Overview
- Wisden's 2026 awards, announced Monday, gave seven of the nine major prizes to India in the sport's annual record.
- Shubman Gill took the Wisden Trophy for his 269 and 161 at Edgbaston, a 430-run match that set up India's first win there and their biggest away victory by runs.
- Four Indians—Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant and Mohammed Siraj—were joined by Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed as the Five Cricketers of the Year, an honour earned once in a career for the English season.
- Deepti Sharma was named Leading Women's Cricketer for driving India's one-day World Cup win, Mitchell Starc took the men's prize, and Abhishek Sharma was the Leading T20 player.
- Editor Lawrence Booth called England's 4-1 Ashes loss 'feckless, reckless and legless' and warned that new Hundred team owners tied to IPL investors could turn the 100-ball competition into a proxy league.