ICC Test Team of the Year

The ICC 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 World Test XI

	Denotes players who are still active in Test matches
Player (in italic text)	Indicates players who were nominated to be the ICC Test Player of the Year for that year
Player (in bold text)	Indicates the player who was awarded ICC Test Player of the Year honours for that year
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been selected

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[1]	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[2]	Virender Sehwag	Graeme Smith	Ricky Ponting (c) (2)	Jacques Kallis (2)	Brian Lara (2)	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Andrew Flintoff	Adam Gilchrist (wk) (2)	Shane Warne (2)	Chaminda Vaas (2)	Glenn McGrath	Anil Kumble
2006[3]	Matthew Hayden (2)	Michael Hussey	Ricky Ponting (3)	Rahul Dravid (c) (2)	Mohammad Yousuf	Kumar Sangakkara (wk)	Andrew Flintoff (2)	Shane Warne (3)	Makhaya Ntini	Muttiah Muralitharan	Glenn McGrath (2)	Brett Lee
2007[4]	Matthew Hayden (3)	Michael Vaughan	Ricky Ponting (c) (4)	Mohammad Yousuf (2)	Kevin Pietersen	Michael Hussey (2)	Kumar Sangakkara (wk) (2)	Stuart Clark	Makhaya Ntini (2)	Mohammad Asif	Muttiah Muralitharan (2)	Zaheer Khan
2008[5]	Graeme Smith (c) (2)	Virender Sehwag (2)	Mahela Jayawardene	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Kevin Pietersen (2)	Jacques Kallis (3)	Kumar Sangakkara (wk) (3)	Brett Lee (2)	Ryan Sidebottom	Dale Steyn	Muttiah Muralitharan (3)	Stuart Clark (2)
2009[6]	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 (2)	Harbhajan Singh
2010[7][8]	Virender Sehwag (3)	Simon Katich	Sachin Tendulkar (2)	Hashim Amla	Kumar Sangakkara (4)	Jacques Kallis (4)	MS Dhoni (c/wk) (2)	Graeme Swann	James Anderson	Dale Steyn (3)	Doug Bollinger
2011[9]	Alastair Cook	Hashim Amla (2)	Jonathan Trott	Sachin Tendulkar (3)	Kumar Sangakkara (c/wk) (5)	AB de Villiers (2)	Jacques Kallis (5)	Stuart Broad (2)	Graeme Swann (2)	Dale Steyn (4)	James Anderson (2)	Zaheer Khan (2)
2012[10]	Alastair Cook (2)	Hashim Amla (3)	Kumar Sangakkara (6)	Jacques Kallis (6)	Michael Clarke (c) (2)	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2)	Matt Prior (wk)	Stuart Broad (3)	Saeed Ajmal	Vernon Philander	Dale Steyn (5)	AB de Villiers (3)
2013[11]	Alastair Cook (c) (3)	Cheteshwar Pujara	Hashim Amla (4)	Michael Clarke (3)	Michael Hussey (3)	AB de Villiers (4)	MS Dhoni (wk) (3)	Graeme Swann (3)	Dale Steyn (6)	James Anderson (3)	Vernon Philander (2)	Ravichandran Ashwin
2014[12][13]	David Warner	Kane Williamson	Kumar Sangakkara (7)	AB de Villiers (wk) (5)	Joe Root	Angelo Mathews (c)	Mitchell Johnson (2)	Stuart Broad (4)	Dale Steyn (7)	Rangana Herath	Tim Southee	Ross Taylor
2015[14]	David Warner (2)	Alastair Cook (c) (4)	Kane Williamson (2)	Younis Khan	Steve Smith	Joe Root (2)	Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)	Stuart Broad (5)	Trent Boult	Yasir Shah	Josh Hazlewood	Ravichandran Ashwin (2)
2016[15]	David Warner (3)	Alastair Cook (c) (5)	Kane Williamson (3)	Joe Root (3)	Adam Voges	Jonny Bairstow (wk)	Ben Stokes	Ravichandran Ashwin (3)	Rangana Herath (2)	Mitchell Starc	Dale Steyn (8)	Steve Smith (2)
2017[16]	Dean Elgar	David Warner (4)	Virat Kohli (c)	Steve Smith (3)	Cheteshwar Pujara (2)	Ben Stokes (2)	Quinton de Kock (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin (4)	Mitchell Starc (2)	Kagiso Rabada	James Anderson (4)
2018[17]	Tom Latham	Dimuth Karunaratne	Kane Williamson (4)	Virat Kohli (c) (2)	Henry Nicholls	Rishabh Pant (wk)	Jason Holder	Kagiso Rabada (2)	Nathan Lyon	Jasprit Bumrah	Mohammad Abbas
2019[18]	Mayank Agarwal	Tom Latham (2)	Marnus Labuschagne	Virat Kohli (c) (3)	Steve Smith (4)	Ben Stokes (3)	BJ Watling (wk)	Pat Cummins	Mitchell Starc (3)	Neil Wagner	Nathan Lyon (2)

Multiple selections

Player	Total	First XI	12th man
Dale Steyn	8	8	0
Kumar Sangakkara	7	7	0
Jacques Kallis	6	6	0
Stuart Broad	5	5	0
Alastair Cook	5	5	0
AB de Villiers	5	4	1
Ricky Ponting	4	4	0
David Warner	4	4	0
James Anderson	4	4	0
Kane Williamson	4	4	0
Hashim Amla	4	4	0
Steve Smith	4	3	1
Ravichandran Ashwin	4	2	2
Michael Clarke	3	3	0
Matthew Hayden	3	3	0
Michael Hussey	3	3	0
Mitchell Starc	3	3	0
Shane Warne	3	3	0
Joe Root	3	3	0
Ben Stokes	3	3	0
Graeme Swann	3	3	0
MS Dhoni	3	3	0
Virat Kohli	3	3	0
Virender Sehwag	3	3	0
Sachin Tendulkar	3	3	0
Muttiah Muralitharan	3	3	0
Adam Gilchrist	2	2	0
Mitchell Johnson	2	2	0
Nathan Lyon	2	2	0
Glenn McGrath	2	2	0
Andrew Flintoff	2	2	0
Kevin Pietersen	2	2	0
Rahul Dravid	2	2	0
Cheteshwar Pujara	2	2	0
Tom Latham	2	2	0
Mohammad Yousuf	2	2	0
Makhaya Ntini	2	2	0
Vernon Philander	2	2	0
Kagiso Rabada	2	2	0
Graeme Smith	2	2	0
Rangana Herath	2	2	0
Chaminda Vaas	2	2	0
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	2	2	0
Brian Lara	2	2	0
Stuart Clark	2	1	1
Brett Lee	2	1	1
Zaheer Khan	2	0	2

Selection distribution by nation

Country	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Australia	5	4	6	4	2	2	2		1	2	2	3	4	3	1	5	46
England	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	5	3	3	2	3	4	2		1	34
South Africa	2	2	1	1	3	2	3	4	5	4	2		1	3	1		34
India	1	2	1	1	1	4	3	2		3		1	1	3	3	2	28
Sri Lanka	1	1	2	2	3	1	1	1	1		3		1		1		18
New Zealand											3	2	1		3	3	12
Pakistan		1	1	2					1			3			1		9
West Indies	1	1			1				1						1		5
Bangladesh						1											1

See also

• ICC Awards
• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Cricketer of the Year)
• ICC Test Player of the Year
• ICC ODI Player of the Year
• ICC ODI Team of the Year
• David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
• ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year

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