ICC Awards Thread.

[irottev]

Nominations are out. The ceremony is held on October 23rd.

Here go the lists:

Cricketer of the Year
Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Michael Hussey, Andrew Flintoff, Mohammed Yousuf, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Younis Khan, Monty Panesar, Brett Lee, Makhaya Ntini, Adam Gilchrist.

Test Player of the Year
Hussey, Ponting, Yousuf, Flintoff, Warne, Muralitharan, Dravid, Jayawardene, Younis, Hayden, Ntini, Kumar Sangakarra, Kevin Pietersen

One-day Player of the Year
Hussey, Ponting, Flintoff, Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Dravid, Muttiah Muralitharan, Pietersen, Yousuf, Lee, Herschelle Gibbs, Shahid Afridi, Inzamam-ul Haq, Adam Gilchrist, Yuvraj Singh, Shane Bond, Irfan Pathan,

Emerging Player of the Year
Panesar, Alastair Cook, Denesh Ramdin, Malinga Bandara, Mohammed Asif, Upul Tharanga, Ian Bell, Shahriar Nafees.

Captain of the Year
Dravid, Ponting, Jayawardene, Michael Vaughan

Umpire of the Year
Simon Taufel, Aleem Dar, Rudi Koertzen.

Women's Cricketer of the Year
Karen Rolton, Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Anjum Chopra, Neetu David, Claire Taylor, Katherine Brunt, Emily Drumm

Cricinfo link.
http://wwwc3.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/258779.html


Personally, I think noinating Monty as cricker of the year is an absolute joke. I would say he will have a good chance at emerging, but, yeah, he hasn't be THAT amazing. Anyway good luck to him and congrats.

Why am I not surprised we have only 1 New Zealand player? We are always overlooked. What about Peter Fulton? He is emerging and has played Fantastic this year in both ODI's and Tests. He should of been an instant onto the list. Asif, Tharanga or Monty will win. I would vote for Tharanga myself.

Cricket of the year - for me is Jaywardene no contest. Yousuf and Dravid wouldn't surprise me.

Test player - Yousuf.

One dayer - Bond. lol. Hey 1 nomination, lets make it count. Jaywardene will probably win. Maybe Hussey.

Captain - Jaywardene
Umpire - Taufel or Rudi.
Womens - I know nothing about, ill say the Kiwi chick .

 

[Pak_cricketer]

Cricketer of the Year: Jayawardene
Test Player of the Year: Mohammed Yousuf
One-day Player of the Year: Hussey
Emerging Player of the Year: Mohammad Asif
Captain of the Year: Jayawardene
Umpire of the Year: Taufal or Dar

 

[ZexyZahid]

I consider Panesar's inclusion in the Cricket of the Year section also a joke, just like Vaughan has been placed as Captain of the Year. He was most of the time injured in the period, which the cricket players are being reviewed on.

Also there will come a short list of the nominees before the real voting begins.

 

[JamesyJames3]

I wouldn't go as far as to say Panesar's inclusion is a joke! Think about it, he has bowled against the best players of spin in the world in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India and has got out all the big names in those teams. He has bowled brilliantly in his short career and fully deserves to be on that list in my opinion.

 

[aussie1st]

My picks

Cricketer of the Year
Michael Hussey

Test Player of the Year
Jayawardene

One-day Player of the Year
Hussey

Emerging Player of the Year
Mohammed Asif

Captain of the Year
Jayawardene

Umpire of the Year
Simon Taufel

Women's Cricketer of the Year
Karen Rolton

Women of the year no idea really, Rolton sounds like the pick as usual. Captain of the year is a tricky one.

 

[zreh]

Cricketer of the year: Ricky Ponting
Test Player of the year: Rahul Dravid
One Day Player of the year: Yuvraj Singh (why is Dhoni not nominated?)
Emerging player of the year: Mohammed Asif
Captain of the year: Mahela Jawardene (Vaughn is the best out of the 3, but he didn't play much.
Umpire of the year: Simon Taufel easily

I find it extremely disturbing how Gilchrist was nominated for cricketer of the year...But these awards mean jack sh*t anyways

 

[ZexyZahid]

Now you've mentioned it I don't understand why Dhoni is there. He actually was on top of the ODI list, if I remember it right.

