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South Africa Test skipper Quinton de Kock has been named the South Africa cricketer of the year for the second time in his illustrious international cricket career.

The wicketkeeper-batsman has also bagged the Test cricketer of the year award. The white-ball skipper previously had this prestigious award back in 2017 and named himself in the elite club of players who have won this award which was introduced in 2004 for multiple times.

“Quinny is the leading wicketkeeper-batsman in Test cricket and is, in fact, one of the leading batsmen in both red-ball and white-ball cricket. He is also starting to emerge as an outstanding leader,” Cricket South Africa (CSA) Acting CEO, Jacques Faul was quoted as saying in a leading English portal.

Jacques Kallis (2004 and 2011), Makhaya Ntini (2005 and 2006), Hashim Amla (2010 and 2013), AB de Villiers (2014 and 2015) and Kagiso Rabada (2016 and 2018). The other previous winners since the awards were instituted in 2004 are Shaun Pollock (2007), Dale Steyn (2008), Graeme Smith (2009), Vernon Philander (2012) and Faf du Plessis (2019) were awarded after being introduced the annually-awarding programme by the CSA.

Apart from De Kock, the young opener Laura Wolvaardt received the women’s cricketer of the year and ODI cricketer of the year award.

Pace bowler Lungi Ngidi has also been named ODI and Twenty20 player of the year while David Miller was voted the fans’ favourite player. Anrich Nortje, who made his Test debut in India and took a five-for in the Test series against England, was adjudged the International men’s ‘newcomer’ player of the year.

Shabnim Ismail took home the women’s Twenty20 player of the year with left-arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba has been recognized as the women’s ‘newcomer’ player of the Year.