The Best of r/cricket Awards 2024 - Winners Announcement

Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted in this year's awards. You can find the results below. Congratulations to the winners!

Contest mode will be turned off in the next few minutes on all the voting threads so you can go have a look at the scores now through the links in the voting post.

Also a quick note that this year, like last year, there were a couple of awards where the vote scores were so close it's pretty much a tie. Reddit fudges the exact score on comments by a couple points every time the page loads, to confuse bots or something. Where the scores were only a point apart I've called it a tie.

Best Post

  1. New Zealand have won the 3rd test and whitewashed India. After 24 years has a team whitewashed India at home by u/oklolzzzzs
  2. The D'Oliviera Affiar: Apartheid's effect on cricket in South Africa by u/MedicalJello2 and James Tito talking about his experiences being the roving reporter for the New Zealand/Australia tests by u/James_Tito_ tied.

Best Statistical Post

  1. Calculating the "real" average of best players in history by u/TheRealMarkChapman (RIP in peace)
  2. Travis Head in IPL 2024 (Blue Teams Vs Non Blue Teams) by u/Prof_XdR

Best Submitter

  1. u/RMTBolton - Almost makes New Zealand cricket more relevant than the NZC. Consistent, insightful and does all the NZ domestic threads.
  2. u/peterianchimes for their outstanding contributions in keeping the discussion around Indian domestic cricket alive on this subreddit. Also, those high-effort post-day threads with wagon wheels and all!

Best Comment

  1. RON's, Four of dem - u/VisRock
  2. u/fleetintelligence providing an analysis of Australian state cricket through the medium of chips

Best Commenter

  1. In loving memory of u/visrock a dedicated crisp cricket shitposter who was taken too soon by the S*rrey mafia.
  2. u/SirDoris

Funniest Post

  1. For the seventh time in this series, Virat Kohli has been caught behind the stumps - u/Noobmastter-3000
  2. New York Times posting cricket scores like Basketball - u/rmk_1808

Best Match

  1. Australia v West Indies, 2nd Test at the Gabba - Scorecard
  2. MCG Boxing Day Test Australia v India - Scorecard

Best Batting innings (one for each format)

  • Test: Ollie Pope: 196 (278) v India at Hyderabad. At one stage England were 162-5, trailing by 28 runs before he pretty much single-handedly stretched the lead to 230. - Scorecard - Day 3 Highlights - Day 4 Highlights
  • ODI: Chamari Athapaththu's 195* against SA - Scorecard - Highlights
  • T20I: Rohit Sharma 92(41) Against Australia - Scorecard - Highlights
  • Overall: Ollie Pope: 196 (278) v India at Hyderabad.

Best Bowling innings/match (one for each format)

  • Test: Shamar Joseph's 7/68 vs Australia at the Gabba, January 2024 - Scorecard - Day 4 Highlights
  • ODI: Jeffrey Vandersay's 6 for 33 against India. Basically ran through India's top and middle order while other bowlers looked clueless against them after coming back to the SL odi side after a long absence - Scorecard - Match Highlights
  • T20I: Lockie Ferguson's spell of 3 wickets for zero runs off 4 overs against Papua New Guinea in the T20 World Cup - Scorecard - Video of the spell
  • Overall: Shamar Joseph's 7/68 vs Australia at the Gabba

Best all-round match performance

  1. Pat Cummins: 49, 3/89, 41 & 3/28, Melbourne Test, BGT - Scorecard - Highlights
  2. Gus Atkinson 118, 2/40 and 5/62 vs Sri Lanka at Lord's - Scorecard - Ton Highlights

Best Fielding Moment

  1. James Bracey makes a one handed, gloveless catch on the last ball of a four-day county championship match. Ties the game, when Glamorgan needed 1 from 1 to make the highest successful run chase in four-day county cricket of 593 (9:37 into the video)
  2. Suryakumar's catch in T20 WC final (at about 8 minutes into this video)

Best Cricket Moment

  1. New Zealand first team to whitewash India at home - Last day of the series Highlights and Shamar Joseph's seven wicket haul and West Indies Win at the Gabba - Scorecard - Day 4 Highlights tied
  2. Suzie Bates and Sophie Devine finally lift a world cup - Highlights and Ireland getting their first ever test match victory Scorecard - Highlights tied

Funniest Cricket Moment

  1. Gulbadin Naib pretending to be injured to delay the match
  2. Elyse Perry getting the window as an award for hitting a 6 and breaking it