Aaron Finch’s record-breaking innings at the Ageas Bowl has been named as the ICC Twenty20 international performance of the year.

The Australian lit up the Ageas Bowl with 11 fours and 14 sixes in his 63-ball 156 against England in August 2013.

It ensured a 39-run run for Australia and remains the highest individual score in T20 international history.

Two performances at the World T20 in Bangladesh in March were also recognised (the awards were judged on performances between August 26, 2013 and September 17, 2014).

Alex Hales was nominated for his unbeaten 116 (64 balls, 11 fours and six sixes) against Sri Lanka, whose former Hampshire spinner Rangana Herath was nominated for taking five wickets for just three runs against New Zealand.

Herath joined Stuart Broad and Joe Root in the Test Team of the Year, while former Hampshire batsman George Bailey made the ODI Team of the Year.

Meanwhile, Bailey and Glenn Maxwell were both in the runs as Australia beat South Africa in Perth.

Bailey hit a 75-ball 70 and Maxwell a 19-ball 29 as Australia made 300-8 in the first one-day international of the series.

Maxwell completed the 32-run win by dismissing fellow former Hampshire player Imran Tahir for a run-a-ball 22.

  • Alastair Cook insists Kevin Pietersen is no longer a topic of conversation in the England dressing room and claims the players are eager to move on ahead of their one-day international series in Sri Lanka.

England fly out on Sunday for seven matches on the sub-continent as they begin a winter’s preparation for February’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Former Hampshire batsman Pietersen will not be on the plane, however, after he was axed from the international set-up earlier this year and launched a scathing attack on the England dressing room in an autobiography released in October.

“We’ve had a couple of weeks together and we haven’t felt the need to talk about it at all,” Cook said.

“It’s been a really good place to be around in the last couple of weeks. I think we have moved on - all the fall out from it has happened.

“In the summer I felt we were moving on as a side and then we had the release date – so everyone was talking about it.

“It’s all happened now, it’s all out now from his side and as players we’ve left it, there’s nothing more that can really come out.

“We just want to build and move forward as a side and as a captain, that’s a good place to be.