Pakistan's Shaheen Afridi and India's Smriti Mandhana were named the ICC Men's and Women's Cricketers of the Year 2021 after game's governing body revealed the winners of annual cricket awards. Babar Azam bagged the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021 while South Africa's Marais Erasmus was lauded for his umpiring skills. Erasmus, who is a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires, won the ICC Umpire of the Year 2021. South Africa's top-ranked batswoman Lizelle Lee clinched the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021 award. ICC, a day ago, named the winners of their yearly awards in the following categories-- Emerging Cricketer of the Year, T20I Cricketer of the Year and also the Associate Cricketer of the Year for both men's and women's cricket. ICC Awards 2021: Categories, Nominees, Dates and All You Need To Know About the Event

Mohammad Rizwan headlined the honours as he bagged the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year, after having a sensational year with the willow in the format. The right-hander absolutely dominated T20I cricket in 2021 with a total of 1326 runs in 29 matches. He was also brilliant in the T20 World Cup 2021 where he gave his team good starts with the willow.

Tammy Beaumont, who is also a wicketkeeper-batsman, bagged the ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021. She was exceptional as well, scoring 303 runs in nine matches. She was England's highest run-scorer in T20Is in 2021. South Africa's Janneman Malan won the ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year while Pakistan's Fatima Sana bagged in women's cricket.

ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021: Babar Azam

ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021: Lizelle Lee

ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021: Mohammad Rizwan

ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021: Tammy Beaumont

ICC Umpire of the Year 2021: Marais Erasmus

ICC Emerging Men's Cricketer of the Year 2021: Janneman Malan

ICC Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2021: Fatima Sana

ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year 2021: Zeeshan Maqsood

ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Year 2021: Andrea-Mae Zepeda

ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2021- Smriti Mandhana

ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year 2021- Shaheen Afridi

The award for the Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year went to Oman captain Zeeshan Maqsood. Andrea-Mae Zepeda from Austria won the award in the women's category.  However that's not it. There are other ICC awards as well, all of which would be announced by January 24.

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