# ICC Men's Test Team of the Year

The ICC Men's Test Team of the Year is an honour awarded each year by the International Cricket Council. It recognises the top cricket players from around the world in the Test format of the game. The team does not actually compete, but exists solely as an honorary entity.

## ICC Men's Test Team of Year
### Winners

Players marked bold won the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year in that respective year:
| Year | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11 | 12th man |
| 2004 | Matthew Hayden | Herschelle Gibbs | Ricky Ponting (c) | Rahul Dravid | Brian Lara | Jacques Kallis | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Chaminda Vaas | Shane Warne | Jason Gillespie | Steve Harmison | |
| 2005 | Virender Sehwag | Graeme Smith | Ricky Ponting (c) | Jacques Kallis | Brian Lara | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Andrew Flintoff | Adam Gilchrist (wk) | Shane Warne | Chaminda Vaas | Glenn McGrath | Anil Kumble |
| 2006 | Matthew Hayden | Michael Hussey | Ricky Ponting | Rahul Dravid (c) | Mohammad Yousuf | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Andrew Flintoff | Shane Warne | Makhaya Ntini | Muttiah Muralitharan | Glenn McGrath | Brett Lee |
| 2007 | Matthew Hayden | Michael Vaughan | Ricky Ponting (c) | Mohammad Yousuf | Kevin Pietersen | Michael Hussey | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Stuart Clark | Makhaya Ntini | Mohammad Asif | Muttiah Muralitharan | Zaheer Khan |
| 2008 | Graeme Smith (c) | Virender Sehwag | Mahela Jayawardene | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Kevin Pietersen | Jacques Kallis | Kumar Sangakkara (wk) | Brett Lee | Ryan Sidebottom | Dale Steyn | Muttiah Muralitharan | Stuart Clark |
| 2009 | Gautam Gambhir | Andrew Strauss | AB de Villiers | Sachin Tendulkar | Thilan Samaraweera | Michael Clarke | MS Dhoni (c/wk) | Shakib Al Hasan | Mitchell Johnson | Stuart Broad | Dale Steyn | Harbhajan Singh |
| 2010 | Virender Sehwag | Simon Katich | Sachin Tendulkar | Hashim Amla | Kumar Sangakkara | Jacques Kallis | MS Dhoni (c/wk) | Graeme Swann | James Anderson | Dale Steyn | Doug Bollinger | |
| 2011 | Alastair Cook | Hashim Amla | Jonathan Trott | Sachin Tendulkar | Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk) | AB de Villiers | Jacques Kallis | Stuart Broad | Graeme Swann | Dale Steyn | James Anderson | Zaheer Khan |
| 2012 | Alastair Cook | Hashim Amla | Kumar Sangakkara | Jacques Kallis | Michael Clarke (c) | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Matt Prior (wk) | Stuart Broad | Saeed Ajmal | Vernon Philander | Dale Steyn | AB de Villiers |
| 2013 | Alastair Cook (c) | Cheteshwar Pujara | Hashim Amla | Michael Clarke | Michael Hussey | AB de Villiers | MS Dhoni (wk) | Graeme Swann | Dale Steyn | James Anderson | Vernon Philander | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| 2014 | David Warner | Kane Williamson | Kumar Sangakkara | AB de Villiers (wk) | Joe Root | Angelo Mathews (c) | Mitchell Johnson | Stuart Broad | Dale Steyn | Rangana Herath | Tim Southee | Ross Taylor |
| 2015 | David Warner | Alastair Cook (c) | Kane Williamson | Younis Khan | Steve Smith | Joe Root | Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk) | Stuart Broad | Trent Boult | Yasir Shah | Josh Hazlewood | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| 2016 | David Warner | Alastair Cook (c) | Kane Williamson | Joe Root | Adam Voges | Jonny Bairstow (wk) | Ben Stokes | Ravichandran Ashwin | Rangana Herath | Mitchell Starc | Dale Steyn | Steve Smith |
| 2017 | Dean Elgar | David Warner | Virat Kohli (c) | Steve Smith | Cheteshwar Pujara | Ben Stokes | Quinton de Kock (wk) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Mitchell Starc | Kagiso Rabada | James Anderson | |
| 2018 | Tom Latham | Dimuth Karunaratne | Kane Williamson | Virat Kohli (c) | Henry Nicholls | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Jason Holder | Kagiso Rabada | Nathan Lyon | Jasprit Bumrah | Mohammad Abbas | |
| 2019 | Mayank Agarwal | Tom Latham | Marnus Labuschagne | Virat Kohli (c) | Steve Smith | Ben Stokes | BJ Watling (wk) | Pat Cummins | Mitchell Starc | Neil Wagner | Nathan Lyon | |
| 2021 | Dimuth Karunaratne | Rohit Sharma | Marnus Labuschagne | Joe Root | Kane Williamson (c) | Fawad Alam | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Kyle Jamieson | Hasan Ali | Shaheen Afridi | |
| 2022 | Usman Khawaja | Kraigg Brathwaite | Marnus Labuschagne | Babar Azam | Jonny Bairstow | Ben Stokes (c) | Rishabh Pant (wk) | Pat Cummins | Kagiso Rabada | Nathan Lyon | James Anderson | |
| 2023 | Usman Khawaja | Dimuth Karunaratne | Kane Williamson | Joe Root | Travis Head | Ravindra Jadeja | Alex Carey (wk) | Pat Cummins (c) | Ravichandran Ashwin | Mitchell Starc | Stuart Broad | |
| 2024 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | Ben Duckett | Kane Williamson | Joe Root | Harry Brook | Kamindu Mendis | Jamie Smith (wk) | Ravindra Jadeja | Pat Cummins (c) | Matt Henry | Jasprit Bumrah | |

