Alyssa Healy and Pat Cummins land major Australian cricket honours

  • Healy sweeps three women’s awards
  • Nathan Lyon named Test player of the year

Pat Cummins has capped the finest year of his career by winning the Allan Border medal, edging out Nathan Lyon to be named Australia’s leading men’s cricketer, while Alyssa Healy comfortably won the Belinda Clark award as the country’s top women’s player ahead of Megan Schutt and Ashleigh Gardiner.

Paceman Cummins polled 156 votes to surpass Test player of the year Lyon (150) and limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch (146) in Monday night’s count. Allrounder Marcus Stoinis was named men’s ODI player of the year and Glenn Maxwell surprisingly won the T20 international award.

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