Pakistan, Feb. 4 -- Travis Head has won the 2025 Allan Border Medal as Australia's top male cricketer of the past 12 months. Currently on the Test tour of Sri Lanka, Head accepted the prestigious award at the Australian team's beachside hotel in Galle - some 8,000km away from the Australian Cricket Awards ceremony at Melbourne's Crown Casino.

The 31-year-old had been the favourite to claim a first Allan Border Medal.

Test and One Day International captain Pat Cummins appeared his closest competition, having been named skipper of the ICC's Test team of the year for 2024.

But Head was clearly Australia's form batter of the past 12 months with 1427 runs across the three formats.

Head also took out the one-day international category, agai...