Sutherland, Maxwell win Awards

Two Stars have taken out major awards at last night's Cricket Australia awards.

Melbourne Stars WBBL Captain Annabel Sutherland took out last night's Belinda Clark Award, the highest individual honour in Australian women's cricket.

At a ceremony which celebrated an incredible year of results for Australia’s women’s and men’s teams, Sutherland won her first Belinda Clark Award, less than a week after scoring a century in the CommBank Women’s Ashes Test against England at the MCG. 

Sutherland was outstanding in all formats throughout a season in which the Australia completed a summer sweep, with series victories against India, New Zealand and England without losing a match. 

A member of the ICC ODI Team of the Year, Sutherland was also outstanding in the two Test matches Australia played. She scored 210 against South Africa in Perth at the end of last season before becoming the first woman to hit a Test century at the MCG in a Player of the Match performance against England. 

Across all formats, Sutherland scored 798 runs at 46.94 and took 34 wickets at 20.82.  

Belinda Clark Award

Annabel Sutherland, 168 votes

Ashleigh Gardner, 143 votes

Beth Mooney, 115 votes  

 

Meanwhile, Glenn Maxwell was awared the BBL|14 Player of the Tournament along with Cooper Connolly 

The WBBL and BBL Player of the Tournament awards are decided by the standing umpires in each home and away season match, with each submitting votes on a 3-2-1 basis.

Perry and Jonassen could not be split after polling 25 votes apiece in their stellar WBBL|10 campaigns.

The award for the outstanding player in BBL|14 was also shared between Maxwell and Connolly, two of the League’s most exciting players who each polled 18 umpires’ votes.

After missing two matches due to injury, veteran Maxwell struck 297 runs at a strike rate of 194.12 and average of 59.4 as the Melbourne Stars charged into the Finals with five straight wins. He sits third on the League’s all-time run-scoring chart.

Tim David (Hobart Hurricanes, 16 votes), Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades, 14 votes) and Tom Rogers (Melbourne Renegades, 13 votes) rounded out the top five.

KFC BBL|14 Player of the Tournament

Glenn Maxwell (Melbourne Stars, 18 votes)

Cooper Connolly (Perth Scorchers, 18 votes)

Tim David (Hobart Hurricanes, 16 votes)

Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades, 14 votes)

Tom Rogers (Melbourne Renegades, 13 votes)

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