Allan Border Medal

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Allan Border Medalist: Michael Clarke
One Day International Player of the Year: Andrew Symonds
Test Player of the Year: Damien Martyn
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year: Mark Cosgrove
State Player of the Year: Andy Bichel
Woman's International Cricketer of the Year: Karen Rolton

Well Done Clarkey! Well deserved

 

[groobz]

Well deserved indeed,, i feel bad for langer missing out though, what a year he had.

 

[Will p]

Yeah, everyonr forgot bout langer, martyn and clarke got all the attention!

 

[sachinisgod]

investments are supposed to be made for the future...

 

[sohum]

It's hardly an investment though....isn't it an award? You usually honor the past... I mean talk about all those famous poets/authors who become famous 10 years after they die.

 

[littlegenius90]

hmm strange nothing for Gilly or Langer...
thats bad...

 

[sachin]

what did gilly do this year?not as much as martyn.or clarke.about symonds:i was quite supriseed because i hadn't heard of the game earlier in the year so i presumed he'd had a shocker.

 

[sachinisgod]

It's hardly an investment though....isn't it an award? You usually honor the past... I mean talk about all those famous poets/authors who become famous 10 years after they die.

in my view recognition of this kind does fire the appetite of a player for more success...its good to honour the greats of the past but we have to make sure that enough carrots are dangling in front of the greats of the future...thats the way CA must have looked at it...

btw Gilly has scored at least a couple of blistering and matchwinning centuries...but thats his wont now...

 

[littlegenius90]

ya u r right gilly didnt do much in this year
His Test matches where ok did a good job in oneday though averaging 43+...
but what it was a close call between Langer and Martyn
they both had a great year almost 1500 runs!!!

 

[sachin]

yeah i forgot about langer (how i forgot is a mystery to me).

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Have you noticed it is always batsmen who win these awards....not bowlers......

 

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Glenn McGrath won it not so long ago

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Glenn McGrath won it not so long ago

Five of the six Border medallists have been batsmen.Bichel was the only bowler. Mcgrath was, If I recall correctly, the only bowler to win the Border Medal.Click Here

 

[duffarama]

Clarke only played 4 out of the last 12 months so that is quite an effort to pull off an AB Medal.

 

[MWaugh]

clarke got the medal mainly due to his awesome one day form. i think the huge importance of the indian tour to the australians was one of the reasons why martyn got so close. also langer from memory didnt do a whole lot. martyn almost equaled bradmans record going for like 4 tons in 4 matches or something. he got to like 97 trying in india and from memory about 60 in sydney against pakistan. langer had a good year but martyn put up some really big numbers. as for symonds. to get an award and have scored like 4 ducks from 5 knocks is a pretty mean effort. it was his work in sri lanka that did it, along with england