Watch ICC Awards 2009 Winners Results
The ICC Awards 2009 celebrated their 6th year and was held at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg in South Africa courtesy of sponsor LG.
The inaugural ICC Awards took place before the focus turns to the four semi final teams which start on Friday. It is an occasion that can be enjoyed by all past and present players and celebrate a wonderful year of cricket with players being rewarded for there hard work and success and enjoy the up coming season with more interesting battles taking place.
The ICC World Player of the Year was given to Mitchell Johnson who deserved the award after his sublime performances against South Africa home and away with bat and ball made him the best contender to win the award. His nearest rivals were from India Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir who have had a quite magnificent year as individuals and the success India have had which would have been deserving to be given the award. But with not winning the biggest award both Indians won the next two awards for Dhoni winning the best one day player and Gambhir winning the best player award so there achievements were recognised at the highest stage. Also there was more success for India and Dhoni who was also nominate captain for the one day and test teams of the year which shows his credentials as one of the best captains around.
ICC Awards 2009 short-lists of nominees
Cricketer of the Year
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Andrew Strauss (Eng)
Test Player of the Year
Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Thilan Samaraweera (SL)
Andrew Strauss (Eng)
ODI Player of the Year
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
Virender Sehwag (Ind)
Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
Emerging Player
Ben Hilfenhaus (Aus)
Graham Onions (Eng)
Jesse Ryder (NZ)
Peter Siddle (Aus)
Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year
Rizwan Cheema (Can)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned)
William Porterfield (Ire)
Edgar Schiferli (Ned)
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
Shahid Afridi (Pak) for scoring 51 off 34 balls and taking 2-16 against South Africa during the ICC WT20 semi-final in Nottingham on 18 June
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) for scoring 96 not out off 57 balls against the West Indies in the semi-final of the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 19 June
Chris Gayle (WI) for hitting 88 off 50 balls against Australia during the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 6 June
Umar Gul (Pak) for taking 5-6 against New Zealand during the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 13 June
Women’s Cricketer of the Year
Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
Shelley Nitschke (Aus)
Claire Taylor (Eng)
Umpire of the Year
Aleem Dar
Tony Hill
Asad Rauf
Simon Taufel
Spirit of Cricket
Australia
England
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
ICC Cricketer of the Year – Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
ICC ODI Player of the year : MS Dhoni (India)
ICC Test Player of the Year – Gautam Gambhir (India)
ICC Twenty20 International Player of the Year – Tilakratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)
ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Claire Taylor (England)
ICC Emerging Player of the Year – Peter Siddle (Australia)
ICC Spirit of the Cricket of the Year – New Zealand
ICC Associate Player of the Year – William Porterfield (Ireland)
ICC Umpire of the Year – Aleem Dar (Pakistan)
