Indian skipper MS Dhoni was named captain of both the ICC Test and ODI Team of the Year in a glittering ceremony of ICC Awards at Johannesburg on Thursday evening.

Gautam Gambhir won the ICC Test Player of the Year award while Dhoni retained the trophy for the ICC ODI Player of the Year.

List of Awardees:

Cricketer of the Year: Mitchell Johnson (Aus)

Test Player of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (India)

ODI Player of the Year: MS Dhoni (India)

Test team captain: MS Dhoni (India)

ODI team captain: MS Dhoni (India)

Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar (Pak)

Emerging Player: Peter Siddle (Aus)

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: William Porterfield (Ireland)

Spirit of the Cricket: New Zealand

Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Claire Taylor (Eng)

The winners were selected by an elite panel that included former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, Anil Kumble of India, Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan, Bob Taylor of England and New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming.

ICC Test Team of the Year: MS Dhoni (Capt), G. Gambhir, A. Strauss, A.B. de Villiers, S. Tendulkar, T. Samaraweera, M. Clarke, Shakib-ul-Hasan, M. Johnson, S. Broad and S. Steyn; 12th man: Harbhajan Singh

ODI Team of the Year: MS Dhoni (Capt), Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yuvraj Singh, Martin Guptill, Andrew Flintoff, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis and Umar Gul; 12th man: Thilan Thushara

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Tillakaratne Dilshan have been nominated for maximum awards in the Sixth ICC Awards. Eighteen players have been nominated under two categories. The Awards will be given during the ceremony that will be held on October 1 in Johannesburg.

The Nominations are:

Cricketer of the Year

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Tillakaratne Dilshan, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Shakib Al Hasan, Mitchell Johnson, Graham Onions, Thilan Samaraweera, Kumar Sangakkara, Harbhajan Singh, Graeme Smith, Andrew Strauss, Daniel Vettori, AB de Villiers

Test Player of the Year

Stuart Broad, Michael Clarke, MS Dhoni, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Shakib Al Hasan, Mitchell Johnson, VVS Laxman, Jesse Ryder, Thilan Samaraweera, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Peter Siddle, Harbhajan Singh, Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Andrew Strauss, Graeme Swann, Daniel Vettori, AB de Villiers

ODI Player of the Year

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, MS Dhoni, Andrew Flintoff, Chris Gayle, Umar Gul, Martin Guptill, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Muttiah Muralitharan, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Thilan Thushara

Emerging Player of the Year

Martin Guptill, Ben Hilfenhaus, Philip Hughes, Amit Mishra, Graham Onions, Kemar Roach, Jesse Ryder, Peter Siddle

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year

Rizwan Cheema (Canada), Khurram Chohan (Canada), Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands), Trent Johnston (Ireland), Alex Cusack (Ireland), Neil McCallum (Scotland), Kevin O’Brien (Ireland), Niall O’Brien (Ireland), William Porterfield (Ireland), Boyd Rankin (Ireland), Edgar Schiferli (Netherlands), Steve Tikolo (Kenya), Regan West (Ireland), Bas Zuiderent (Netherlands)

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year

Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Dwayne Bravo, Alex Cusack, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Umar Gul, David Hussey, Sanath Jayasuriya, Zaheer Khan, Ajantha Mendis, Wayne Parnell, Abdur Razzak, David Warner

Women’s Cricketer of the Year

Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Holly Colvin (England), Charlotte Edwards (England), Laura Marsh (England), Sana Mir (Pakistan), Shelley Nitschke (Australia), Mithali Raj (India), Karen Rolton (Australia), Priyanka Roy (India), Lisa Sthalekar (Australia), Claire Taylor (England), Sarah Taylor (England), Stefanie Taylor (West Indies), Haidee Tiffin (New Zealand), Aimee Watkins (New Zealand)

Umpire of the Year

Billy Bowden (New Zealand), Aleem Dar (Pakistan), Steve Davis (Australia), Ian Gould (England), Tony Hill (New Zealand), Daryl Harper (Australia), Asad Rauf (Pakistan), Simon Taufel (Australia)

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