England's Ben Stokes and Nat Sciver win ICC annual awards

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England Test captain Ben Stokes and all-rounder Nat Sciver have won ICC cricketer of the year 2022 awards.

An overview of the news

• All-rounder Stokes was named the Men's Test Cricketer of the Year, while Sciver won the Rachael Hayhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year.

• Sciver, 30, is also named Women's one-day international (ODI) Cricketer of the Year.

• The 31-year-old Stokes took over the Test captaincy from Joe Root in April 2022 and has won nine of his 10 Tests in charge.

• Stokes previously won the overall Men's Cricketer of the Year award in 2019.

• Babar Azam has been given the Men's ODI Player of the Year award (Sobers Trophy), before Pakistan's Shaheen Shah Afridi won the award for 2021.

ICC awards winners for 2022

• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy: Babar Azam (Pakistan)

• Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy: Nat Sciver (England)

• Men's Test Cricketer of the Year: Ben Stokes (England)

• Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year: Babar Azam

• Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year: Nat Sciver

• Men's T20 International Cricketer of the Year: Suryakumar Yadav (India)

• Women's T20 International Cricketer of the Year: Tahlia McGrath (Australia) 

• Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Marco Jansen (South Africa)

• Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Renuka Singh (India)

• Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year: Gerhard Erasmus (Namibia)

• Women's Associate Cricketer of the Year: Esha Oza (India)

• David Shepherd Trophy: Richard Illingworth (England)

• Spirit of Cricket Award: Aasif Sheikh (Nepal)