Adam Zampa has failed to poll in the top three for Cricket Australia's men's ODI player of the year award despite being nominated for the International Cricket Council's version of the accolade.

Instead, batter David Warner earned the prize at the CA Awards in Sydney on Monday night.

Last year, no man playing for a full-member nation of the ICC took more ODI wickets than Zampa, who is Australia's first-choice spinner in white-ball fixtures and managed 30 scalps at 17.53 from 12 matches.

Against New Zealand in September, Zampa took 5-35 - his best performance from 76 ODIs - and has never before taken more than 30 wickets in a calendar year at ODI level.

The 30-year-old legspinner was named in the ICC's 2022 ODI team of the year and was one of four players shortlisted for the ICC's male ODI player of the year. He ultimately lost out to Pakistan's Babar Azam.

Zampa's effort was all the more impressive given he travelled to the spin-friendly subcontinent only once last year.

Zampa is currently playing for the Dubai Capitals in the UAE T20 League so missed the awards ceremony at Royal Randwick Racecourse.

Warner scored more runs than any Australian batter (552) in ODIs last year but admitted he was surprised to have won the award.

Warner averaged 42.46 runs across his 13 ODI innings, with a high score of 106 in his most recent match against England in November.

Like the other international awards presented by Cricket Australia, the men's ODI award is determined by tallying 3-2-1 votes from players, umpires and media.

Warner and Steve Smith both finished atop the polls with 25 votes each but because Warner finished with more allocations of three votes, he received the award.

Batter Travis Head finished third on 24 votes after returning to the ODI side from a three-and-a-half year absence.