ICC Awards 2009 nominees list announced

[Fatal Shot]

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What that guy said

 

[SciD]

Its not his fault he is playing on roads.

I know it will probably go to Strauss, still Samarweera has been more prolific. Don't forget he had 1 less match in Pakistan where he was due for another double ton.

 

[Dare]

Women's Cricketer of the Year:
Stuart Broad (ENG)

:hpraise:hpraise:rtfl:rtfl
ahahah best one I heard in a while!

 

[McLOVIN]

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Abdur Razzak

i thought it was a mistake. i thought they meant to put AbduL Razzak (pak)

but why Abdur Razzak there? what did he do?

MacLovin added 3 Minutes and 19 Seconds later...

Only T20I: South Africa v Bangladesh at Johannesburg, Nov 5, 2008 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

for this?

 

[SciD]

i thought it was a mistake. i thought they meant to put AbduL Razzak (pak)

but why Abdur Razzak there? what did he do?

MacLovin added 3 Minutes and 19 Seconds later...

Only T20I: South Africa v Bangladesh at Johannesburg, Nov 5, 2008 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

for this?

Those are ones who will not win.

 

[sohum]

It's from an Indian newspaper--there're bound to be mistakes (including that Graham Onions nomination?). Cricinfo hasn't had it up yet, so it may just be the imagination of the editors of that paper.

sohum added 3 Minutes and 25 Seconds later...

Nevermind, Cricinfo has Onions in there, too.

 

[King Pietersen]

It's up on the BBC Sport website as well:

England captain Andrew Strauss and fast bowler Graham Onions have both been nominated for the International Cricket Council cricketer of the year award.

The pair starred in the victorious Ashes-winning side this summer.

Also among the list of 14 nominees are Australia pace bowler Mitchell Johnson, Sri Lanka batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan and India skipper Mahendra Dhoni.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | Strauss & Onions up for ICC award

It hasn't been put onto the ICC website yet, or Cricinfo as you mentioned. So I wouldn't take these nomination lists as the confirmed lists, although they may well be. Onions nominated for Cricketer of The Year is certainly a strange one.

Edit: Oh yeh, on Cricinfo now. Just have to presume the ICC were desperate for names, surely you can't win an ICC award based on form in County Cricket, a few wickets against a dejected Windies and then 1 decent spell against the Aussies? =/ Razzak's a strange one as well, especially considering the ban on his action was only lifted in March.

 

[sohum]

It hasn't been put onto the ICC website yet, or Cricinfo as you mentioned.

Cricinfo has it now. Weird.

 

[SciD]

I think its time you start giving respect to Indian news agency.

 

[sohum]

I think its time you start giving respect to Indian news agency.

I'll give respect to them before I give it to Graham Onions.

 

[rahuldravidfan]

To have Mitchell Johnson & Peter Siddle, of all ridiculous (or "great", as they call them ONLY in Australia) bowlers from Australia, to be nominated in not one but two categories is a bit of a joke really & quite hilarious. Both are extremely overrated and can't even do well against teams like Scotland. :laugh

Onions' nomination is a shocker . Guptill is 12 matches old and too early to nominate. To see Jesse Ryder being nominated in the "Emerging Player" category despite making his LOI debut in Feb 2008 is beyond general logic and my understanding.

Also, to see VERY FEW Aussie batsmen being nominated in the Entire list goes on to highlight how "spectacular" & "champion-like" they are :rtfl

My picks-
Cricketer of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (IND)
Test Player of the Year: Gautam Gambhir (IND)
ODI Player of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (IND)/Yuvi Singh (IND)
Emerging Player: Philip Hughes (AUS)/Amit Mishra (IND)
Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: Any Irishman
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Shahid Afridi (PAK)
Women's Cricketer of the Year: Charlotte Edwards (ENG)
Umpire of the Year: Rudi Koertzen (Its shocking to see him missing from the list just coz the Aussies didn't like him)/Simon Taufel (AUS)

PS - It is awesome to see our media faster in reporting than the ICC & Cricinfo :hpraise

 

[AbhishekS]

I think Virender Sehwag deserved to be in Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year.

 

[SciD]

This is no popularity contest. :laugh

 

[King Cricket]

Cricketer of the Year:
Tilkaratne Dilshan

Test Player of the Year:
Gautam Gambhir

ODI Player of the Year:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Emerging Player:
Peter Siddle

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year:
Ryan Ten Doeschate

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year:
Tilkaratne Dilshan

Women's Cricketer of the Year:
Priyanka Roy

Umpire of the Year:
Billy Bowden (I wanna see a new face, Taufel just keeps on winning it )

There goes my picks...

 

[SciD]

Warner is T20 performance of the year. Nobody can beat it.

scion_sid added 0 Minutes and 50 Seconds later...

And since cricket chat is dead for 2 months I will spice things up.

Spirit of cricket award = India