National Team Captain Steven Smith won the Allan Border Medal for Australia's Test Player of the Year. Also one of the ODI players of the year, Marcus opener David Warner has been selected. Cricket Australia (CA) gave the award at a glittering ceremony in Melbourne last night.
Smith, who played his last match in Test cricket last year, He scored 1305 runs in 11 innings in the 20 innings. He was the highest run collector in the world in this format. Aussi captain has made six hundreds with three half-centuries. Smith scored three centuries in a Test series against India and England In the third Test of the Ashes series, he scored a double-century and scored 239 runs.
Smith, who won the Border Award for the second time in his career due to his outstanding performance in Test format. He won the award for the first time in 2015. This right-handed batsman won the award by getting 246 votes. Warner was second to get 162 votes. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon was the only third with six votes, which means 156 votes. Australia's two former captains Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke won the Allan Border Medal for the highest four-time history in 19 years.
Auckel wins the medal for the second time, said Andrew Smith, "Of course, the year was great for me. I had 100 percent success in two series of batting. Similarly, I will try to play better in the future and lead the team from the front so that the team can win. "So far in Australia, Smith has scored 23 centuries and 6057 runs in 61 matches.
Warner was the highest run-scorer for Australia in ODIs in the year 2017. However, he was ranked 15th in the list of the highest runs in the world in ODIs. The left-hander has scored 691 runs in 13 matches. He is a limited-overs player of the year.
Opener Aaron Finch was selected as the best player of the small format. The right-hander batsman had 158 runs in 5 matches. 21 year old J Richardson is the youngest player of the year Bradman.
source:ittefaq