Batting Category:
Best Batsman -Virat Kohli. This one needs no description.
Best Youngster - Quinton de Kock. He's still young despite how mature his career stats look. Many have claimed Babar Azam, but I'll stick to de Kock.
Most Improved Batsman - Jonny Bairstow. Yup.
Best Innings -
Virat Kohli's 82* against Australia (T20 WC), and
Ben Stoke's 258 against South Africa earlier this year(who's gonna forget that one?).
Failure of the year - Shikhar Dhawan. I wish this should have been 'Pathetic player of the year'. How many chances you actually need to prove your worth, huh?
Bowling Category:
Best Bowler - Mitchell Starc. Dominant. In all forms.
Best Youngster - Kagiso Rabada. This guys has a promising future.
Most Improved Bowler - Ravichandran Ashwin. He sure had a great year.
Best Innings - From what I remember as the highlight of 2016's bowling performances, Stuart Broad's 6/17 against South Africa was absolutely phenomenal. By the stats, Luke Jongwe's
these figures also sound amazing.
Failure of the year - I'd say Morne Morkel.
Team Category:
Best Team - Pakistan. They had too good time this year for their own standards.
Most Improved Team - Pakistan.
Decline of the year - Aussies.
Misc:
Best Tournament/Series - T20 World Cup. It has been some event full of extra ordinary thrillers.
Best match - Last two test matches of 2016.
Most surprising/shocking incident - Ben Stokes bowled same kinda delivery four consecutive times to a Caribbean guy in the final over of T20 world cup. Dunno what was he thinking in front of 70k people.
