27th Juy (CRICKETNMORE) - South Africa young fast bowler Kagiso Rabada hit the record books when he was named South African Cricketer of the Year. In total, Rabada received a total of six awards at a glittering Cricket South Africa (CSA) awards banquet in Sandton on Tuesday evening.
He is the first player to win six individual awards breaking the earlier record mutually held by AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla who had previously won five. He is also the youngest cricketer to have won South African cricket’s premier accolade at the age of 21 years 62 days. Also Read Special Gift to Kohli by Jr. Richards
The other eight players to have received CSA’s most prestigious award are Jacques Kallis (2004 and 2011), Makhaya Ntini (2005 and 2006), Hashim Amla (2010 and 2013) and AB de Villiers (2014 and 2015) who have all won the award twice with the other previous winners being Shaun Pollock (2007), Dale Steyn (2008), Graeme Smith (2009), and Vernon Philander (2012).
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