The performance of Australia’s left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been amazing for some time now. Due to this, he won the Allan Border Medal Award.
Let us tell you that this award is given to the Australian male player whose performance last year is the best.
Allan Border Medal Award is Australia’s biggest cricket award and the player is selected by voting for it.
Australian players, media, and umpires vote for the candidate in this and then the one who gets the most votes wins the Allan Border Medal Award.
Mitchell Starc also won the T20 Player award
Last year Mitchell Marsh has play well but lost this award by just 1 vote.
But he was awarded the Men’s T20 Player of the Year award this year.
T20 World Cup last year Marsh make 77 runs in the final, due to which in last match he becomes Man of Match.
During the Voting period, Mitchell gets 684 runs with an average of 34.2. He also gets the ODI Male Cricketer of the Year Award.
Australian player Travis Head also gets the Men’s Test Player of the Year award.
However, when it comes to women, Ashley Gardner won the Bolinda Clark Award, in which she get a total of 54 votes.
Apart from this, Starc’s performance in the T20 World Cup to be held last year was also tremendous for Australia.
He help team Australia in winning the Ashes series.
Mitchell Starc won Allan Border Award
Australia’s fast bowler Mitchell Starc and brilliant all-rounder Mitchell Marsh saw a close contest for the Allan Border Medal Award.
Marsh got 106 votes for this award while Stark won the award by getting only 1 vote more than Mitchell.
During the voting period, Mitchell Starc took 43 wickets in all three formats with an average of 24.4.