitewash in WODI's.


Remaining two spots, in order of likelihood
Pat Cummins - most wickets in the Ashes
Jofra Archer - Explosive Test debut in the Ashes, and breakthrough world Cup.
Dom Sibley - Only batsman to cross 1000 runs in county at 1300 runs.
Ben Stokes - Although tradition demands that each cricketer receive the honor only once, Stokes is single-handedly responsible for England's first ever world cup victory. Combined with his Superman innings during the Ashes, if there is ever a time to break the tradition, it is this year. There is precedent for an exception, albeit 100 years ago.
Simon Harmer - Led Essex to win division 1 with 83 wickets.
 
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Babar Azam a glaring omission? Surely should have been there.
 
Rohit Sharma - 5 centuries in the World Cup not included in the 5.

Mind you, Hassan Ali didn't get it despite being player of the tournament at the Champions Trophy in the 2018 awards.
 
MenInG said:
Babar Azam a glaring omission? Surely should have been there.
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T20 century vs Leicestershire for Pakistan.
Century in the ODI series against England.
Century in the World Cup warm up game.
A century and 3 50s in the World Cup.
Top run scorer in the T20 Blast.

Perhaps lack of red ball cricket cost him, although he turned out for Somerset for a game or two during his time there.

Nonetheless, congratulations to the successful five. Deserving winners in their own right and it must have been extremely difficult to narrow it down to five names.
 
Good list.

Caveat being the understanding that Wisden are ultimate traditionalists and won't take much notice of performances in white ball cricket.

Both Babar and Rohit didn't do enough at the highest level to qualify.
 
Must be the first time in history ever that not a single Englishman was selected in Wisden's 5 cricketers of the year list. :kp
 
big_gamer007 said:
Who the hell is Simon harmer?

Elysee Perry I assume is a women's cricketer?
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Simon Harmer has played 5 Tests for SA.
He is an attacking off spinner.
Captained Essex to their first T20 title.
Took a stack of wickets to help them win the County Championship too.

Ellye Perry took 7 wickets in a Women's Ashes ODI and scored a century in the Women's Ashes Test.

Please respect their achievements. Thoroughly deserving winners.
 
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Ben Stokes has become the first Englishman since 2005 to be named Wisden's leading cricketer in the world.

Stokes played a key role in England's World Cup victory in July and was named man of the match in the final.

The 28-year-old scored a stunning 135 not out to lead England to a thrilling one-wicket victory over Australia in the third Ashes Test at Headingley.

Andrew Flintoff was the last England men's player to receive the award.

India captain Virat Kohli has won it for the past three years.

England pace bowler Jofra Archer has been named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year.

Australians Pat Cummins, Marnus Labuschagne and Ellyse Perry have been named alongside Archer, as well as Essex off-spinner Simon Harmer.

Perry, who is the first non-England women's player to appear as one of the five, has also been named the world's leading women's cricketer.

All-rounder Stokes hit an unbeaten 84 and then batted again in the super over as England dramatically beat New Zealand at Lord's to lift the men's World Cup for the first time.

His last-wicket stand of 76 with Jack Leach helped England level the Ashes series, which they would eventually draw 2-2.

"Without him, this Almanack might have been another English hard-luck story," editor Lawrence Booth wrote.

"Instead, it’s a celebration. Stokes is their all-weather cricketer, a giant come rain or shine.

"The next few years should be fun.”

The Cricketers of the Year - who else won & why?

Archer made his England debut in May 2019 and two months later bowled the super over that ensured England's World Cup victory.

He made his Test debut in the Ashes, finishing the five-match series with 22 wickets at an average of 20.27.

Australian pace bowler Cummins was the leading wicket-taker in that series, claiming 29 wickets as Australia retained the Ashes.

Batsman Labuschagne first appeared in the Ashes as a concussion substitute for Steve Smith and went on to score four successive half-centuries.

He averaged 112 in the Australian summer and is third in the Test batting rankings after Smith and Kohli.

Harmer was part of the Essex side that won the County Championship and T20 Blast in 2019, taking 83 wickets and 10 five-wicket hauls in the Championship.

Perry was the leading run-scorer and wicket-taker as Australia successfully defended their Women's Ashes title against England.

The all-rounder finished the multi-format series with 378 runs - including a Test century at Taunton - and 15 wickets.https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/52190780
 
BoomBoomCricket said:
Simon Harmer has played 5 Tests for SA.
He is an attacking off spinner.
Captained Essex to their first T20 title.
Took a stack of wickets to help them win the County Championship too.

Ellye Perry took 7 wickets in a Women's Ashes ODI and scored a century in the Women's Ashes Test.

Please respect their achievements. Thoroughly deserving winners.
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When did I disrespect them? I don't know anything about them to respect or disrespect them.

