Surprising Aussie selection in ICC Test team of the year
Five Australians have been selected in the ICC’s official team of the year in recognition of a stellar year, but one selection might surprise you.
Five Australian players have been named in the men’s ICC Test team of the year for 2023, with Alex Carey’s selection the major surprise.
Carey has become a fixture behind the stumps for Australia and while he’s been near faultless with the gloves, his most noteworthy moment of 2023 came when he ran out Jonny Bairstow after his English counterpart wandered out of his crease at Lord’s.
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No wicketkeeper had more dismissals than Carey in 2023. With 54 dismissals (44 catches and 10 stumpings) in 12 matches, Carey was head and shoulders above the rest, with the next keeper on the list – West Indies’ Joshua Da Silva – registering only 31 dismissals.
The 32-year-old also had a solid year with the bat, scoring 44 off 68 balls in the first and an unbeaten 66 in the second that took the game away from India in the World Test Championship Final.
He followed it up with another fifty against England in the first Ashes Test and finished the year on a high with a fifty against Pakistan.
Pat Cummins was named captain of the ICC Test team of the year, while Usman Khawaja, Travis Head and Mitchell Starc were also selected.
Indian spin duo Ravindra Jadeja and Ravi Ashwin were picked, as was recently retired England fast bowler Stuart Broad.
Head and Adam Zampa were named in the ICC ODI team of the year, which featured three Indian bowlers, three Indian batters as well as South African pair Heinrich Klaasen and Marco Jansen.
Australia’s dominant women’s team featured heavily in the ICC ODI team of the year, with youngster Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Ash Garder and Annabel Sutherland all getting the nod.
Mooney, Perry, Gardner and fast bowler Megan Schutt were also named in the ICC women’s T20I team of the year.
The Australian Test summer wraps up with a day-night Test against the West Indies beginning on Thursday in Brisbane.
ICC Men’s Test team of the year
Usman Khawaja, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kane Williamson, Joe Root, Travis Head, Ravindra Jadeja, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Ravi Ashwin, Mitchell Starc, Stuart Broad
ICC Men’s ODI team of the year
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Travis Head, Virat Kohli, Daryl Mitchell, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Marco Jansen, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami
ICC Men’s T20I team of the year
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Phil Salt, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Suryakumar Yadav (c), Mark Chapman, Sikandar Raza, Alpesh Ramjani, Mark Adair, Ravi Bishnoi, Richard Ngarava, Arshdeep Singh
ICC Women’s ODI team of the year
Phoebe Litchfield, Chamari Athapaththu (c), Ellyse Perry, Amelia Kerr, Beth Mooney (wk), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Ash Gardner, Annabel Sutherland, Nadine de Klerk, Lea Tahuhu, Nahida Akter
ICC Women’s T20I team of the year
Chamari Athapaththu (c), Beth Mooney (wk), Laura Wolvaardt, Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Megan Schutt
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