ICC Men's Test Team of the Year

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The ICC Men's Test Team of the Year is an honour awarded each year by the International Cricket Council. It recognises the top cricket players from around the world in the Test format of the game. The team does not actually compete, but exists solely as an honorary entity.

ICC Men's Test Team of Year

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Winners

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Players marked bold won the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:

Year No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 12th man
2004[1]   Matthew Hayden   Herschelle Gibbs   Ricky Ponting (c)   Rahul Dravid   Brian Lara   Jacques Kallis   Adam Gilchrist (wk)   Chaminda Vaas   Shane Warne   Jason Gillespie   Steve Harmison
2005[2]   Virender Sehwag   Graeme Smith   Jacques Kallis   Inzamam-ul-Haq   Andrew Flintoff   Adam Gilchrist (wk)   Chaminda Vaas   Glenn McGrath   Anil Kumble
2006[3]   Matthew Hayden   Michael Hussey   Ricky Ponting   Rahul Dravid (c)   Mohammad Yousuf   Kumar Sangakkara (wk)   Andrew Flintoff   Shane Warne   Makhaya Ntini   Muttiah Muralitharan   Brett Lee
2007[4]   Michael Vaughan   Ricky Ponting (c)   Mohammad Yousuf   Kevin Pietersen   Michael Hussey   Kumar Sangakkara (wk)   Stuart Clark   Mohammad Asif   Muttiah Muralitharan   Zaheer Khan
2008[5]   Graeme Smith (c)   Virender Sehwag   Mahela Jayawardene   Shivnarine Chanderpaul   Kevin Pietersen   Jacques Kallis   Kumar Sangakkara (wk)   Brett Lee   Ryan Sidebottom   Dale Steyn   Stuart Clark
2009[6]   Gautam Gambhir   Andrew Strauss   AB de Villiers   Sachin Tendulkar   Thilan Samaraweera   Michael Clarke   MS Dhoni (c/wk)   Shakib Al Hasan   Mitchell Johnson   Stuart Broad   Dale Steyn   Harbhajan Singh
2010[7][8]   Virender Sehwag   Simon Katich   Sachin Tendulkar   Hashim Amla   Kumar Sangakkara   Jacques Kallis   Graeme Swann   James Anderson   Dale Steyn   Doug Bollinger
2011[9]   Alastair Cook   Hashim Amla   Jonathan Trott   Sachin Tendulkar   Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk)   AB de Villiers   Jacques Kallis   Stuart Broad   Graeme Swann   James Anderson   Zaheer Khan
2012[10]   Alastair Cook   Hashim Amla   Kumar Sangakkara   Jacques Kallis   Michael Clarke (c)   Shivnarine Chanderpaul   Matt Prior (wk)   Saeed Ajmal   Vernon Philander   Dale Steyn   AB de Villiers
2013[11]   Alastair Cook (c)   Cheteshwar Pujara   Hashim Amla   Michael Clarke   Michael Hussey   AB de Villiers   MS Dhoni (wk)   Graeme Swann   Dale Steyn   James Anderson   Vernon Philander   Ravichandran Ashwin
2014[12][13]   David Warner   Kane Williamson   Kumar Sangakkara   AB de Villiers (wk)   Joe Root   Angelo Mathews (c)   Mitchell Johnson   Stuart Broad   Dale Steyn   Rangana Herath   Tim Southee   Ross Taylor
2015[14]   Alastair Cook (c)   Kane Williamson   Younis Khan   Steve Smith   Joe Root   Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)   Trent Boult   Yasir Shah   Josh Hazlewood   Ravichandran Ashwin
2016[15]   Joe Root   Adam Voges   Jonny Bairstow (wk)   Ben Stokes   Ravichandran Ashwin   Rangana Herath   Mitchell Starc   Dale Steyn   Steve Smith
2017[16]   Dean Elgar   David Warner   Virat Kohli (c)   Steve Smith   Cheteshwar Pujara   Ben Stokes   Quinton de Kock (wk)   Ravichandran Ashwin   Mitchell Starc   Kagiso Rabada   James Anderson
2018[17]   Tom Latham   Dimuth Karunaratne   Kane Williamson   Virat Kohli (c)   Henry Nicholls   Rishabh Pant (wk)   Jason Holder   Kagiso Rabada   Nathan Lyon   Jasprit Bumrah   Mohammad Abbas
2019[18]   Mayank Agarwal   Tom Latham   Marnus Labuschagne   Virat Kohli (c)   Steve Smith   Ben Stokes   BJ Watling (wk)   Pat Cummins   Mitchell Starc   Neil Wagner   Nathan Lyon
2021[19]   Dimuth Karunaratne   Rohit Sharma   Joe Root   Kane Williamson (c)   Fawad Alam   Rishabh Pant (wk)  Ravichandran Ashwin   Kyle Jamieson   Hasan Ali   Shaheen Afridi
2022[20]   Usman Khawaja   Kraigg Brathwaite   Babar Azam   Jonny Bairstow   Ben Stokes (c)  Pat Cummins   Kagiso Rabada   Nathan Lyon   James Anderson
2023[21]   Usman Khawaja   Dimuth Karunaratne   Kane Williamson   Joe Root   Travis Head   Ravindra Jadeja   Alex Carey (wk)  Pat Cummins (c)   Ravichandran Ashwin   Mitchell Starc   Stuart Broad

