ICC Test team of the Year

[NasserFan207]

Being a legspinner helps Bishoo, haven't had a promising one for yonks it seems.

 

[ankitj]

ICC Awards 2011: MS Dhoni wins Spirit of Cricket award | Cricket News | Cricinfo ICC Site | ESPN Cricinfo

Is it the first time this award is being given? Didn't they give a spirit award to a team earlier?

 

[weeman27bob]

Yep. Would be marginally interested to see some stats on awards/Man of the Match given to batsmen and bowlers. I know from during the IPL the Man of the Match award heavily favoured the batsmen.

In tests over the period considered, this were the winners of Man of the Match

Amir (3rd Eng vs Pak)
Broad (4th Eng vs Pak [Batting], 2nd vs India [All round] )
Cook (1st Aus vs Eng, 5th Aus vs Eng)
Pietersen (2nd Aus vs Eng, 1st Eng vs India)
Johnson (3rd Aus vs Eng [Bowling] )
Trott (4th Aus vs Eng, 1st Eng vs SL)
Dilshan (2nd Eng vs SL)
Tremlett( 3rd Eng Vs SL)
Kahn (1st India vs Aus)
Tendulkar (2nd India vs Aus)
Harbahajan Singh (1st India vs NZ, [Batting] )
McCullum (2nd India vs NZ)
Dravid (3rd India vs NZ, 1st WI vs India)
Kallis (1st SA vs India, 2nd SA vs India)
Sharma (2nd WI vs India)
Chanderpaul (3rd Wi vs India)
Younis Khan (1st Pak vs SA)
de Villiers (2nd Pak vs SA)
Abdur Rehman (1st NZ vs Pak)
Misbah-ul-Haq (2nd NZ vs Pak)
Sammy (1st WI vs Pak)
Taufeeq (Umar 2nd WI vs Pak)
Gayle (1st SL vs WI)
Sangakkara (2nd SL vs WI)

For the sake of ease, and because it evens the numbers up slightly, I'm going to count Broad's performance in the second test as being both for Batting and for Bowling, because this then cancels out the no award in a rained of SL vs WI test.

So that's 23 awards for Batsmen and 7 for bowlers.

 

[weldone]

I'd have:

Cook, Watson, Trott, Tendulkar, Kallis, Bell, Prior, Swann, Zaheer, Steyn, Anderson

Agreed.

 

[Jacknife]

In tests over the period considered, this were the winners of Man of the Match

Amir (3rd Eng vs Pak)
Broad (4th Eng vs Pak [Batting], 2nd vs India [All round] )
Cook (1st Aus vs Eng, 5th Aus vs Eng)
Pietersen (2nd Aus vs Eng, 1st Eng vs India)
Johnson (3rd Aus vs Eng [Bowling] )
Trott (4th Aus vs Eng, 1st Eng vs SL)
Dilshan (2nd Eng vs SL)
Tremlett( 3rd Eng Vs SL)
Kahn (1st India vs Aus)
Tendulkar (2nd India vs Aus)
Harbahajan Singh (1st India vs NZ, [Batting] )
McCullum (2nd India vs NZ)
Dravid (3rd India vs NZ, 1st WI vs India)
Kallis (1st SA vs India, 2nd SA vs India)
Sharma (2nd WI vs India)
Chanderpaul (3rd Wi vs India)
Younis Khan (1st Pak vs SA)
de Villiers (2nd Pak vs SA)
Abdur Rehman (1st NZ vs Pak)
Misbah-ul-Haq (2nd NZ vs Pak)
Sammy (1st WI vs Pak)
Taufeeq (Umar 2nd WI vs Pak)
Gayle (1st SL vs WI)
Sangakkara (2nd SL vs WI)

For the sake of ease, and because it evens the numbers up slightly, I'm going to count Broad's performance in the second test as being both for Batting and for Bowling, because this then cancels out the no award in a rained of SL vs WI test.

So that's 23 awards for Batsmen and 7 for bowlers.

And they say bowlers win matches.

 

[NasserFan207]

And they say bowlers win matches.

If you take into account most teams have 7 batsman and 4 main bowlers, it makes sense.

 

[weeman27bob]

And they say bowlers win matches.

I think "bowlers" is the key there, specifically when it comes to deciding man of the match awards. In lots of the games, two or three bowlers were picking up three wickets each innings. By contrast there didn't tend to be that many games where two batsmen scored centuries in the same innings.

