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CWI/WIPA Awards

The CWI/WIPA Awards are a set of annual cricket awards given jointly by the Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA). The awards recognise and honour the best West Indian international and domestic cricketers of the past season. The awards were known as WIPA Awards until 2013 when the CWI, then known as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), and WIPA decided to jointly host the awards function.

History

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The West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) started the WIPA Awards in 2004, with First Citizens Bank as its title sponsor.[1] The awards were called "First Citizens WIPA Awards" for the first nine years, after which WIPA and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) agreed to jointly organize and fund the awards with the function being renamed as "WICB/WIPA Awards".[2] After West Indies Cricket Board was renamed as Cricket West Indies, the awards have come to be known as "CWI/WIPA Awards".

The winners of the awards are selected by a panel of judges which mainly consists of eminent former cricketers from the West Indies. The panel of judges for the inaugural awards in 2004 included Ian Bishop, Joey Carew, Tony Cozier, Gordon Greenidge, Gus Logie, Vivian Richards and Ricky Skerritt.[1]

Brian Lara won the first ever WIPA Player of the Year Award in 2004[1] and went on to win it the following two years as well to complete a hat-trick. Apart from Lara, three cricketers have won the award more than once: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008 and 2009), Chris Gayle (2007 and 2011) and Marlon Samuels (2013 and 2016). Chanderpaul has won the Test Player of the Year award four times (2008, 2009, 2013 and 2014), the most by any player, while the ODI Player of the Year has been won twice each by Chanderpaul, Gayle and Samuels. The T20I Player of the Year award was introduced in 2010 and only Sunil Narine has won it more than once (in 2013 and 2014).

The only award in women's cricket, Women's Player of the Year, has been won by Stafanie Taylor for a record nine times, including eight wins in succession from 2009 to 2016.[3][4]

List of winners

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WIPA Awards

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2004

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From 2004 to 2006, Brian Lara won the Player of the Year award thrice and Test Player of the Year award twice.

The awards function was held on 17 March 2004 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[1]

2005

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The awards function was held on 31 May 2005 in Kingston, Jamaica.[5]

2006

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The awards function was held on 24 May 2006 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[6]

2007

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The awards function was held on 12 February 2007 in Bridgetown, Barbados.[7]

2008

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul won all three major awards in 2008.

The awards function was held on 30 March 2008 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[8]

2009

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The awards function was held on 12 March 2009 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[9]

2010

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The awards function was held on 8 June 2010 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[10]

2011

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Chris Gayle won his second Player of the Year award in 2011.

The awards function was held on 5 June 2011 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[11]

2012

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The awards function was held on 13 April 2012 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[12]

WICB/WIPA Awards

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2013

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The awards function was held on 4 July 2013 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.[13]

2014

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The awards function was held on 5 June 2014 in Kingston, Jamaica.[14]

2015

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The awards function was held on 9 June 2015 in Kingston, Jamaica.[15]

2016

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Stafanie Taylor won the Women's Player of the Year for the eighth successive year in 2016.

The awards function was held on 19 July 2016 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.[4]

CWI/WIPA Awards

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2017

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The awards function was held on 7 July 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica.[16]

2018

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The awards function was held on 20 June 2018 in Bridgetown, Barbados.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Lara named WIPA International Cricketer-of-the-Year". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  2. ^ "CRICKET: WICB and WIPA agree to jointly stage the 2013 players' awards ceremony". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Benn, Taylor claim the night as cricket salutes excellence". The Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Samuels named West Indies Cricketer of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Lara dominates WIPA awards". The Trinidad Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Captain wins third Players' award". The Trinidad Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Gayle cops top prize at WIPA Awards". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  8. ^ "WIPA Awards – Chanderpaul collects major awards". The Trinidad Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  9. ^ "Chanderpaul wins WIPA 'International Cricketer of the Year' award". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Sarwan clinches top honours at WIPA ceremony". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  11. ^ "Gayle, Taylor top WIPA awards". The Jamaica Star. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  12. ^ "Major accolades for Bishoo". Trinidad Express. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  13. ^ "Marlon Samuels named West Indies' Cricketer of the Year". NDTV. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  14. ^ "Chanderpaul receives Test Player-of-the-Year award at WICB/WIPA awards ceremony". Stabroek News. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  15. ^ "Benn named West Indies' Player of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  16. ^ "Roston Chase sweeps West Indies awards night". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Shai Hope, Stafanie Taylor clean up at CWI Awards". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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