The England goalkeeper Mary Earps is the overwhelming favourite to succeed her teammate Beth Mead as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year after the announcement by the corporation of the six nominees on Tuesday. The 30-year-old is being offered at the prohibitive odds of 1-7 by bookmakers after her pivotal performances in helping England reach the Women’s World Cup final in August before eventually losing 1-0 to Spain. Earps was awarded the Golden Glove after keeping three clean sheets throughout the tournament. The Manchester United keeper, who kept a Super League record 14 clean sheets for her club last season, was England Women player of the year, and was fifth in the voting for the 2023 Ballon d’Or Feminin award, the highest-ever ranking for a goalkeeper. Her popularity is such that the latest batch of replica Earps England goalkeeper shirts sold out within five minutes in the online store on Monday. Nike had reported a similarly swift sell-out after kits bearing her name had gone on sale in October. Earps is joined on the shortlist by the retired cricketer Stuart Broad, second favourite at around 8-1, the jockey Frankie Dettori, the athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett and the golfer Rory McIlroy. Broad will hope to become the first cricketer to claim the BBC gong since Ben Stokes in 2019. He became England’s second leading Test wicket-taker with 604 before announcing his retirement on the penultimate day of the fifth and final Ashes Test and helping them draw the series against Australia at the Oval by taking a wicket with his final ball bowled and a six with his last with the bat. The Liverpool-born heptathlete Johnson-Thompson came back from injury to win her second world title in Budapest this year. Her buildup to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was undermined by an achilles injury that forced her to pull out but the 30-year-old bounced back with a Commonwealth Games title in Birmingham last year and then conquered the world again in Budapest. The three-time British Flat racing champion jockey Dettori triumphed in two British classics this year, winning the 2,000 Guineas on Chaldean and the Oaks on Soul Sister, before leaving these shores to ply his trade in the US and is joined on the list by the wheelchair tennis player Hewett and the world No 2 in golf, McIlroy. The winner of the public vote will be announced on the night of the live show on Tuesday, 19 December.