Smith's outstanding year meant the Australian captain won his second Border Medal as well as a second Test player of the year award.

Perry also won the Belinda Clark Award for the second time as the top Australian women's player.

They were hot tips to take out the two major awards and the voting at Monday night's function in Melbourne reflected their domination.

Smith previously won the medal in 2015 and becomes the fifth player to win it more than once.

Smith polled 246 and his vice-captain David Warner, who had won the previous two Border Medals, was well behind on 162.

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon rounded out the top three on 156.

Smith captained Australia to the 4-0 Ashes series win this summer and also starred in last year's 2-1 Test series loss away to India.

He posted his highest Test score of 239 in the third Ashes Test.

Perry similarly crowned her stellar year with a double century.

Her 213no in November's Ashes Test is the third-highest women's Test score and an Australian record.

She polled 116 votes, comfortably clear of Beth Mooney's 78, while Megan Schutt was third on 65.

Perry previously won the Belinda Clark Award two years ago.

Smith amassed 1754 runs in 24 Tests and one-dayers at an average of 67.46 during the voting period, from January 8 last year to January 8 this year.

Lyon's 62 wickets - the most by any Test player in world cricket during the voting period - made him a chance for the Test player category.

But Smith beat Lyon 32 votes to 16, adding to his 2015 win in the category.

Smith scored a whopping 1305 runs in 11 Tests at an average of 81.56 with six centuries.

Warner was next on the Test runs aggregate - 420 runs behind him.

While Warner was no chance of becoming the first player to win three Border Medals in a row, he took out his second-straight international one-day player of the year award and Aaron Finch claimed the international T20 category.

The votes from the three formats were weighted for the Border Medal.

Each Test vote was worth six, compared to three for one-day and two for T20.

George Bailey and Mooney were named the top domestic players, while Jhye Richardson won the Bradman men's young player category and Georgia Redmayne took out the Betty Wilson young women's player honour.

Also on Monday night, Ricky Ponting, Karen Rolton and Norm O'Neill were inducted into the Australian cricket hall of fame.

Australian Associated Press