ICC Men's Test Team of the Year

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

Winners

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	Ricky Ponting (c)	Jacques Kallis	Brian Lara	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Adam Gilchrist (wk)	Shane Warne	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	Glenn McGrath	Brett Lee
2007^[4]	Matthew Hayden	Michael Vaughan	Ricky Ponting (c)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kevin Pietersen	Michael Hussey	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Stuart Clark	Makhaya Ntini	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	Muttiah Muralitharan	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	MS Dhoni (c/wk)	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	Dale Steyn	James Anderson	Zaheer Khan
2012^[10]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara	Jacques Kallis	Michael Clarke (c)	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Matt Prior (wk)	Stuart Broad	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)	Stuart Broad	Trent Boult	Yasir Shah	Josh Hazlewood	Ravichandran Ashwin
2016^[15]		Alastair Cook (c)	Kane Williamson	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)	Rishabh Pant (wk)	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

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	England		5	0	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	Australia				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	Sri Lanka				2004, 2005
	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies				2008, 2012
	Brian Lara	West Indies				2004, 2005
	Usman Khawaja	Australia				2022, 2023
	Stuart Clark			1	1	2007, 2008
	Brett Lee			1	1	2006, 2008
	Zaheer Khan	India		0	2	2007, 2011

Appearances by nation

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

References

^ "ICC announces official World XI Test Team of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Kallis, Flintoff share player of the year award". ABC News (Australia). AFP/Reuters. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Ponting dominates ICC awards". ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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^ "Chanderpaul tops list of ICC award winners". ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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[1] "ICC announces official World XI Test Team of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[2] "Kallis, Flintoff share player of the year award". ABC News (Australia). AFP/Reuters. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[3] "Ponting dominates ICC awards". ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[4] "ICC names World Test Team of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[5] "Chanderpaul tops list of ICC award winners". ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[6] "Dhoni leads Test Team of Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[7] "Tendulkar named ICC Cricketer of the Year". The National. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[8] "Dhoni leads ICC Test Team of Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

[9] "England dominate ICC Test team of the year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[10] "Clarke named captain of ICC Test Team of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[11] "ICC announces Test and ODI Teams of the Year". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[12] "ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2014 announced". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[13] "ICC Test teams of the year for 2014". wwos.nine.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[14] "ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2015 announced". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[15] "Icc Test and Odi Teams of the Year Announced - Media Releases | ICC Awards News International Cricket Council". Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[16] "ICC Awards: Men's Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2017 announced". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[17] "Virat Kohli first player to bag top three ICC awards in single year". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 22 January 2019.

[18] "Stokes wins Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 15 January 2020.

[19] "ICC Men's Test Team of the Year revealed". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 20 January 2022.

[20] "ICC Men's Test Team of the Year 2022 revealed". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 24 January 2023.

[21] "WTC23 champions Australia lead the way in ICC Men's Test Team of the Year 2023". ICC. Retrieved 23 January 2024.

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