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The Australian Cricket Awards ceremony recognises the best players in the country, male and female, and feature the Allan Border Medal and Belinda Clark Award.
Held each year at the end of the Australian summer of cricket, the 2020 instalment will also see Craig McDermott and Sharon Tredrea inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.
Here’s all the information you need to know about tonight’s awards ceremony.
Start time
The 2020 Australian Cricket Awards will be held tonight, Monday February 10, beginning at 7pm (AEDT). The ceremony will run for two hours and is scheduled to finish at 9pm.
Venue
As always, the venue for the night is Crown Melbourne.
Broadcast information: How to live stream and watch on TV
If you’ve been watching much cricket this summer, the Australian Cricket Awards will be on a couple of familiar channels. Fox Cricket and the Seven Network, via their 7mate channel, are both showing the event live on TV from 7pm.
If you’d rather stream the action, you can follow along on Kayo Sports or Foxtel Go or Now. You’ll just need to make sure you have a valid subscription for whichever platform you’re using, although Kayo does offer a free 14-day trial for new customers.
Who’s going to win?
It’s going to take a remarkable effort for anyone to prevent Pat Cummins from winning back-to-back Allan Border Medals. The fast bowler was crowned the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year for 2019 and also played leading roles in the limited-overs teams.
Both Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner may provide some competition to Cummins, Warner on the back of his outstanding World Cup and white-ball form later in the year, and Labuschagne for his remarkable form in the Test arena this summer.
However, both players have some flaws in their claims to the award. Warner hardly scored a run all Ashes, while Labuschagne wasn’t a regular member of the Test team until midway through that series and wasn’t included in the ODI side until last month.
Alyssa Healy is the reigning winner of the Belinda Clark award, but it’s teammate Ellyse Perry who is the favourite to take out this year’s gong. Perry was outstanding with bat and ball all year, so much so she won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year and ODI Cricketer of the Year. Healy was named ICC T20 Cricketer of the Year for the second year in a row, so probably stands as the biggest threat to Perry for the Belinda Clark Award.
If she does win it tonight, it would be Perry’s third such award, having also taken it out in 2016 and 2018. That would draw her level with Meg Lanning’s tally, although she’d still be one shy of Shelley Nitschke, who has four to her name – all won when it was called the Women’s International Cricketer of the Year, prior to being renamed in 2013.
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