South Africa’s limited-overs captain and wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock has been named South Africa’s men’s cricketer of the year for the second time. The left-handed De Kock, was comfortably South Africa’s best batsman in an unsuccessful year which saw the Proteas win only one out of seven series across all formats.

27-year-old De Kock was South Africa’s leading run-scorer in five of the seven series and was also the team’s top scorer in nine out of 27 innings. However, De Kock said his highlight of the year for him was leading the one-day team to a 3-0 series win against Australia, the only series in which he did not play a prominent individual role.

De Kock was also named South Africa’s Test cricketer of the year as well as the players’ player of the year.

Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi was the one-day international and T20 international player of the year. De Kock had previously won the South Africa’s cricketer of the year award in 2017. 21-year-old

Laura Wolvaardt, was named South Africa’s women’s cricketer of the year. She was one of the team’s batting stars at the Women’s T20 World Cup which was held in Australia. This year’s awards ceremony was a virtual event which was live-streamed online in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.