Superlatives

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Players marked bold are still active in Test matches and years marked bold indicate they won the ICC Test Player of the Year in that respective year:

# Player Team Appearances First XI 12th man Years
1 Dale Steyn   South Africa 8 8 0 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
2 Kumar Sangakkara   Sri Lanka 7 7 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
3 Jacques Kallis   South Africa 6 6 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
Stuart Broad   England 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2023
Kane Williamson   New Zealand 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023
Ravichandran Ashwin   India 4 2 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023
4 Alastair Cook   England 5 5 0 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
James Anderson 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022
AB de Villiers   South Africa 4 1 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Joe Root   England 5 0 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023
5 Ricky Ponting   Australia 4 4 0 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
David Warner 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Hashim Amla   South Africa 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Ben Stokes   England 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
Steve Smith   Australia 3 1 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
Mitchell Starc 4 0 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023
6 Michael Clarke 3 3 0 2009, 2012, 2013
Marnus Labuschagne 2019, 2021, 2022
Matthew Hayden 2004, 2006, 2007
Michael Hussey 2006, 2007, 2013
Shane Warne 2004, 2005, 2006
Nathan Lyon 2018, 2019, 2022
Graeme Swann   England 2010, 2011, 2013
MS Dhoni   India 2009, 2010, 2013
Virat Kohli 2017, 2018, 2019
Virender Sehwag 2005, 2008, 2010
Sachin Tendulkar 2009, 2010, 2011
Kagiso Rabada   South Africa 2017, 2018, 2022
Muttiah Muralitharan   Sri Lanka 2006, 2007, 2008
Pat Cummins   Australia 2019, 2022, 2023
Dimuth Karunaratne   Sri Lanka 2018, 2021, 2023
7 Adam Gilchrist   Australia 2 2 0 2004, 2005
Mitchell Johnson 2009, 2014
Glenn McGrath 2005, 2006
Andrew Flintoff   England 2005, 2006
Kevin Pietersen 2007, 2008
Jonny Bairstow 2016, 2022
Rahul Dravid   India 2004, 2006
Cheteshwar Pujara 2013, 2017
Rishabh Pant 2021, 2022
Tom Latham   New Zealand 2018, 2019
Mohammad Yousuf   Pakistan 2006, 2007
Makhaya Ntini   South Africa 2006, 2007
Vernon Philander 2012, 2013
Graeme Smith 2005, 2008
Rangana Herath   Sri Lanka 2014, 2016
Chaminda Vaas 2004, 2005
Shivnarine Chanderpaul   West Indies 2008, 2012
Brian Lara 2004, 2005
Usman Khawaja   Australia 2022, 2023
Stuart Clark 1 1 2007, 2008
Brett Lee 2006, 2008
Zaheer Khan   India 0 2 2007, 2011

Appearances by nation

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Country 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 Total
  Australia 5 4 6 4 2 2 2 1 2 2 3 4 3 1 5 1 4 5 56
  England 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 5 3 3 2 3 4 2 1 1 3 2 40
  South Africa 2 2 1 1 3 2 3 4 5 4 2 1 3 1 1 35
  India 1 2 1 1 1 4 3 2 3 1 1 3 3 2 3 1 2 34
  Sri Lanka 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 20
  New Zealand 3 2 1 3 3 2 1 15
  Pakistan 1 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 13
  West Indies 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
  Bangladesh 1 1

See also

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References

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