5 undeserving recipients of 2016 ICC awards

#4 Adam Voges

Australian skipper Steve Smith is one of the most improved cricketers in the last three years and was given the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year award last year. He was also named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year in 2015 and one year down the line, he does not even feature in the ICC Test Team of the Year.

Smith was named as the 12^th man for the ICC Test Team of the Year while his teammate Adam Voges was named in the XI. One cannot deny that Voges had a remarkable time in Test cricket, but at the same time, Smith was even more consistent than Voges.

Voges amassed 1087 runs in 11 matches at an average of over 90 while Smith averages 67 with 1004 runs in the same number of matches.

Out of the 1087 runs, Voges scored 375 runs without getting dismissed in the three-match Test series against West Indies earlier this year. This puts him better than Smith as far as the numbers are concerned, but the Australian skipper had more impact than the Western Australia batsman and deserved a place in the ICC Test Team of the Year more than his compatriot.