Australia's dominance of world cricket since the Ashes series loss has been reflected with five players among 13 vying for the ICC Cricketer of the Year award.
Skipper Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Adam Gilchrist all feature on the list of nominees for the honour to be announced at the ICC Awards in Mumbai on October 23.
They were chosen by a group of five selectors led by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, with the time frame running from August 1, last year, to August 8, this year a period when Australia dominated all challengers, including home and away Test series wins over South Africa.
They're joined on the list by Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Mohammed Yousuf (Pak), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Younis Khan (Pak), Monty Panesar (Eng), and Makhaya Ntini (SA).
Their number will be trimmed to a shortlist on October 14 by members of the ICC voting academy comprising captains, match referees and umpires, legends of the game and media.
Australia also dominates the Test Player of the Year category with Hussey, Ponting, Warne and Matthew Hayden among the 13 listed.
And it also has most candidates for the ODI Player of the Year where Hussey, Ponting, Lee and Gilchrist are among 17 nominated.
Australia also does well in the new categories of Captain of the Year where Ponting joins Michael Vaughan (Eng), Rahul Dravid (Ind) and Mahela Jayawardene (SL) and Women's Cricketer of the Year, where Karen Rolton and Cathryn Fitzpatrick are among seven nominees.
ICC chief Malcolm Speed made a point of noting that the captaincy category would recognise not only successful leadership and tactical awareness but adherence to the "spirit of cricket".
Australia's Simon Taufel was one of three nominees for Umpire of the Year with Pakistan's Aleem Dar and South Africa's Rudi Koertzen.
However, there is one category where the ageing Australian team does not feature at all – the Emerging Player of the Year.
England has three of those eight nominees with Monty Panesar, Alastair Cook and Ian Bell joining Denesh Ramdin (WI), Malinga Bandara (SL), Mohammed Asif (Pak), Upul Tharanga (SL), Ian Bell (Eng), Shahriar Nafees (BD).