Kagiso Rabada, world’s number one Test bowler, was on Saturday named South Africa’s Cricketer of the Year. This is Rabada’s second South African Cricketer of the Year award. He had previously won the award in 2016. With this, Rabada joined Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini and AB de Villiers as two-time winners.
Rabada collected a total of six awards, including Test cricketer of the year, one-day international player of the year and players’ player of the year.
In that period, Rabada took 72 wickets at an average of 19.52 in 12 Test matches.
During Australia’s controversial four-match Test series, the 23-year-old was also adjudged as the Man of the Series. However, he was banned for one Test in England after he reached a demerit points threshold — and would have missed the last two Tests against Australia earlier this year if he had not appealed successfully against a verdict that would have brought a two-match ban for reaching a second threshold.