Wisden player of the year are supposed to be international players or domestic players get in? How does this work?

I am sure these two did extremely well and deserve the praise they get but if it's Wisden's player of the year then surely a Rohit or Babar who achieved success internationally deserve a spot more than someone who helped domestic side win title?

Our if 5 spots are 2 spots reserved? 1 for domestic and 1 for women's cricket?
 
Last Monetarist said:
Good list.

Caveat being the understanding that Wisden are ultimate traditionalists and won't take much notice of performances in white ball cricket.

Both Babar and Rohit didn't do enough at the highest level to qualify.
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Have you been watching cricket for the last year? Both have done brilliantly in all formats.
 
Rohit and Shakib missing out, wow. I understand these gentlemen don't rate white ball cricket highly but it was a WC year, first time in England since 1999, should have counted for something.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
He's a county legend at this point.
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5 Wisden players of the year includes quote for 1 domestic/county player?

How can a domestic/county guy be included over any international performers?

Whole Wisden list is a joke if that's the case, shouldn't be taken seriously.
 
big_gamer007 said:
5 Wisden players of the year includes quote for 1 domestic/county player?

How can a domestic/county guy be included over any international performers?

Whole Wisden list is a joke if that's the case, shouldn't be taken seriously.
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its an english award, for players having influence on the english cricket season. if u dont play in/against england ur unlikely to be on the list.
 
ElRaja said:
its an english award, for players having influence on the english cricket season. if u dont play in/against england ur unlikely to be on the list.
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Ok got it, I thought it was international award. Thanks for clarification, makes sense now.
 
big_gamer007 said:
5 Wisden players of the year includes quote for 1 domestic/county player?

How can a domestic/county guy be included over any international performers?

Whole Wisden list is a joke if that's the case, shouldn't be taken seriously.
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I mean it is England-centric but that's because the majority of the magazine's following lies in England. Therefore, besides the rule that a player can only make the list once they tend to favor players who perform well in England.
 
big_gamer007 said:
5 Wisden players of the year includes quote for 1 domestic/county player?

How can a domestic/county guy be included over any international performers?

Whole Wisden list is a joke if that's the case, shouldn't be taken seriously.
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This award has been running every year since 1890 or something.
All serious cricket fans and followers know about it. Try telling that to them that it is a joke.
It is to honour the five outstanding performers in an English summer in any professional cricket. And they are new ones each time.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Have you been watching cricket for the last year? Both have done brilliantly in all formats.
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Yes but wisden only takes into account performances in England. Babar and Rohit did well, but Wisden do tend to give a very high preference to red ball cricket.
 
BoomBoomCricket said:
This award has been running every year since 1890 or something.
All serious cricket fans and followers know about it. Try telling that to them that it is a joke.
It is to honour the five outstanding performers in an English summer in any professional cricket. And they are new ones each time.
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I used to believe it's very prestigious as well till about 2 hours ago when someone informed me the magazine awards players who perform in county.

My first memories of this award is when Sachin and warnie were included in Wisden cricketer of century or something.
Then Wisden ranked Kapil as greatest Indian cricketer over Sachin and Gavaskar.

I used to think it's very prestigious like Oscars and rewards the best in the world.

I never knew it rewards whoever performs in England, so kind of a domestic award.

From being an Oscar it turned out to be Star Cine Awards.
 
big_gamer007 said:
I used to believe it's very prestigious as well till about 2 hours ago when someone informed me the magazine awards players who perform in county.

My first memories of this award is when Sachin and warnie were included in Wisden cricketer of century or something.
Then Wisden ranked Kapil as greatest Indian cricketer over Sachin and Gavaskar.

I used to think it's very prestigious like Oscars and rewards the best in the world.

I never knew it rewards whoever performs in England, so kind of a domestic award.

From being an Oscar it turned out to be Star Cine Awards.
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England is the home of cricket, especially long form cricket.
That is why it is such a big deal to get this award.
 
BoomBoomCricket said:
England is the home of cricket, especially long form cricket.
That is why it is such a big deal to get this award.
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For purists mate, nowadays times have changed most people enjoy their team playing and don't care "home of cricket" and things like that.

Times have changed, cricket like most other sports has become commercial rather than colonial.
 
No better place to be in June, July and August than England for cricket. Long days. Late sunset.
 
Can't believe jofra archers on there, must be some kind of consolation prize after losing the ashes
 
chacha kashmiri said:
Can't believe jofra archers on there, must be some kind of consolation prize after losing the ashes
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23 ODI wickets @ 24.73 with an insane economy rate of just 4.63 despite bowling the majority of his overs in the powerplay and at the death, including 20 wickets in a winning World Cup campaign and bowling the winning super over.

