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ICC Awards

four_or_six

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
Jono said:
I thought the exact thing when I saw AB had beaten Sachin actually.

Looked over his year though, and it's pretty damn good. He actually scored three centuries on the trot, and four in six innings.

de Villiers displaces Dhoni as No. 1 ODI batsman

Figured Sachin's 200* would put him over the line, but not to be.
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Fair enough. I really like AB, so so cool.

I thought Watto's centuries in the CT semi and final or Sachin's 200* would do it, because they were more stand-out. But fair enough to give it to AB by the looks of it.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
GIMH if you're reading it from my post, I just updated it with the XI.

ICC Test Team of the Year 1 Virender Sehwag (Ind), 2 Simon Katich (Aus), 3 Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), 4 Hashim Amla (SA), 5 Kumar Sangakkara (SL), 6 Jacques Kallis (SA), 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind, capt & wk), 8 Graeme Swann (Eng), 9 James Anderson (Eng), 10 Dale Steyn (SA), 11 Doug Bollinger (Aus).
 
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Magrat Garlick

Magrat Garlick

Rather Mad Witch
Jono said:
Test team: Dhoni, Sehwag, Kumar Sangakkara, Graeme Swann, Tendulkar, Hashim Amla, Simon Katich, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, James Anderson and Doug Bollinger
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Swann batting ahead of Sachin, naturally. Good to see the natural order of things restored.
 
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Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Knew someone would take advantage of my copy/paste job from Cricinfo's text article, and not the final XI it wrote at the end of the page (after a while)! :p
 
Faisal1985

Faisal1985

International Vice-Captain
Well deserved awards i guess.

Amir was so going to win had he not totally **** up his career.

Good to see 1 coming our way...Dar!
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Whilst I think Sachin is worthy, Scaly does probably have a point.

Cricketer of the year awards since the award began in 2004:

2004: Dravid
2005: Kallis and Flintoff
2006: Ponting
2007: Ponting
2008: Shiv
2009: Mitch
2010: Tendulkar

Mitch the only out and out bowler who ever won it. Obviously Freddy and Kallis were allrounders though.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Nah he's referring to Swann or another bowler not winning it I guess.

He's suggesting batsmen always win these awards.
 
kingpin

kingpin

State Vice-Captain
Even on roads opposition have to score...And to lose tosses every time.... And doing Well in 2nd innings......Sehwag deserved it.....
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I have no problem with ODIs and batsmen usually getting it because that is a batsman's game.

With regards to Tests and the overall award.

The problem is giving an award to an Indian batsmen when virtually all of them, including the horribly past his best Dravid, all averaged something stupid during that period. The point is to give the award to someone who was truly exceptional. Swann was by miles the best spinner around and averaged around 25 with the bat and was good in the field. I have less of a problem with Sehwag because he at scored his runs at an incredibly rate to help force wins. I'm just sick of the bias in awards towards people who pile on the runs on dead wickets. That is not proper Test cricket. It's meant to be a test and an examination.
 
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