Unsurprisingly in a year where his performances stood head and shoulders above those of his team-mates, captain Daniel Vettori was the major recipient at the New Zealand Cricket awards in Auckland on Thursday night.
Vettori picked up the Winsor Cup for first-class bowling, the JR Reid Best All-Rounder Trophy and was a no-brainer for the 2009 Player of the Year.
During the year, he joined an elite club of eight Test players who have scored 3000 runs and taken 300 wickets – the second New Zealander behind Sir Richard Hadlee to do so.
The 30-year-old has taken 17 Test wickets in 2009 so far at 40.64 and has shone with the bat in scoring 492 runs at 61.50, including two centuries.
He has also taken 19 ODI scalps at 30.26 and confirmed himself as perhaps the world's pre-eminent limited-overs bowler with nine Twenty20 wickets at 16.88 and an outstanding economy rate of 5.62.
"Daniel has been an inspiration to his team and to New Zealand cricket fans," said New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan.
"This year he has also cemented his reputation as one of the most accomplished captains in world cricket currently.
"Daniel has led his side from the front this season. A six-wicket haul against the West Indies, a century against India – then going on later in the year to join the elite club of 300 wickets and 3000 runs – this really has been Daniel's year."
The new face of New Zealand cricket was represented as Jesse Ryder and Martin Guptill scooped two major batting awards.
Ryder received the Redpath Cup for first-class batsmen, in a year where he scored 454 Test runs including a double century against India, while Guptill burst onto the international scene to grab the Walter Hadlee Trophy for most meritorious ODI batting.
Kyle Mills, now the world's No.1 ODI bowler, claimed the Walter Hadlee Trophy for one-day bowling and Mathew Sinclair was named the Domestic Player of the Year.
In women's cricket, Haidee Tiffen took out the top batting prize, the Ruth Martin Cup, Kate Pulford received the Phyl Blackler Cup for bowling and Sophie Devine was the Domestic Player of the Year.
Young Cricketer of the Year went to rising Palmerston North star Adam Milne, a pace bowler who set the 2008 Gillette Cup secondary schools tournament alight with 13 wickets at 8.15.