Trott named player of the year, Cook gets test player

by Guest Mon 12 Sep 2011, 21:59

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/14887238.stm

by Brass Monkey Mon 12 Sep 2011, 22:03

Well, no real surprise. Nice tits BTW.

by Guest Mon 12 Sep 2011, 22:08

The f**k? There isn't another thread, asswipe.

by PeterCS Mon 12 Sep 2011, 22:30

Gentlemen, this is SO unseemly. I am going to have to ask you to leave, thank you.

Good to see Sanga honoured too.

What an amateurish-looking/-feeling, navigation-unfriendly website the ICC has. Why am I not entirely surprised by that either?

by Growler Mon 12 Sep 2011, 23:40

vilkrang wrote:The f**k? There isn't another thread, asswipe.

In my self-appointed role as forum tedious pedantic pedant, I deel duty bound to inform you that there is a thread ...... here.

However to be fair, it is on page three, and I don't think you were about for the couple of days it was active late last month Very Happy

by Gary 111 Mon 12 Sep 2011, 23:54

Most uninspiring player of the year ever?

Although I checked the list of past winners and he has competition in blandness from Dravid (2004), Kallis (2005) and Chanderpaul (2008)

by Guest Mon 12 Sep 2011, 23:55

Growler wrote:
vilkrang wrote:The f**k? There isn't another thread, asswipe.

In my self-appointed role as forum tedious pedantic pedant, I deel duty bound to inform you that there is a thread ...... here.

However to be fair, it is on page three, and I don't think you were about for the couple of days it was active late last month

I saw that one. That was about the shortlist. This is about the winners.

by Growler Tue 13 Sep 2011, 00:16

In which case I'll hand you the crown of forum tedious pedantic pedant Wink

by Guest Tue 13 Sep 2011, 00:20

Duly accepted aye-aye

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by Guest Tue 13 Sep 2011, 00:49

Gary 111 wrote:Most uninspiring player of the year ever?

Although I checked the list of past winners and he has competition in blandness from Dravid (2004), Kallis (2005) and Chanderpaul (2008)

Uninspiring yes, but easily deserved.

by Allan D Tue 13 Sep 2011, 01:14

Sanga is ODI player of the year. Also deserves a special award for his Colin Cowdrey lecture. Probably the most articulate and thoughtful cricketer since Pelham Warner.

by horace Tue 13 Sep 2011, 01:33

Gary 111 wrote:Most uninspiring player of the year ever?

Although I checked the list of past winners and he has competition in blandness from Dravid (2004), Kallis (2005) and Chanderpaul (2008)

fair points Gaz...but has world cricket reached a new low?

by PeterCS Tue 13 Sep 2011, 01:39

Brearley wasn't bad.

(Except when batting, in those rabbit's ears ... like a rabbit.)

by embee Tue 13 Sep 2011, 16:45

garq me

Emma gets the Spirit of Cricket award ...the ICC has NFI

by Brass Monkey Tue 13 Sep 2011, 16:54

embee wrote:garq me

Emma gets the Spirit of Cricket award ...the ICC has NFI

Aye! Especially after trying to bully umpires all year round.

by Guest Tue 13 Sep 2011, 17:31

Sounds like it was Dravid and SRT's idea anyway. Ridiculous recipient.

by WIFAN Tue 13 Sep 2011, 19:25

Well done Bishoo for getting the emerging player award. Pretty easy decision that I would have thought, he's been awesome.

by Brass Monkey Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:06

The Indian team's non-appearance at the ICC Awards ceremony in London on Monday night has sparked off a controversy of sorts with the ICC expressing its "disappointment" and the team management saying it was informed too late to change existing plans.

Not a single Indian player or official attended the event and there was no one to collect the Spirit of Cricket Award, which MS Dhoni won for his decision to send back Ian Bell during the second Test of the summer at Trent Bridge.

"We are disappointed," Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, told ESPNcricinfo. "They have had a great year [before the England series] and it was an occasion to celebrate. It was a missed opportunity."

According to Lorgat, India also missed out on attracting more sympathisers after a disastrous England tour where they have lost both the Test and ODI series. "It was a good opportunity to show their sporting character despite them losing on this tour."

Indian team manager Shivlal Yadav explained that he received a call from the ICC on Monday afternoon. "I had already told the boys that it was an off day. So now how could I have asked them to suddenly change their plans? Hence I told them (ICC) that they should not keep the table free for us," Yadav said.

Interestingly, in 2009 Dhoni failed to collect his ODI Cricketer of the Year Award even though he was in Johannesburg, the venue of the ceremony. Last year's event was in Bangalore, with the Indian team in attendance albeit in denims and T-shirts. Raising more eyebrows, though, was the absence of the BCCI's top brass, including N Srinivasan, then its secretary and currently its president-elect.

The decision to hold this year's awards in London was taken the ICC's executive board on February 16; it is understood that the ICC then sent an email to the BCCI outlining the various details of the awards ceremony, to be held on September 12. On August 24, two days before the nominees' list was formally made public in Canterbury by Clive Lloyd, head of the selection panel for the awards, the ICC sent another e-mail to the Indian board informing that three Indians - MS Dhoni (Spirit of Cricket), Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer of the Year) and Gautam Gambhir (ODI Cricketer of the Year) - had been nominated in three different categories.

On September 7, the ICC sent a fresh e-mail to Srinivasan's office reminding him about the awards and thereby extending another invitation for the Indians to attend them. It is believed that the Indian team, which was originally scheduled to leave for Cardiff, where it plays its final one-day match on September 16, had in fact postponed its trip by a day, leading to speculation that the players would attend the ceremony.

"We hold the awards' night at a time convenient for the cricketers," Lorgat said. "When we sat earlier in the year to decide on the dates for this year's awards, the choice was between London and Colombo. But we felt that England-India would be a marquee series and therefore [it would be] apt to host it in London."

Unofficial estimates put the ICC's expenditure on the ceremony at close to US$ 1 million.

Qunts? Yeah, qunts.

by spangler Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:11

It's only because their wives are too ugly for them to attend.

by Guest Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:13

Makes a mockery of Dhoni getting the spirit of cricket award.

by Brass Monkey Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:14

spangler wrote:It's only because their wives are too ugly for them to attend.

They could've flown Zaheer and Ishant over, along with Sreesanth and RP... I'm sure they'd scrub up nicely in Christian Dior's latest numbers.

by spangler Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:17

Brass Monkey wrote:
spangler wrote:It's only because their wives are too ugly for them to attend.

They could've flown Zaheer and Ishant over, along with Sreesanth and RP... I'm sure they'd scrub up nicely in Christian Dior's latest numbers.

Mishra's got the tits to do justice to a good Versace number.

Not enough ~~non South African~~ cricketers with tits in my book.

by Brass Monkey Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:29

Hmmm, recent breasted cricketers.... there aren't many, you're right. Damned fitness training. Gone are the days I used to get a semi-lob from watching Tim Munton running in to bowl.

by Henry Wed 14 Sep 2011, 02:26

India? Yep. Qunts.I'm so glad we're thrashing the sh*t out of them at the moment.

by embee Wed 14 Sep 2011, 02:27

They should appoint Craig Thomson to the BCCI

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