Australian Cricket Awards 2024 RECAP: Annabel Sutherland claims Belinda Clark Medal days on from MCG feat; Humble Travis Head crowned Allan Border Medallist

Well, what a night!

It was fantastic to see two batters, in Travis Head and Annabel Sutherland, take home the Allan Border and Belinda Clark Medals!

What a special night for Australian cricket.

Thank you so much for joining me tonight as we went through all the award winners on Australian cricket's night of nights!

Annabel Sutherland has won the Belind Clark Medal just days after her maiden Test century on the MCG.

She became the first woman to make a ton on that ground.

"I love batting, my Test record shows that," Sutherland said.

"We were able to take a moment on Saturday night to take in what we achieved," she added of their efforts to whitewash the Women's Ashes series.

Annabel Sutherland has taken home the 2025 Belinda Clark Medal.

Australian coach Andrew McDonald broke the news to Travis in Sri Lanka!

He played nine Tests for 636 runs, five ODIS at a strike rate of 120 and 15 T20Is for 539 runs.

He gives a thumbs up and cheers from Sri Lanka.

"It's been nice to come close and not win it a few times, because this is not my forte," Head laughed from Sri Lanka.

But it hasn;t always been this easy for the batsman.

"I got left out of the team for a period of time in every format at some stage. Every goes through a stage where they don't get picked," he admitted.

And he declared the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was his biggest highlight.

"It's hard to go by the summer we've just had against India," he said.

Travis Head has been crowned the 2025 Allan Border Medal winner!

A very worthy winner!

Christina Matthews has reflected after being inducted into the Hall of Fame.

She is Australia's most capped female Test cricketer and also a proud World Cup winner.

"I could never imagine I could be standing up here with such and illustrious group of players," she said accepting her Hall of Fame induction.

The Victorian wicketkeeper later became the CEO at the WACA has worked on building team culture her entire career on and off field.

Michael Clarke, Michael Bevan and Christina Matthews have been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

Glenn Maxwell and Cooper Connolly have been crowned joint winners of the BBL player of the tournament!

Maxwell made 325 runs and buoyed his Melbourne Stars back into the finals for the first time in five years.

"It didn't start great, 0-5 looking down the barrell there," he said after winining the player of the tournament.

"We turned it around in great style and unfortunately fell short.

"In the second half," Maxwell said of the fun he had during the season.

Ellyse Perry and Jess Jonassen have been crowned joint winners of the WBBL players of the tournament!

Perry has opened up on her hip injury that kept her out of most of Australia's Ashes Test win over England, taking a 16-0 series whitewash.

"It was just one of those things, nothing too major," she said of her injury.

"It was an amazing spectacle. So nice to take all that in."

Beth Mooney has been crowned the Women's T20 International Player of the year!

It's been a big year for the veteran.

"A little bit of soul searching," Mooney admitted after not being able to reach the highest they would have liked at the T20 World Cup.

But she did admit that the Ashes Series whitewash made it all worth it!