Ben Stokes and Nat Sciver win ICC Cricketer of the Year awards

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Ben Stokes leads the England squad disconnected the tract aft beating Pakistan

England Test skipper Ben Stokes has been named ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year for 2022.

All-rounder Stokes, 31, took implicit the captaincy from Joe Root successful April 2022 and has won 9 of his 10 Tests successful charge.

Before his appointment, England had won conscionable 1 Test successful 17 matches.

Alongside caller manager Brendon McCullum, Stokes transformed England's Test fortunes with an attacking attack and mindset.

The ICC said Stokes "defined the twelvemonth of Test cricket much than immoderate other".

It is the 2nd clip Stokes has claimed the grant - antecedently winning successful 2019 - and helium was besides named successful the ICC's Test Team of the Year for 2022.

Stokes scored 870 runs astatine an mean of 36.25 and took 26 wickets astatine an mean of 31.19 during the twelvemonth but it is his enactment that had the biggest power connected England's performances.

With his affirmative benignant and committedness to entertaining, Stokes led England to bid wins implicit New Zealand and South Africa astatine home, triumph implicit India successful a one-off postponed Test earlier finishing the twelvemonth with a phenomenal 3-0 cleanable expanse successful Pakistan - the archetypal visiting broadside to ever triumph 3 Tests successful the country.

Sciver named women's ODI subordinate of the year

Nat Sciver celebrating her period v Australia successful the World Cup final

England all-rounder Nat Sciver won the ICC Women's One-Day International (ODI) subordinate of the twelvemonth for her awesome 2022 with the bat.

Sciver, 30, scored 5 half-centuries and 2 centuries, including her maiden Test 100 against South Africa successful June.

She besides scored a stunning unbeaten 148 successful the World Cup last decision by Australia successful March.

Only South Africa's Laura Wolvaardt scored much ODI runs than Sciver's 833 successful 2022.

Sciver took a interruption from the game aft captaining England during the Commonwealth Games, wherever they finished fourth, to support her intelligence health.

But she returned to the broadside successful England's cleanable expanse implicit West Indies successful December and has returned to her relation arsenic vice-captain for the upcoming T20 World Cup.