Alyssa Healy cleans up at the Australian Cricket Awards

The wicketkeeper was voted as the Australia women's ODI and T20I Player of the Year, along with being given the Belinda Clark Award...

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Australia women's wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy was the big winner at the Australian Cricket awards as she took home three prizes.

She was voted as the Australia women's ODI and T20I Player of the Year, along with being given the Belinda Clark Award.

The 28-year-old won the final award by quite some margin, receiving 128 votes, which was 47 more than Megan Schutt in second.

She was instrumental in Australia's World T20 success in November 2018, winning the player of the tournament award after finishing as the leading run-scorer with 225 runs at 56.25.

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Alyssa Healy was a major part of the Australian side which won the most recent Women's World T20

Over the course of the voting period from January 9, 2018 to January 7, 2019, she scored 578 runs at 41.29 across both formats she featured in.

"This is something unreal," Healy said. "Honestly, winning that T20 World Cup was a pinnacle of the season, to do it with this new group was special. But to win an award with Belinda Clark's name on it is something every cricketer dreams of.

"We've got such a tremendous team at the moment, I think anyone in our group could have won this award which is pretty special. I finally turned a corner and believed I was good enough for international cricket. It's been an unbelievable 12 months, not sure I can cap it but I'll give it a crack."

The other female winners of awards were:

Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year: Georgia Wareham

Female Domestic Player of the Year: Heather Graham

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