ICC Cricketer of the Year awards

Watson up for ICC gong


Shane Watson and Doug Bollinger headline a strong contingent of Australians that have been nominated for LG ICC Awards.

Watson has been nominated in four categories and Bollinger is among seven players, including Indian duo Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, South African Jacques Kallis and Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardena, that have been nominated in three different categories - cricketer of the year, Test player of the year and ODI player of the year.

Joining the star Aussies in the nominations for the cricketer of the year are captain Ricky Ponting, vice-captain Michael Clarke, fast bowlers Ryan Harris and Mitchell Johnson, who won the award last year.

Simon Katich is the only other Australian up for Test player of the year, while Harris, Ponting, Michael Hussey and Cameron White are all up for the ODI award.

Exciting trio David Warner, Steven Smith and Tim Paine are all in line for the emerging player of the year, which fast bowler Peter Siddle won last year.

The long-lists of nominations were made by a five-man ICC selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd. The panel also includes former international players Angus Fraser of England, Matthew Hayden of Australia, Ravi Shastri of India and Zimbabwe's Duncan Fletcher.

Cricketer of the Year
Hashim Amla (SA), Doug Bollinger (Aus), Michael Clarke (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Ryan Harris (Aus), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Jacques Kallis (SA), Morne Morkel (SA), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Dale Steyn (SA), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Daniel Vettori (NZ), AB de Villiers (SA), Shane Watson (Aus)

Test Player of the Year
Hashim Amla (SA), James Anderson (Eng), Mohammad Asif (Pak), Doug Bollinger (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Tamim Iqbal (BD), Mahela Jayawardena (SL), Jacques Kallis (SA), Simon Katich (Aus), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Thilan Samaraweera (SL), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Dale Steyn (SA), Graeme Swann (Eng), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Shane Watson (Aus)

ODI Player of the Year
Hashim Amla (SA), Doug Bollinger (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Tillekeratne Dilshan (SL), Ryan Harris (Aus), Michael Hussey (Aus), Jacques Kallis (SA), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), AB de Villiers (SA), Daniel Vettori (NZ), Shane Watson (Aus), Cameron White (Aus)

Emerging Player of the Year
Mohammad Amir (Pak), Umar Akmal (Pak), Tim Bresnan (Eng), Steven Finn (Eng), Shafiul Islam (BD), Ravindra Jadeja (Ind), Virat Kohli (Ind), Angelo Mathews (SL), Eoin Morgan (Eng), Pragyan Ojha (Ind), Tim Paine (Aus), Wayne Parnell (SA), Kemar Roach (WI), Steven Smith (Aus), Paul Stirling (Ire), David Warner (Aus)
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Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
Suleiman Benn (WI) – 4-2-6-4 v Zimbabwe, Port of Spain, 28 Feb 2010
Deandra Dottin (WI Women) – 112 not out (45b, 7x4, 9x6) v South Africa Women, Basseterra, 5 May 2010
Chris Gayle (WI) – 98 (66b, 5x4, 7x6) v India, Bridgetown, 9 May 2010
Michael Hussey (Aus) – 60 not out (24b, 3x4, 5x6) v Pakistan, St Lucia, 14 May 2010
Mahela Jayawardena (SL) – 100 (64b, 10x4 4x6) v Zimbabwe, Guyana, 3 May 2010
Mahela Jayawardena (SL) – 98 not out (56b 9x4, 4x6) v West Indies, Bridgetown, 7 May 2010
Nuwan Kulasekera (SL) – 3-1-4-3 v New Zealand, Lauderhill, 23 May 2010
Ryan McLaren (SA) – 3-0-19-5 v West Indies, North Stand, 19 May 2010
Brendon McMcllum (NZ) – 116 not out (56b, 12x4, 8x6) v Australia, Christchurch, 28 Feb 2010
Eoin Morgan (Eng) – 85 not out (45b, 7x4, 5x6) v South Africa, Johannesburg, 13 Nov 2009
Nehemiah Odhiambo (Zim) – 4-0-20-5 v Scotland, Nairobi, 4 Feb 2010
Ellyse Perry (Aus Women) – 4-0-18-3 v New Zealand Women, Barbados, 16 May 2010
Suresh Raina (Ind) – 101 (60b, 9x4, 5x6) v South Africa, St Lucia, 2 May 2010
Darren Sammy (WI) – 3.5-0-26-5 v Zimbabwe, Port of Spain, 28 Feb 2010

