Australia’s cricketing heroes have stepped out on the blue carpet to celebrate their night of nights at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium.
The star players and their partners dazzled ahead of the annual event where the Belinda Clark Award and Allan Border Medal will be awarded to the top female and male player for the year.
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It’s one of the most successful seasons of all time for the players who will be recognised at the 2024 Australian Cricket Awards.
Australian men’s captain Pat Cummins and his wife Becky looked stunning on the carpet, and so did power couple Mitchell Starc and women’s captain Alyssa Healy.
Ahead of the event, Cummins told 7NEWS it had been a “fantastic” 12 months for Australia.
World Cup hero Travis Head and Jessica Davies looked amazing. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Pat and Becky Cummins. Credit: Getty ImagesAshleigh Gardner and Monica Wright. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Women’s superstar Ellyse Perry on the blue carpet. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Aussie cricket royalty Mitch Starc and Alyssa Healy. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Annabel Sutherland. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Scott and Daphne Boland. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Aaron and Amy Finch arrive with their daughter Esther. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Spencer Johnson and Sarah Petherick. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Usman and Rachel Khawaja. Credit: Morgan Hancock/Getty ImagesAussie legend Allan Border and the medal named after him. Credit: Jonathan DiMaggio/Getty Images
“It’s not often you get all the different teams together out here under the one roof, so having everyone here, it’s going to be a good night,” Cummins said.
Cummins said the highlight of the past year for the men’s team was upsetting host nation India in the ODI World Cup.
“I think it’s hard to go past (the World Cup), I mean playing in front of 100,000 people over in India after an amazing campaign, that’s going to be a career highlight for a long time,” he said.
Cummins, 30, said he was unsure if he needed to drop a form of a game to prolong his career as he creeps into his twilight years.
“Maybe, I mean, you know, I’m loving it at the moment,” he said.
“(Coach) Andrew McDonald and our selectors look after us older guys a little bit better.”
Cummins said he was unsure who would win the Allan Border Medal and was reluctant to say if thought he was a chance.
“Honestly, uhhh, yeah, we’ll wait and see (but) maybe a chance, I suppose, I played a bit, but yeah, got no idea (who will win).”
While all the players wowed, the highlight of the blue carpet undoubtedly belonged to retiring cricket great Aaron Finch.
But it wasn’t Finch and his stunning wife Amy who stole the moment, that honour belonged to their beautiful young daughter, Esther.
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