What I'm trying to get at, is that perhaps bowling is more of a team game than batting is?

 

[Cabinet96]

Looking at the recent ICC awards you can see batsmen have easily dominated.

2009 cricketer of the year: Johnson (for all round performances)
2009 test cricketer of the year: Gambhir
2009 ODI cricketer of the year: Donhi

2010 cricketer of the year: Tendulkar
2010 test cricketer of the year: Sehwag
2010 ODI cricketer of the year: de Villiers

2011 cricketer of the year: Trott
2011 test cricketer of the year: Cook
2011 ODI cricketer of the year: Sangakarra

Last genuine bowling performance I can remember was Steyn winning test cricketer of the year in 2008. I reckon he should have won it in 2010 as well.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I think "bowlers" is the key there, specifically when it comes to deciding man of the match awards. In lots of the games, two or three bowlers were picking up three wickets each innings. By contrast there didn't tend to be that many games where two batsmen scored centuries in the same innings.

What I'm trying to get at, is that perhaps bowling is more of a team game than batting is?

Depends on the bowler or pitch, but in a given match somebody is nearly always going to take in excess of 25% of the wickets available and fairly often there's a 5-fer which represents half the wickets in an innings. It's pretty unusual for a batsman to score the same percentage of runs.

 

[ankitj]

Historically, bowlers have led the way when it comes to MoM awards in tests:

Records | Test matches | Individual records (captains, players, umpires) | Most player-of-the-match awards | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[ankitj]

A table geeks might be interested in:

[B]Player			Span		Mat	Awards	Match per Award[/B]
Wasim Akram 		1985-2002	104	17	6.1
JH Kallis 		1995-2011	145	22	6.6
M Muralitharan 		1992-2010	133	19	7
CEL Ambrose 		1988-2000	98	14	7
GP Swann 		2008-2011	36	5	7.2
Imran Khan 		1971-1992	88	11	8
MD Marshall 		1978-1991	81	10	8.1
KC Sangakkara 		2000-2011	99	12	8.3
PA de Silva 		1984-2002	93	11	8.5
IT Botham 		1977-1992	102	12	8.5
SK Warne 		1992-2007	145	17	8.5
DM Jones 		1984-1992	52	6	8.7
AA Donald 		1992-2002	72	8	9
GC Smith 		2002-2011	91	10	9.1
GF Lawson 		1980-1989	46	5	9.2
DW Steyn 		2004-2011	46	5	9.2
Sir RJ Hadlee 		1973-1990	86	9	9.6
RT Ponting 		1995-2011	153	16	9.6
J Srinath 		1991-2002	67	7	9.6
SM Pollock 		1995-2008	108	11	9.8
MEK Hussey 		2005-2011	61	6	10.2
ML Hayden 		1994-2009	103	10	10.3
CL Cairns 		1989-2004	62	6	10.3
Mushtaq Ahmed 		1990-2003	52	5	10.4
DL Vettori 		1997-2011	105	10	10.5
BC Lara 		1990-2006	131	12	10.9
V Sehwag 		2001-2011	89	8	11.1
KP Pietersen 		2005-2011	78	7	11.1
GD McGrath 		1993-2007	124	11	11.3
CH Gayle 		2000-2010	91	8	11.4
DJ Cullinan 		1993-2001	70	6	11.7
JG Wright 		1978-1993	82	7	11.7
SR Waugh 		1985-2004	168	14	12
DPMD Jayawardene 	1997-2011	121	10	12.1
IVA Richards 		1974-1991	121	10	12.1
MJ Slater 		1993-2001	74	6	12.3
GS Chappell 		1970-1984	87	7	12.4
SJ Harmison 		2002-2009	63	5	12.6
G Kirsten 		1993-2004	101	8	12.6
Mohammad Yousuf 	1998-2010	90	7	12.9
SR Tendulkar 		1989-2011	181	14	12.9
GA Gooch 		1975-1995	118	9	13.1
JL Langer 		1993-2007	105	8	13.1
A Flintoff 		1998-2009	79	6	13.2
A Kumble 		1990-2008	132	10	13.2
S Chanderpaul 		1994-2011	133	10	13.3
Inzamam-ul-Haq 		1992-2007	120	9	13.3
RJ Shastri 		1981-1992	80	6	13.3
Abdul Qadir 		1977-1990	67	5	13.4
GW Flower 		1992-2004	67	5	13.4
Younis Khan 		2000-2011	68	5	13.6
AC Gilchrist 		1999-2008	96	7	13.7
KJ Hughes 		1977-1984	70	5	14
AR Border 		1978-1994	156	11	14.2
CJ McDermott 		1984-1996	71	5	14.2
R Dravid 		1996-2011	157	11	14.3
GP Thorpe 		1993-2005	100	7	14.3
Waqar Younis 		1989-2003	87	6	14.5
MA Taylor 		1989-1999	104	7	14.9
HH Gibbs 		1996-2008	90	6	15
Z Khan 			2000-2011	79	5	15.8
SP Fleming 		1994-2008	111	7	15.9
Harbhajan Singh 	1998-2011	98	6	16.3
N Kapil Dev 		1978-1994	131	8	16.4
MP Vaughan 		1999-2008	82	5	16.4
MA Atherton 		1989-2001	115	7	16.4
M Ntini 		1998-2009	101	6	16.8
CL Hooper 		1987-2002	102	6	17
CG Greenidge 		1974-1991	108	6	18
WPUJC Vaas 		1994-2009	111	6	18.5
A Ranatunga 		1982-2000	93	5	18.6
SC Ganguly 		1996-2008	113	6	18.8
AJ Stewart 		1990-2003	133	7	19
M Azharuddin 		1984-2000	99	5	19.8
Saleem Malik 		1982-1999	103	5	20.6
CH Lloyd 		1966-1985	110	5	22
DL Haynes 		1978-1994	116	5	23.2
DI Gower 		1978-1992	117	5	23.4
Javed Miandad 		1976-1993	124	5	24.8
SM Gavaskar 		1971-1987	125	5	25
VVS Laxman 		1996-2011	127	5	25.4
ME Waugh 		1991-2002	128	5	25.6

