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ICC Annual Awards: List of Short-listed nominees

September 15, 2009 By: admin1 Category: Cricket News, Match Summary No Comments →

Here is the list of cricketers who have been short listed for ICC Annual Awards that is to be announced on October 1 in Johannesburg.
Short-lists of nominees (in alphabetical order):
Cricketer of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Andrew Strauss (Eng).
Test Player of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Thilan Samaraweera (SL), Andrew Strauss (Eng).
ODI Player of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Yuvraj Singh (Ind).
Emerging Player: Ben Hilfenhaus (Aus), Graham Onions (Eng), Jesse Ryder (NZ), Peter Siddle (Aus).
Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: Rizwan Cheema (Can), Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned), William Porterfield (Ire), Edgar Schiferli (Ned).
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Shahid Afridi (Pak), Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL), Chris Gayle (WI), Umar Gul (Pak).
Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Charlotte Edwards (Eng), Shelley Nitschke (Aus), Claire Taylor (Eng).
Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar, Tony Hill, Asad Rauf, Simon Taufel.
Spirit of Cricket: Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka.
Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for Cricketer of the Year was short listed after voting by an independent 25-member academy.
Dhoni is also in contention to retain the ODI Player of the Year award he won last year as he is short-listed in that category with team-mates Yuvraj and Sehwag as well as West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
Pacer Zaheer Khan, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman, Amit Mishra and women team’s former captain Mithali Raj, who made it to various categories earlier were left out of the final list of nominees.
Mitchell Johnson is the lone Aussie to make to the nominees’ list.
This year’s awards include eight individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year and the award to the side that has adhered most to the Spirit of Cricket.
The 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 included former players such as Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan, Bob Taylor of England and New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming.
The Spirit of Cricket award was voted on by all international captains as well as all members of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees.
The Umpire of the Year award was voted on by the captains and the match referees based on the umpires’ performance statistics.
The LG ICC Annual Awards ceremony is now in its sixth year and this year it will be held in Johannesburg to coincide with the ICC Champions Trophy. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007) and Dubai (2008).

Here is the list of cricketers who have been short listed for ICC Annual Awards that is to be announced on October 1 in Johannesburg.

Short-lists of nominees (in alphabetical order):

Cricketer of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Andrew Strauss (Eng).

Test Player of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Thilan Samaraweera (SL), Andrew Strauss (Eng).

ODI Player of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Yuvraj Singh (Ind).

Emerging Player: Ben Hilfenhaus (Aus), Graham Onions (Eng), Jesse Ryder (NZ), Peter Siddle (Aus).

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: Rizwan Cheema (Can), Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned), William Porterfield (Ire), Edgar Schiferli (Ned).

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Shahid Afridi (Pak), Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL), Chris Gayle (WI), Umar Gul (Pak).

Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Charlotte Edwards (Eng), Shelley Nitschke (Aus), Claire Taylor (Eng).

Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar, Tony Hill, Asad Rauf, Simon Taufel.

Spirit of Cricket: Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka.

Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for Cricketer of the Year was short listed after voting by an independent 25-member academy.

Dhoni is also in contention to retain the ODI Player of the Year award he won last year as he is short-listed in that category with team-mates Yuvraj and Sehwag as well as West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Pacer Zaheer Khan, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman, Amit Mishra and women team’s former captain Mithali Raj, who made it to various categories earlier were left out of the final list of nominees.

Mitchell Johnson is the lone Aussie to make to the nominees’ list.

This year’s awards include eight individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year and the award to the side that has adhered most to the Spirit of Cricket.

The 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 included former players such as Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan, Bob Taylor of England and New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming.

The Spirit of Cricket award was voted on by all international captains as well as all members of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees.

The Umpire of the Year award was voted on by the captains and the match referees based on the umpires’ performance statistics.

The LG ICC Annual Awards ceremony is now in its sixth year and this year it will be held in Johannesburg to coincide with the ICC Champions Trophy. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007) and Dubai (2008).

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Match 4: West Indies vs India: India won ODI series

July 06, 2009 By: admin1 Category: Cricket News 2 Comments →

India made amends for their Twenty20 World Cup disaster by winning the ODI series against West Indies by 2-1 after rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium on Sunday.
The tourists won the four-match series 2-1 following victories in the series opener in Jamaica and the third match on Friday. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was adjudged the Man of the Series.
The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field.
West Indies were 27 for one when rain interrupted play for the second time after they had lost the crucial wicket of skipper Chris Gayle for a duck.
Runako Morton (12 not out) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (12 not out) were at the crease when play was called off.
With this victory, India registered only their second bilateral series triumph in the Caribbean. Last time they won a series in West Indies was in 2002 under Sourav Ganguly’s captaincy.
India had earlier won the first match of the series by 20 runs, while West Indies came back strongly in the second, hammering the Dhoni-led side by eight wickets.
However riding on Dhoni’s brilliance, India took the unassailable 2-1 lead, winning the third ODI by six wickets with a ball to spare.

India made amends for their Twenty20 World Cup disaster by winning the ODI series against West Indies by 2-1 after rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium on Sunday.

The tourists won the four-match series 2-1 following victories in the series opener in Jamaica and the third match on Friday. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was adjudged the Man of the Series.

Dhoni with Cup

Dhoni with Cup

The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field.

West Indies were 27 for one when rain interrupted play for the second time after they had lost the crucial wicket of skipper Chris Gayle for a duck.

Runako Morton (12 not out) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (12 not out) were at the crease when play was called off.

Team India

Team India

With this victory, India registered only their second bilateral series triumph in the Caribbean. Last time they won a series in West Indies was in 2002 under Sourav Ganguly’s captaincy.

India had earlier won the first match of the series by 20 runs, while West Indies came back strongly in the second, hammering the Dhoni-led side by eight wickets.

However riding on Dhoni’s brilliance, India took the unassailable 2-1 lead, winning the third ODI by six wickets with a ball to spare.

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Match 4: India Vs West Indies

July 05, 2009 By: admin1 Category: Cricket News No Comments →

‘Men in Blue’ – India are now one step away from a rare One-Day International series victory in the Caribbean.
They face West Indies in the fourth and final ODI on Sunday at the Beausejour Cricket Ground confident in the knowledge that they cannot lose the brief series.
The visitors won the rain-affected third ODI by six wickets on Friday at the same venue to take an unstoppable 2-1 lead in the series.
The match is delayed as of now due to the dampness in pitch.
Teams:
West Indies: CH Gayle, RS Morton, RR Sarwan, S Chanderpaul, DJ Bravo, DM Bravo, D Ramdin, JE Taylor, DE Bernard, SJ Benn, R Rampaul
India: G Gambhir, D Karthik, MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, R Sharma, A Nayar, Y Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, A Nehra, I Sharma

‘Men in Blue’ – India are now one step away from a rare One-Day International series victory in the Caribbean.

They face West Indies in the fourth and final ODI on Sunday at the Beausejour Cricket Ground confident in the knowledge that they cannot lose the brief series.

The visitors won the rain-affected third ODI by six wickets on Friday at the same venue to take an unstoppable 2-1 lead in the series.

The final match was initially delayed due to dampness in pitch. However, the toss was over after few mins of wait and like the previous match, India have won the toss and opted to bowl first. And rains have started again and we are definite to have a shortened game.

Teams:

West Indies: CH Gayle, RS Morton, RR Sarwan, S Chanderpaul, DJ Bravo, DM Bravo, D Ramdin, JE Taylor, DE Bernard, SJ Benn, R Rampaul

India: G Gambhir, D Karthik, MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, R Sharma, A Nayar, Y Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, A Nehra, I Sharma

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