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JOHANNESBURG. — Kagiso Rabada hit the record books for a six when he was named South African Cricketer of the Year and in all received a total of six awards at a glittering Cricket South Africa (CSA) awards banquet in Sandton on Tuesday night. He is the first player to win six individual awards — both AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla had previously won five — and at the age of 21 years 62 days is by far the youngest to have won South African cricket’s premier accolade. The other eight players to have received CSA’s most prestigious award are Jacques Kallis (2004 and 2011), Makhaya Ntini (2005 and 2006), Hashim Amla (2010 and 2013) and AB de Villiers (2014 and 2015) who have all won the award twice with the other previous winners being Shaun Pollock (2007), Dale Steyn (2008), Graeme Smith (2009), and Vernon Philander (2012). — AFP.