Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015. He was named by "Wisden" as one of their Cricketers of the Year for 2015. In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young "Fab Four" of Test Cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli.