Marnus Labuschagne crowned One-Day Cup Player of the Year

Marnus Labuschagne has been named the One Day Cup domestic Player of the Year, following an impressively dominant season for Queensland.

He finished the 2025-26 season with 468 runs in six innings at an impressive average of 78 and strike rate of 96.49, including four centuries, with two coming against eventual finalists, Tasmania and New South Wales. This is now his best season in the competition, ahead of his 364 runs at 61 in 2019-20.

The 31-year-old became the fourth player to record four centuries in the One Day Cup, joining Phil Jaques, Brad Hodge and Daniel Hughes. He also became the first player to win the Player of the Year award three times, eclipsing Matthew Hayden, Darren Lehmann, Brad Hodge and Cameron White (who have won it twice respectively)

Following the axe from the Test team for Australia’s series against West Indies in July 2025, Labuschagne was also dropped from the ODI side for the series against India in October, putting his future with the national team in question. The Queensland batter made his return to the Australian domestic circuit with two hundreds in the Sheffield Shield before adding two more in the One Day Cup, to earn an eventual recall to the Test side for the 2025-26 Ashes.

"Once I get the rhythm and feeling of one-day cricket, I feel like I can compile pretty consistent performances," Labuschagne said following his third 50-over century of the season, 101 against NSW in November.

"When you don't play one-day cricket for a while … you might be 30 off 50 (balls) … and you start panicking. That's how I sort of felt at the start of pre-season. We played pre-season games and that's exactly how I felt; I felt like I had to go. I got a few starts and that just got that process rolling and that rhythm and feeling (heading into the season)", he added

Labuschagne beat New South Wales’ Kurtis Patterson to bag the award, with 20 votes to Patterson’s 19. The latter was also the highest run scorer for the season, with 513 runs in seven innings at 102.60, including three centuries and two half-centuries as well. Tasmania’s Beau Webster finished in third place with 12 votes, well behind the dominant pair.

Voting was determined by the two on-field umpires, who vote individually in a 3-2-1 format for each game.