Women's Cricketer of the Year
Suzie Bates (NZ), Nicola Browne (NZ), Katherine Brunt (Eng), Sophie Devine (NZ), Jhulan Goswami (Ind), Lydia Greenway (Eng), Sarah McGlashan (NZ), Shelley Nitschke (Aus), Ellyse Perry (Aus), Leah Poulton (Aus), Mithali Raj (Ind), Gouher Sultana (Ind), Stafanie Taylor (WI)

Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year

Shane Watson (Aus)

Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year

chuckle

Rhino for ODI player of the year (ffs)

The Sky commentators were sooking last night that not a single Pom got a mention in the Cricketer of the Year category.

skully wrote:The Sky commentators were sooking last night that not a single Pom got a mention in the Cricketer of the Year category.

You don't imagine the second best player in the Waugh family doing similar things if the were no Aussie nomination?

My pick for T20 performance of the year (yeah, yeah, IDRGAF either) is McCullum's remarkable 116* v us at Christchurch. That was the day he was paddling Spud for sixes over very fine Fine Leg. All Spud could do was shake his head and laugh.

Ravindra Mighty Jadeja nominated for the awards.

That one nomination finished whatever little credibility ICC awards had.

Surprisning not to see Swann there.

He could've been a strong contender for Test cricketer of the year award.

Yup SG, I agree that it's odd that Swanny is not nommed in the top category.

Harris (played just 2 tests) and Johnson being nominated for cricketer of the year is a bit of joke.

Same is true for Sehwag being nominated for ODI player of the year.

SG wrote:Surprisning not to see Swann there.

He could've been a strong contender for Test cricketer of the year award.

Test Player of the Year
Hashim Amla (SA), James Anderson (Eng), Mohammad Asif (Pak), Doug Bollinger (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Tamim Iqbal (BD), Mahela Jayawardena (SL), Jacques Kallis (SA), Simon Katich (Aus), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Thilan Samaraweera (SL), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Dale Steyn (SA), Graeme Swann (Eng), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Shane Watson (Aus)

Meant to say Cricketer of the year award.

for the qualifying period

Test Batting

ODI Batting

Combined Batting

Test Bowling

ODI Bowling

Combined Bowling

P.S. Combined stats also include T20I stats

FFS, too many players in each category for these awards to be taken as anything other than a PC lark.

skully wrote:My pick for T20 performance of the year (yeah, yeah, IDRGAF either) is McCullum's remarkable 116* v us at Christchurch. That was the day he was paddling Spud for sixes over very fine Fine Leg. All Spud could do was shake his head and laugh.

McCullum is remarkable. I didn't think the stuff he & a couple of others put on was possible.

Zat wrote:FFS, too many players in each category for these awards to be taken as anything other than a PC lark.

I think the not-so-short shortlists get further shortlisted to 6 prior to the event

G.Wood wrote:

Zat wrote:FFS, too many players in each category for these awards to be taken as anything other than a PC lark.

I think the not-so-short shortlists get further shortlisted to 6 prior to the event

So we can hope sanity will prevail and Ricky won't make the shortlist?

This was the committee which chose the nominees for ICC awards,

Clive Lloyd, Matthew Hayden, Ravi Shastri, Angus Fraser and Duncan Fletcher.

matthew hayden?

That probably explains the nomination of Jadeja.

One England player in the T20 is odd seeing as:

its t20 performance of the year, not player. any english performance you think should have been in there above the rest?

Seemingly vilky rates Colly's herculean effort of lifting that pointy trophy as the T20 performance of the year.

vilkrang wrote:One England player in the T20 is odd seeing as:

Any old excuse!

Anyway, Swanneeeee!! has been added to the list after much pom sooking an oversight.

The One wrote:for the qualifying period

Test Batting

ODI Batting

Combined Batting

Test Bowling

ODI Bowling

Combined Bowling

P.S. Combined stats also include T20I stats

Interesting that the top 7 by batting average are all Ind/SL, and Zaheer Khan is the only Ind/SL player to post a bowling average BELOW 40!



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