22 Test wickets @ 20.27 against Australia.

1 T20I taking 2/29.

All in his debut season... There's not really an argument for someone else to be there ahead of him.
 
Wisden has named Ben Stokes as its leading cricketer in the world and urged the government to ensure that at the next global event in the UK all England matches are broadcast on free-to-air television – not only the final.

The 157th Almanack lands on Thursday in what should have been a precursor to the opening deliveries of the County Championship this Easter Sunday. However the sport it charts sits in stasis and so this is solely a blast of primrose sunshine from 2019.

Stokes is duly feted for the heroics witnessed during the World Cup final at Lord’s and the Headingley heist that joined the pantheon of Ashes centuries. He is the second England player to win this award in its 17-year history after Andrew Flintoff – even if Jos Buttler’s epochal breaking of the stumps at Lord’s adorns Wisden’s cover.

Writing in his notes the Wisden editor, Lawrence Booth, says: “Every so often, an England cricketer joins the national conversation. First among equals is WG Grace, because he put the sport on the map. But others have kept it there: Hobbs, Hutton, Compton, Botham, Flintoff, Pietersen and now Stokes. Of the three modern all-rounders, Stokes can be the greatest.”

Wisden’s five cricketers of the year, a slice of prestige that dates back to 1889, can only be won once in a playing career and as a result England’s Jofra Archer is the sole World Cup winner to be included after what is hailed as “an unprecedented impact in his first summer as an international cricketer”.

Archer is joined here by three Australian cricketers in Pat Cummins, Marnus Labuschagne and Ellyse Perry, who were all instrumental in helping their teams to retain the men’s and women’s Ashes on British soil. Simon Harmer, the South African who spun Essex to their second Championship title in three years, joins them.

Perry is also named the leading female cricketer in the world – like Stokes this is for performances across the entire calendar year, not only the English summer – while another all-rounder, Andre Russell of West Indies, is the top Twenty20 cricketer.

The editor’s notes are particularly forthright on the lesson from Sky Sports sharing the World Cup final with Channel 4, and England becoming the nation’s team again. Booth writes: “The [England and Wales Cricket Board] calculated that almost a third of the 15.4 million who at some point tuned in to Channel 4’s coverage were watching cricket for the first time.

“The argument that no one watches TV any more sounded odder than ever. When the UK next hosts the World Cup, the government must insist that England’s games can be watched by the man and woman on the street, not just those who can afford the subscription.”

As well as giving Eoin Morgan a platform to explain how multiculturalism inspired his victorious team, and a defence of five-day Test cricket after the suggestion it be cut to four, Wisden also raises the subject of unconscious bias in English cricket. The question is asked as to whether this was present amid the narrative of Archer’s year.

Booth writes: “[Jofra Archer was] regarded in some quarters as an interloper, until he helped win a World Cup, when he became a national hero. Then, as soon as his pace dropped, or he struggled on heartless pitches in New Zealand with the Kookaburra [ball], his motivation was questioned.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...tokes-named-leading-cricketer-in-world-wisden
 
MenInG said:
Babar Azam a glaring omission? Surely should have been there.
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The dates are very specific re the qualification.

It'll be interesting to see what his numbers are.
 
Saj said:
The dates are very specific re the qualification.

It'll be interesting to see what his numbers are.
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Widsen in reply to our query of criteria"

"It’s the English summer for the Five, and the whole year for the Leading Cricketers in the World."
 
Harmer was a little miss - I thought finally they'll reward Broad for his services to English cricket (& I didn't check Country season stats - should have done that; I knew one will get based on domestic performance), but other three select themselves, as per the criteria. I have absolutely no clue about Ladies cricket, otherwise that one was also quite predictable. Overall, very good selections.
 
MMHS said:
Harmer was a little miss - I thought finally they'll reward Broad for his services to English cricket (& I didn't check Country season stats - should have done that; I knew one will get based on domestic performance), but other three select themselves, as per the criteria. I have absolutely no clue about Ladies cricket, otherwise that one was also quite predictable. Overall, very good selections.
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Harmer won Essex the county championship. He had a stand-out season with the ball and that's why he's there.
 
Danyaalr01 said:
Yes but wisden only takes into account performances in England. Babar and Rohit did well, but Wisden do tend to give a very high preference to red ball cricket.
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Fair enough I suppose. All the other players had excellent summers in red ball.
 
The Wisden while naming the Five Cricketers of the Year in 2019 gave India’s ODI deputy Rohit Sharma a miss and it came as a huge surprise because Rohit hit five hundreds in the 2019 World Cup and former India batsman V.V.S. Laxman has said the same, calling the move a shocker.