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Expected to see Dale Steyn higher than that. Seeing Aravinda up there as a top-notch match-winner gladdens my heart.

Akram and Kallis are insane freaks. So important to their teams!

 

[weeman27bob]

Depends on the bowler or pitch, but in a given match somebody is nearly always going to take in excess of 25% of the wickets available and fairly often there's a 5-fer which represents half the wickets in an innings. It's pretty unusual for a batsman to score the same percentage of runs.

I think part of that's due to the nature of the numbers though. 25% of 100 is a lot more than 25% of 10.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. There's a point in it somewhere, but I can't quite dig it out.

 

[weeman27bob]

There's an interesting mix of consistent players and those who were outstanding some days and awful other days.

 

[Cabinet96]

Lol I love reading the comments on Cricinfo

If this was for the performance of teams in 2010, then Indian team should have better represented in the awards! They excelled in both forms of cricket and were #1 team until the recent tour of England. If the selection was done prior to this tour, then how come only Dhoni get the spirit award??? This has been fixed, but England enthusiast selection committee! Good that Indian Players boycotted the event, it deserves the treatment. In fact, it should be renamed as English Awards instead of International awards, in the future!!!!!

Hilarious. Everyone nows that the ICC kiss the BCCI's ass in these awards yet there still complaining. Get a clue dude.

 

[weeman27bob]

No surprise they couldn't make it to the ICC awards - half the team got injured whilst attending the IPL awards, whilst the rest of them simply can't cope with the pace of an award ceremony in England.

Most Cricinfo comments are dire. This one was not.

 

[MW1304]

Did anyone see the awards show for this? There was a hilarious bit where Trott claimed he was "determinated" to do something, which made the guys at England's table absolutely crack up. Gabby Logan even called him up on it - embarrassing as hell but funny.

 

[OMM!]

I watched the last 10 minutes or so. The Trott bit was funny. Was obviously nervous.

As for Ravi Shastri's presenting! It was more wooden than a wooden doll of Woody from Toy Story! Has this man no personality or charisma?!

 

[Jacknife]

It's going to be Trott's new nick name apparently, 'The De-terminator'.

 

[smash84]

I watched the last 10 minutes or so. The Trott bit was funny. Was obviously nervous.

As for Ravi Shastri's presenting! It was more wooden than a wooden doll of Woody from Toy Story! Has this man no personality or charisma?!

I thought they would keep him away from such things after his "they are jealous comments"