Wisden includes Moeen Ali and Gary Ballance in its cricketers of the year

• Meg Lanning wins first Leading Woman Cricketer in the World award

• Sangakkara and Lyth also honoured in 2015 Wisden Almanack

• Wisden 2014 pays tribute to fallen players of first world war

England’s Moeen Ali and Gary Ballance have been named among Wisden’s five cricketers of the year while Australia’s captain Meg Lanning has become the inaugural winner of its Leading Woman Cricketer in the World award.

Ballance’s county team-mate Adam Lyth, whose 1,489 runs helped Yorkshire win a first County Championship in 13 years, is also among the five along with the Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, whose side won four series against England in 2014, and Warwickshire’s New Zealand off-spinner Jeetan Patel, the leading wicket-taker in domestic cricket last summer.

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