- CARLTON AFL captain Patrick Cripps has won the 2022 Brownlow Medal, with the brilliant midfielder winning the game's highest individual honour in Australian Football in a thrilling count on Sunday night.
Cripps polled 29 votes to win from 2020 medallist Lachie Neale (28), Gold Coast star Touk Miller (27) and Fremantle midfielder Andrew Brayshaw (25) who were all Favourits heading into in the final round.
He is the first Blue to win the Brownlow since former skipper Chris Judd in 2010.
Cripps, who finished third in the 2019 Brownlow Medal won by Nat Fyfe, becomes Carlton's first winner since Chris Judd in 2010 and the sixth in the club's history.
2022 Brownlow Medal Leaderboard.
- Patrick Cripps - 29
- Lachie Neale - 28
- Touk Miller - 27
- Andrew Brayshaw - 25
- Clayton Oliver - 25
- Christian Petracca - 24
In the Blues' round 23 victory over Collingwood, Cripps, a 27-year-old from Northampton in Western Australia, received the maximum three votes, earning him the medal.
After serving a two-match suspension for a high bump on Brisbane's Callum Ah Chee in round 21, he almost didn't qualify for the medal but won his appeal in a drawn-out Tribunal session.
- In the first half of the season, Cripps—who was selected with the 13th overall choice in the 2013 NAB AFL Draft—played some of the greatest games of his career, garnering the maximum three votes five times in the first eight rounds.
After averaging 28.1 disposals, he was awarded his third All-Australian blazer. This season, he ranked third in the AFL for both clearances (7.7) and contested possessions (15.3).
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