Annabel Sutherland has become the fifth woman to win consecutive Belinda Clark Awards, after a year in which the all-round star continued to dominate the green and gold.
Sutherland was crowned Australia’s best cricketer of last year at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, collecting 77 votes to win by three ahead of two-time winner Beth Mooney.
Scheduling conflicts between the men’s and women’s teams have prevented the Australian Cricket Awards from taking place in their traditional format this season, and Sutherland accepted his award from Clark in somewhat unusual circumstances, with a presentation held at the SCG members’ Long Bar before Australia’s training session on Saturday night.
Sutherland also claimed the ODI Player of the Year award, while Beth Mooney took the T20I Player of the Year award on a countdown after having tied with opening partner Georgia Voll.
Voting for the 2026 Belinda Clark Award
Winner: Annabel Sutherland – 77 votes
2nd: Beth Mooney – 74 votes
3rd: Alana King – 55 votes
4th: Ashleigh Gardner – 54 votes
5th: Phoebe Litchfield – 42 votes
Australia played just three T20Is in the voting period, and Mooney was named player of that series in New Zealand after scoring 166 runs at an average of 83 and a strike rate of 167.
It is the fourth time Mooney has won the T20I award since its inception in 2019, in a testament to his remarkable consistency with the bat in the shortest format.
The Australians played 13 white-ball matches during the voting period, all away from home, and those three T20Is were followed by 10 one-day matches in September and October spanning the bilateral series in India and the ODI World Cup.
One of Australia’s most reliable players during the World Cup, Sutherland was Australia’s leading wicket-taker in the 50-over format, finishing as the tournament’s second-highest wicket-taker with 17 at 15.82 and contributing a high score of 98no against England.
Across all formats, Sutherland took 27 wickets at an average of 15.63 along with 250 runs at an average of 41.66.
The Victorian is the fifth woman to win consecutive Belinda Clark Awards, following Karen Rolton (2002-03, 2005-06), Lisa Sthalekar (2007-08), Shelley Nitschke (2009-12) and Meg Lanning (2014-15).
“It’s pretty special to be around some of those names… it’s pretty cool and very surreal right now,” Sutherland said.
“I am very grateful to receive the award from ‘BC’ (Clark), and just grateful and pleased to know that I have contributed to the team’s success over the last 12 months.”
All the winners of the 2026 women’s awards
Belinda Clark Award: Annabel Sutherland
ODI Player of the Year: Annabel Sutherland
T20I Player of the Year: Beth Mooney
National Player of the Year: Nicola Carey
Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year: Caoimhe Bray
Community Impact Award: Josie Dooley
The 24-year-old also admitted she had some mixed feelings about the individual honour, given the lingering disappointment over Australia’s defeat in the World Cup semi-finals.
“It’s hard to beat the way the World Cup ended, in terms of where the team was in the result we got there,” he added. “I put a lot of emphasis on that World Cup… and in recent years that was the focus of my preparation, on how I was going to contribute to Australia’s victories.
“I felt like I could do that with the ball throughout the tournament, and with the bat as well.
“But it’s hard to reflect on it given the way the World Cup ended.”
Mooney also shone in the ODI World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, bailing Australia out of deep trouble with a century against Pakistan and finishing the tournament as her team’s leading run-scorer.
Alana King, who posted an Australian record of 7-18 against South Africa, also enjoyed a stellar World Cup campaign by finishing third in voting for the Belinda Clark Award.
International cricket awards are based on votes from players, umpires and media on a 3-2-1 basis in each match.
Votes are weighted to decide the winner of the Belinda Clark Award, with votes polled in Test matches being worth twice as much as those in ODI matches and three times more than T20I votes.
If the players are tied for first place, a countdown occurs and the player who received the most “three votes” gets the nod.
Australia did not play a Test in the 2026 voting period.
NRMA Insurance Australia v India Multi-Format Series
Australia T20I Team: Sophie Molineux (c), Ashleigh Gardner (vc), Tahlia McGrath (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham
India T20I Team: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Renuka Thakur, Sree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma, Kranti Gaud, Sneh Rana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Uma Chetry, Arundhati Reddy, Amanjot Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Bharti Fulmali, Shreyanka Patil
February 15: First T20, SCG, 7:15pm AEDT
February 19: Second T20, Manuka Oval, Canberra, 7:15pm AEDT
February 21: Third T20, Adelaide Oval, 7:15pm AEDT
Australia ODI Team: Alyssa Healy (c), Sophie Molineux (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham
India ODI Team: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Renuka Thakur, Sree Charani, Vaishnavi Sharma, Kranti Gaud, Sneh Rana, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Kashvee Gautam, Amanjot Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Uma Chetry, Harleen Deol
February 24: First ODI, Allan Border Field, Brisbane, 2:50 pm AEDT
February 27: Second ODI, Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 2:50 pm AEDT
March 1: Third ODI, Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 2:50 pm AEDT
Australia Test Team: Alyssa Healy (c), Sophie Molineux (vc), Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Lucy Hamilton, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham
India Test Team: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma, Renuka Singh, Sneh Rana, Amanjot Kaur, Uma Chetry, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Kranti Gaud, Vaishnavi Sharma, Sayali Satghare
March 6-9: Test match, WACA Ground, 4:20 pm AEDT (D/N)