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Three Indians in fray for ICC Awards on Monday
London: Along with India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, a number of Indian players are in fray to win top honours in this year's LG ICC Awards to be held here on Monday.
Zaheer, who was ruled out of cricket for the next four months due to hamstring and ankle injuries during India's tour of England, was nominated in as many as three categories. Besides the 33-year-old pace bowler, three other Indian cricketers - Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni - were also nominated in two categories each.
Five other cricketers - English duo of Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann, South Africa's AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla and Australia's Shane Watson also feature in three different categories.
In the long-list of nominees, Zaheer finds his name in the ICC Cricketer of the Year award for Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy besides Test Player of the Year and ODI Player of the Year.
Tendulkar and Dravid also feature in the list of nominess for the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year award while Dhoni has been nominated for ODI Player of the Year and LG People's Choice Award.
Other Indian cricketers to have been nominated for this year's ICC awards are Ishant Sharma (Test Player of the Year), Harbhajan Singh (Test Player of the Year), Gautam Gambhir (ODI Player of the Year), Virat Kohli (ODI Player of the Year), Munaf Patel (ODI Player of the Year), Virender Sehwag (ODI Player of the Year), Yuvraj Singh (ODI Player of the Year), Jhulan Goswami (Women's Cricketer of the Year), Poonam Raut (Women's Cricketer of the Year) and Abhinav Mukund (Emerging Player of the Year).
Apart from 10 individual prizes, this year's LG ICC Awards will also feature 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.
Also for the second time, this year's award ceremony will feature the LG People's Choice Award, which will be chosen by cricket fans around the world through online voting from a short-list of five cricketers - Jonathan Trott, Dhoni, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara and Hashim Amla.
Source:Cricnews
London: Along with India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, a number of Indian players are in fray to win top honours in this year's LG ICC Awards to be held here on Monday.
Zaheer, who was ruled out of cricket for the next four months due to hamstring and ankle injuries during India's tour of England, was nominated in as many as three categories. Besides the 33-year-old pace bowler, three other Indian cricketers - Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni - were also nominated in two categories each.
Five other cricketers - English duo of Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann, South Africa's AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla and Australia's Shane Watson also feature in three different categories.
In the long-list of nominees, Zaheer finds his name in the ICC Cricketer of the Year award for Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy besides Test Player of the Year and ODI Player of the Year.
Tendulkar and Dravid also feature in the list of nominess for the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year award while Dhoni has been nominated for ODI Player of the Year and LG People's Choice Award.
Other Indian cricketers to have been nominated for this year's ICC awards are Ishant Sharma (Test Player of the Year), Harbhajan Singh (Test Player of the Year), Gautam Gambhir (ODI Player of the Year), Virat Kohli (ODI Player of the Year), Munaf Patel (ODI Player of the Year), Virender Sehwag (ODI Player of the Year), Yuvraj Singh (ODI Player of the Year), Jhulan Goswami (Women's Cricketer of the Year), Poonam Raut (Women's Cricketer of the Year) and Abhinav Mukund (Emerging Player of the Year).
Apart from 10 individual prizes, this year's LG ICC Awards will also feature 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.
Also for the second time, this year's award ceremony will feature the LG People's Choice Award, which will be chosen by cricket fans around the world through online voting from a short-list of five cricketers - Jonathan Trott, Dhoni, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara and Hashim Amla.
Source:Cricnews
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ICC announces ODI team of the year: Tilakaratne Dilshan, Virender Sehwag, Kumar Sangakkara, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (Captain and Wicket-keeper), Graeme Swann, Umar Gul, Dale Steyn, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga (12th man)
Indian team boycotts ICC awards.
London: The Indian cricket team was involved in yet another controversy on the England tour when they skipped the annual ICC Award function held here on Monday, stating that the team hadn't been informed about the event in advance.
"The team was informed about the event only in the afternoon and it wasn't possible to make it to the function at such a short notice," the team manager for the ongoing tour, Shivlal Yadav, was quoted as saying by the Indian Express.
However, an ICC spokesperson refuted the charges, saying that the Indian team was told about the the event two months ago.
Thirteen Indian cricketers, including MS Dhoni, Zaheer Khan, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, were shortlisted in various categories for the prestigious ICC Awards.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned out to be the lone Indian to win an ICC award this year.
Tendulkar, who was named Cricketer of the Year in 2010 when the awards function was held in Bangalore, missed out this time.
England's Jonathan Trott won the top award after beating competition from his national teammate Alastair Cook and South Africa's Hashim Amla, besides that of Tendulkar.
India's opening batsman Gautam Gambhir also missed out the ODI Player of the Year Award which was won by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara.
Four Indian players - Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer - were included in the ICC ODI team of the year.
Source:Cricnews
London: The Indian cricket team was involved in yet another controversy on the England tour when they skipped the annual ICC Award function held here on Monday, stating that the team hadn't been informed about the event in advance.
"The team was informed about the event only in the afternoon and it wasn't possible to make it to the function at such a short notice," the team manager for the ongoing tour, Shivlal Yadav, was quoted as saying by the Indian Express.
However, an ICC spokesperson refuted the charges, saying that the Indian team was told about the the event two months ago.
Thirteen Indian cricketers, including MS Dhoni, Zaheer Khan, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, were shortlisted in various categories for the prestigious ICC Awards.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned out to be the lone Indian to win an ICC award this year.
Tendulkar, who was named Cricketer of the Year in 2010 when the awards function was held in Bangalore, missed out this time.
England's Jonathan Trott won the top award after beating competition from his national teammate Alastair Cook and South Africa's Hashim Amla, besides that of Tendulkar.
India's opening batsman Gautam Gambhir also missed out the ODI Player of the Year Award which was won by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara.
Four Indian players - Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer - were included in the ICC ODI team of the year.
Source:Cricnews
