- Allan Border Medal to be held in Melbourne
- Will crown the very best cricketers within the nation
- This yr’s ceremony can have a significant change
Whoever wins the Allan Border Medal, they are going to be accepting the award by way of video hyperlink.
Travis Head is the robust favorite to be topped the highest Australian males’s cricketer for the primary time in the course of the awards ceremony at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on Monday evening.
Stand-in Australia captain Steve Smith has tipped Head, the main runscorer within the Border-Gavaskar trophy triumph, to win the Allan Border Medal.
‘I will go Travis Head, he is had a reasonably good yr in all codecs. That is my tip,’ Smith stated after Australia’s crushing win towards Sri Lanka.
In the course of the voting interval that began with Australia’s house Take a look at collection towards West Indies in January 2024, the left-handed dynamo notched up 1427 worldwide runs throughout all codecs.
However attributable to a quirk of the scheduling, all of Australia’s prime males’s cricketers will nonetheless be in Sri Lanka and will not be within the room in Melbourne.
Travis Head, pictured with spouse Jessica Davies, is the raging favorite to win the Allan Border Medal this yr
Australian captain Pat Cummins, pictured with spouse Becky, is the one participant prone to problem Head for the main medal
Australian cricket glamour couple Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc might additionally characteristic within the awards
Captain Pat Cummins is realistically Head’s solely actual menace for the medal, having carried out strongly within the disappointing T20 World Cup marketing campaign, earlier than starring within the five-Take a look at collection towards India.
If Cummins wins his second Allan Border Medal, then he might be accepting the award from Sydney with a new child child on his lap.
Cummins has missed the tour of Sri Lanka because of the impending beginning of his second little one.
He first gained the medal again in 2019, with axed Take a look at allrounder Mitch Marsh claiming an emotional and surprising victory final yr.
Marsh, who has been dominated out of the Champions Trophy attributable to an ongoing again subject, gave an instantly-iconic acceptance speech that gave additional significance to the awards evening.
Whereas solely males’s white-ball gamers will probably be in attendance, the all-conquering girls’s facet will probably be celebrated in individual after finishing a historic Ashes whitewash of England.
Australia gained all seven video games of the collection, culminating in a ruthless innings and 122-run thumping of their rivals within the day-night Take a look at on the MCG.
Allrounder Ashleigh Gardner will probably be in robust competition to win back-to-back Belinda Clark Awards to present her a 3rd victory in 4 years.
However Take a look at celebrity Annabel Sutherland and constant all-format gun Beth Mooney will even be vying for the honour.
Spin star Alana King was topped participant of the Ashes after bamboozling England with a record-equalling 23 wickets, however her lack of T20 matches will probably her value a shot at successful the award for the primary time.