 

[aditya123]

Even I found it baffling that Dhoni was not nominated. He was more successful than Gilchrist this year.
If 1000+ ODI runs at an avg of around 50 not enough to earn a nomination in the `Cricket Oscars` then what else is ??
What did S.Bond do to earn a nomination ?

 

[ali_ed2001]

agree with aditya..some of the people in these list are shocking..what has vaughan done since ashes ? same case with afridi, he hasnt done any good to be in that list of one day player of the year...Munaf Patel of India should be in the emerging player of the year list as well..

Cricketer of the year: Ricky Ponting
Test Player of the year: Mohammad Yousuf
One Day Player of the year: Hussey
Emerging player of the year: Mohammed Asif/Monty Panesar
Captain of the year: Mahela Jawardene
Umpire of the year: Simon Taufel

 

[Vcassano]

Cricketer of the Year: Jayawardene, Yousuf at a stretch


Test Player of the Year: Jayawardene


One-day Player of the Year: Afridi

Emerging Player of the Year: Has to be one of the English three, I say Panesar

Captain of the Year: Dravid

Umpire of the Year: Taufel

Women's Cricketer of the Year: Errr Claire Taylor...?

 

[aussie_ben91]

I'm don't think Jayawardene has done enough to secure a spot over Ponting or Hussey for that matter.

Cricketer of the year: Ricky Ponting or Michael Hussey
Test Player of the year: Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey or Mohammad Yousuf
One Day Player of the year: Michael Hussey
Emerging player of the year: Mohammed Asif
Captain of the year: Rahul Dravid
Umpire of the year: Simon Taufel

 

[BigCrickNan]

Haha Monty for cricketers of the year :laugh

Cricketer of the Year: Flintoff
Test Player of the Year: Warne
One-day Player of the Year: Hussey
Emerging Player of the Year: Monty Panesar
Captain of the Year: Dravid
Umpire of the Year: Taufal

I'm surprised none of you haven't picked Flintoff.. he takes he same amount of wickets as most specialist bowlers ans scores loads of runs on top of it... and was captain in India, surely the hardest test.

 

[nightprowler10]

Without really looking at the stats...

Cricketer of the year: Ricky Ponting


Test player of the year: Muhammad Yousuf

One Day player of the year: I'll have to get back on that one. (No Dhoni? And what did Afridi do this year in ODIs?)


Emerging player of the year: Mohammad Asif

Captain of the year: Toss up between Ponting and Jayawardane


Umpire of the year: Taufel

Women's cricketer of the year: err...I'll have to get back on that.

Monty deserves to be up there as player of the year as much as Asif does, which is not at all.

 

[BigCrickNan]

Toss up between Ponting and Jayawardane

No offence to you but Ponting's captaincy isn't great at all, i'd rather have Fleming up tehre because he's a great captain.

 

[irottev]

Even I found it baffling that Dhoni was not nominated. He was more successful than Gilchrist this year.
If 1000+ ODI runs at an avg of around 50 not enough to earn a nomination in the `Cricket Oscars` then what else is ??
What did S.Bond do to earn a nomination ?

Couldn't agree more about Dhoni.

About Bond, well he earned ODI player of the year nomination a hell of a lot more than Monty Panesar did! Heres his record from the nomination time frame:

18 matches, 36 wickets, best of 6/19, bowling average 18.11.

4 were against Zimbabwe, but the rest, Sri Lanka, South Africa India and West Indies, who arn't bad sides. Especially the first three. Heres one of his balls!

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Brilliant!

I say he well and truly deserved it myself. It doesn;t surprise me that non-kiwi members had no idea about it and thats because we go totally unnoticed most of the time. lol