AWARDS Planet Cricket Awards 2023 - FINAL VOTING IS CLOSED

[Aislabie]

Individual - nominations

Men's Cricketer of the Year - Pat Cummins - It's incredibly hard to look past him, because I firmly believe him to be the best cricketer in the world currently.
Women's Cricketer of the Year - Deepti Sharma - Her stunning contributions, especially in Tests, are a large part of India overhauling Australia as the best team in the world.
Best Captain of the year (Men/Women) - aus: Pat Cummins - How can you look past World Championships in two formats? Also, I fully expect to be nominating Neil Brand next year.
Men's Test Player of the Year - Pat Cummins - It's far from his best year in outright bowling numbers, but that just says how good he truly is.
Men's ODI Player of the Year - Glenn Maxwell - Even if all he had done was that one innings against Afghanistan, he'd have my nomination.
Men's T20I Player of the Year - Suryakumar Yadav - Is he the best to ever do it in T20 cricket?
Men's Emerging Player of the Year - Yashasvi Jaiswal - Has debuted in Tests and T20Is this year, and been exciting in both. What a talent.

Women's Test Cricketer of the Year - Deepti Sharma - For the reasons mentioned.
Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year - Nat Sciver-Brunt - In most matches she's played, she's looked like she was batting on a different surface to everyone else. (Honourable mention for Amelia Kerr)
Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year - Hayley Matthews - Wow. What a player.
Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year - Phoebe Litchfield - It's rather fitting that she has emerged right as Meg Lanning has faded from the Australian team.

T20 League player of the year (Men/Women) - Imad Wasim - 857 runs @ 47.61 and 41 wickets @ 22.64. Had an absolute monster year, and still being underused by the Stars.
Most Improved Cricketer (Men/Women) - Josh Tongue - has done a huge amount of work on his body and technique in order to enable his success at Test level.
Associate Player of the Year (Men/Women) - Roelef van der Merwe - Everywhere he went this year, he was a pivotal part of teams that achieved more than the sum of their parts.

Umpire of the Year (Men/Women) - Richard Illingworth - Stood in the WTC final and I think made 100% of correct decisions. Hats off.
Spirit of Cricket Award - The Australian team being completely gracious in victory; really goes to show the change in culture that Pat Cummins has been at the front of.
Best Cricket Moment - Travis Head bringing up his hundred in the World Cup final to go with his hundred in the World Test Championship.
Worst Cricket Moment - Angelo Mathews being timed out for having an equipment failure, then the ICC trying to cover themselves with a factually incorrect statement.
Best Commentator (Men/Women) - Isa Guha - She's had another excellent year, and she's even starting to win over even the very oldest farts from the viewer base. She's also excellent on both TV and radio.

Team - nominations

Best International Side (Men/Women) - Australia Men's Team - Two world titles in one year.
Best Test Side - Australia - World Champions
Best ODI Side - Australia - World Champions; even though India were the outright better cricket team, Australia were the ones who made their chances count.
Best T20I Side - India - And they have a pool of about 50 players who can all do the job at this level.
Best Women's Test Side - India
Best Women's ODI Side - South Africa
Best Women's T20I Side - Australia
Best Associate Side (Men/Women) - Uganda Men's Team

Member/Forum Awards

Best Post Contributor - @wasteyouryouth
Veteran Member (> 5 years on the site) - @VC the slogger
Rookie of the Year (< 18 months on the site) - @pillowprocter
Funniest Member - @ShamiLoverGlipGlops
Most Helpful Member - @wasteyouryouth
Best Cricket Discussion Poster - @Bevab
Best Avatar - Honestly I really like my own. Are we allowed to nominate ourselves?
Best presenter in the league section - @Na Maloom Afraad
Best comeback member - @VC the slogger

Best Thread - Cricket World Cup Thread
Most Engaging Thread (non-cricket) - The books thread really should be, we just need to post in it more - myself especially.
Best Cricket Game - Cricket World Cup 2023 just kidding
Best League - World of Cricket, obviously

 

[pillowprocter]

Love love love for all the nominations, even though one was enough to get me on there

 

[Till Valhalla]

Will lock this down in 24 hours

Can I ask for another 24 hours?
Please!!!!!!!

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Can I ask for another 24 hours?
Please!!!!!!!

