ICC Awards: Tendulkar named ICC Player of the Year

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Bangalore, 06 October 2010: Virender Sehwag, the India opener, has been named the Test Player of the Year during the 2010 ICC Awards in Bangalore. He was also part of the Test Team of the Year, which was lead by MS Dhoni. The other members of the Test team of the year were Kumar Sangakkara, Graeme Swann, Sachin Tendulkar, Hashim Amla, Simon Katich, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis and Doug Bollinger.

 

Ricky Ponting was captain of the ODI team of the year, leading a team comprising Tendulkar, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, AB de Villiers, Paul Collingwood, Dhoni, Daniel Vettori, Stuart Broad, Bollinger and Ryan Harris. de Villiers, the South African batsman, won the ODI Player of the Year award, edging out Tendulkar, Harris and Watson, who were the other nominees in the category. Tendulkar’s first award of the night was the people’s choice award.

 

Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand batsman, won the award for the best Twenty20 performance of the year for his 116 not out against Australia in Christchurch in February. McCullum’s was the first winner announced during the the 2010 ICC awards in Bangalore. McCullum edged out Hussey, Mahela Jayawardene and Ryan McLaren, the others nominated for the Twenty20 award.

 

                     

 

Netherlands allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate won the Associate Player of the Year award. ten Doeschate’s performances during the English domestic season has made him a sought after player in international Twenty20 competitions. He has been signed by Tasmania for the Big Bash and by Canterbury for New Zealand’s domestic tournament.

 

Steven Finn, the England fast bowler, won the award for Emerging Player of the Year. Finn, 21, made his Test debut against Bangladesh in March and has since taken 32 wickets in eight matches.

 

New Zealand won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award, while Aleem Dar, the Pakistani umpire, has won the Umpire of the Year Award for the second time in a row.

 

Rachel Heyhoe-Flint, the former England women’s captain, was the first woman cricketer inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame. Shelley Nitschke, the Australian allrounder, was the Woman Cricketer of the Year.