## Superlatives

Players marked bold are still active in Test matches and years marked bold indicate they won the ICC Test Player of the Year in that respective year:
| # | Player | Team | Appearances | First XI | 12th man | Years |
| 1 | Dale Steyn | South Africa | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 |
| 2 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 |
| 2 | Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024 |
| 3 | Jacques Kallis | South Africa | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 |
| 3 | Stuart Broad | England | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2023 |
| 3 | Joe Root | England | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024 |
| 3 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023 |
| 4 | Alastair Cook | England | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 |
| 4 | James Anderson | England | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022 |
| 4 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 |
| 5 | Ricky Ponting | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
| 5 | David Warner | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 |
| 5 | Hashim Amla | South Africa | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 |
| 5 | Ben Stokes | England | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 |
| 5 | Steve Smith | Australia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 |
| 5 | Mitchell Starc | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023 |
| 5 | Pat Cummins | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| 6 | Michael Clarke | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2009, 2012, 2013 |
| 6 | Marnus Labuschagne | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2019, 2021, 2022 |
| 6 | Matthew Hayden | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2004, 2006, 2007 |
| 6 | Michael Hussey | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2006, 2007, 2013 |
| 6 | Shane Warne | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2004, 2005, 2006 |
| 6 | Nathan Lyon | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2018, 2019, 2022 |
| 6 | Graeme Swann | England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2010, 2011, 2013 |
| 6 | MS Dhoni | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2009, 2010, 2013 |
| 6 | Virat Kohli | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2017, 2018, 2019 |
| 6 | Virender Sehwag | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2005, 2008, 2010 |
| 6 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| 6 | Kagiso Rabada | South Africa | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2017, 2018, 2022 |
| 6 | Muttiah Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2006, 2007, 2008 |
| 6 | Dimuth Karunaratne | Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2018, 2021, 2023 |
| 7 | Adam Gilchrist | Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2005 |
| 7 | Mitchell Johnson | Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2009, 2014 |
| 7 | Glenn McGrath | Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2005, 2006 |
| 7 | Andrew Flintoff | England | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2005, 2006 |
| 7 | Kevin Pietersen | England | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2007, 2008 |
| 7 | Jonny Bairstow | England | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2016, 2022 |
| 7 | Rahul Dravid | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2006 |
| 7 | Cheteshwar Pujara | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2013, 2017 |
| 7 | Rishabh Pant | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2021, 2022 |
| 7 | Tom Latham | New Zealand | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2018, 2019 |
| 7 | Mohammad Yousuf | Pakistan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2006, 2007 |
| 7 | Makhaya Ntini | South Africa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2006, 2007 |
| 7 | Vernon Philander | South Africa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2012, 2013 |
| 7 | Graeme Smith | South Africa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2005, 2008 |
| 7 | Rangana Herath | Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2014, 2016 |
| 7 | Chaminda Vaas | Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2005 |
| 7 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | West Indies | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2008, 2012 |
| 7 | Brian Lara | West Indies | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2005 |
| 7 | Usman Khawaja | Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2022, 2023 |
| 7 | Jasprit Bumrah | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2018, 2024 |
| 7 | Ravindra Jadeja | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2023, 2024 |
| 7 | Stuart Clark | Australia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2007, 2008 |
| 7 | Brett Lee | Australia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2006, 2008 |
| 7 | Zaheer Khan | India | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2007, 2011 |

### Appearances by nation

| Country | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Total |
| Australia | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 57 |
| England | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 44 |
| India | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | | 3 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 37 |
| South Africa | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 1 | | | 1 | | | 35 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 | | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| New Zealand | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | 2 | 1 | | 3 | 3 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| Pakistan | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | 1 | | 3 | 1 | | | 13 |
| West Indies | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | | | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | | | 6 |
| Bangladesh | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 |