I will allow it

 

[Till Valhalla]

I will allow it

Thanks very much

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Thanks very much

He's giving himself an extension 'cause he don't wanna do no work today

 

[RUDI]

@wasteyouryouth kindly add one more from my side.

The underappreciated member: @asprin

 

[Till Valhalla]

Individual - nominations

Men's Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh
Women's Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh in a wig
Best Captain of the year (Men/Women) - Mitch Marsh
Men's Test Player of the Year - Mitch Marsh
Men's ODI Player of the Year - Mitch Marsh
Men's T20I Player of the Year - Mitch Marsh
Men's Emerging Player of the Year - Mitch Marsh

Women's Test Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh in a wig
Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh in a wig
Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh in a wig
Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year - Mitch Marsh in a wig

T20 League player of the year (Men/Women) - Mitch Marsh
Most Improved Cricketer (Men/Women) - Mitch Marsh
Associate Player of the Year (Men/Women) - Mitch Marsh (I would leave the task to finding his associate connection to @VC the slogger and @Aislabie , they will find out thar his mother's brother's son's cousin's wife's father's son's brother in law has been born there or married to some associate country person)

Umpire of the Year (Men/Women) - The umpires that didn't give Mitch Marsh out.
Spirit of Cricket Award - Mitch Marsh trying to help Pakistan by giving an early but Pakistan being Pakistan and dropping it, they can't even use the good nature of of Mitch Marsh.
Best Cricket Moment - Mitch Marsh keeping foot on the world cup trophy.
Worst Cricket Moment - Mitch Marsh getting out in 90s.
Best Commentator (Men/Women) - The commentators that praise Mitch Marsh.

Team - nominations

Best International Side (Men/Women) - Mitch Marsh's side.
Best Test Side - Mitch Marsh's Test Side
Best ODI Side - Mitch Marsh's Odi Side
Best T20I Side - Mitch Marsh's T20i Side
Best Women's ODI Side - Mitch Marsh in a wig Odi Side
Best Women's T20I Side - Mitch Marsh in a wig T20I Side
Best Associate Side (Men/Women) - The Side Mitch Marsh will be eligible

Member/Forum Awards

Best Post Contributor - @Paranoid Kendroid
Veteran Member (> 5 years on the site) - @ahmedleo414
Rookie of the Year (< 18 months on the site) - @Bigby Wolf (as PP has already been nominated)
Funniest Member - @icyman for his posts in cricket discussion
Most Helpful Member - @RUDI
Best Cricket Discussion Poster - @Bevab as @wasteyouryouth banned himself
Most Improved Member - @Disharies
Best Download Maker - I only know @wasteyouryouth
Best Thread Starter - @ddrap14 drafts
Best Avatar - @Ed Smith
The underappreciated member - @CremerCurrans
The Innovator - @icyman for his innovative funny posts in cricket discussion I don't know how he does it.
Planet Cricket Ambassador of the year - @RUDI for playing in Mafia World Cup, @CerealKiller would wish to be nominated but he does the opposite by posting his blogs here, how many time he have mentioned PC on his blogs or tweets.
Best presenter in the league section - @CremerCurrans
Best comeback member - @Viper.
Best Draft - @ddrap14 latest one.

Best Thread - What are you listening to
Most Engaging Thread (non-cricket) - Any mafia game thread
Best Cricket Game - Cricket 24
Best League - Did WoC win last year, so then @Na Maloom Afraad IODC for his auction

The following categories are also included, but all eligible members are already nominated:

Best Admin - Anyone except @asprin
Best Staff Member - Anyone except @asprin
Best Fantasy Cricket Staff - Anyone except @asprin
Best Sportsbook staff - Anyone except @asprin

 

[wasteyouryouth]

So, with that, this stage is closed.

Thank you to all those who submitted nominations. I drafted my own but I can't find them.

Final voting will be ready when I figure out how to do that.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Instead of comeback or Rookie member I should be given the tag best deleted member lol.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Instead of comeback or Rookie member I should be given the tag best deleted member lol.

Luckiest Member

 

[CerealKiller]

as PP has already been nominated

Interesting nickname @pillowprocter

 

[pillowprocter]

Interesting nickname @pillowprocter

Could lead to some wild misconceptions, but screw it we ball

 

[Till Valhalla]

Could lead to some wild misconceptions, but screw it we ball

Big ball?

 

[Aravind.]

Missed to post the nominations, looking forward to vote.