Speaking on Rohit Sharma not featuring in Wisden Cricketers of the Year list, Laxman said on Star Sports show Cricket Connected: “I think anyone who follows the game of cricket will be surprised and shocked not to see Rohit Sharma’s name in those five players list. The Ashes is an important series, the World Cup is bigger than Ashes. And someone who has scored five hundred; remember the first hundred was on a tough wicket in Southampton against South Africa and none of the other batsmen got runs. And he played another important knock against Pakistan. I am really shocked and surprised, and every cricketer will be shocked and surprised by this announcement from Wisden.”

England’s Ben Stokes and Ellyse Perry of Australia were on Wednesday named the Leading Cricketers of 2019 by Wisden Almanack.

Stokes became the first English cricketer after Andrew Flintoff since 2005 to win the award whereas Perry, the star Australian all-rounder, had won the award previously in 2016 and has thus become the first woman to claim the award twice.

Across the 2019 calendar, Stokes hit 821 Test runs at 45, including an Ashes hundred at Lord’s, and 719 in ODIs at almost 60.

Perry, on the other hand, raised the bar a notch higher, scoring a century (plus 76 not out) in her only Test, and two more (both unbeaten) in ODIs, where she averaged 73. From six T20 international innings, she was dismissed once, averaging 150. On top of that were 21 one-day wickets at 13 apiece, and six in T20s.

Meanwhile, hard-hitting West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was named T20 Leading Cricketer of 2019. Last year, Russell took 46 wickets and scored 1,080 runs in T20 matches.

Along with Perry, Wisden named Pat Cummins, Marnus Labuschagne, Jofra Archer and Simon Harmer as the Five Cricketers of the Year.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cric...sden-s-list/story-ih6kfs9ViNU2Fwgt0pGO3O.html
 
Wisden Cricketers of the Year: The trickiest of selections – Almanack

Apologies, then, to Josh Hazlewood, Jack Leach, Jason Roy, Rohit Sharma and Mitchell Starc. In another year, they might have made a compelling Five. But the summer of 2019 – World Cup, Ashes and all – was always likely to throw up a crowded list of candidates; not every drop of cream could rise to the top.

Cricketers of the Year have been chosen by Wisden since 1889, usually in clumps of five (though there has also been a nine, a six, a four and three ones), and rarely without the editor’s sanity being questioned. But there is, in theory, a method to the madness: a player is picked only once, a quirk which is part of the award’s charm and distinctiveness; and, according to Almanack rubric, the selection is made on the basis of “excellence in and/or influence on the previous English summer”.

Winners have not always ticked both boxes, but the bar for admission to the class of 2020 was necessarily high. Leach, for instance, achieved near-cult status for his nightwatchman’s 92 against Ireland, his one not out at Headingley, and his sweaty specs; he even spawned his own mask. Had he bowled Somerset to their first Championship title on the last day of the season, who knows? But an Ashes haul of 12 wickets was unexceptional. In the end, his influence outdid his excellence.

Sharma hit a record five World Cup hundreds, which in any other year would have guaranteed a place at high table. But India lost their semi-final to New Zealand (Sharma c Latham b Henry 1), and he was not the only opener to make hay. Roy’s return from injury gave England’s stuttering World Cup the shot of adrenalin it needed, then he struggled in the Ashes. Starc also broke a World Cup record (27 wickets), but was entrusted by Australia’s selectors with a single Ashes Test; come mid-September, he felt sidelined. Hazlewood was superb, but not even his side’s best bowler.

For the chosen Five, there were few such quibbles. Jofra Archer vied with Ben Stokes (selected in 2016, and so ineligible) as the all-format player of the summer. Pat Cummins was relentless with white ball and red, the Platonic ideal of a fast bowler. Simon Harmer’s off-breaks (as well as his occasional captaincy and lower-order hitting) inspired Essex to a unique Championship/Twenty20 double. Marnus Labuschagne piled up runs for Glamorgan, then somehow ensured Australia’s batting lost little for the absence of Steve Smith (like Stokes, a winner in 2016). Ellyse Perry bestrode the (women’s) Ashes like a colossus, or possibly a colossa. Excellence, influence: you name it, they displayed it.

Was there a case for plucking the Five solely from those involved in the World Cup and the (men’s) Ashes, the summer’s two highest-profile events? Perhaps, but the credentials of Harmer and Perry seemed stronger. County cricket and the women’s game did not deserve to be ignored.

The Five Cricketers have never claimed to represent the five best players of the previous summer; there are plenty of awards for that. Instead, they represent a one-off invitation to a hall of fame that now includes over 600 members. It’s possible no set of Five has set such high standards.
https://www.wisden.com/almanack/wisden-cricketers-of-the-year-the-trickiest-of-selections-almanack
 
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