Virat Kohli nominated for ICC Cricketer of the Year
India Cricketer Virat Kohli has been rewarded with two nominations in the ICC Awards 2012 which includes ICC Cricketer of the Year and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year Awards.
Virat Kohli is the only Indian cricketer to have two nominations, whereas other Indians to be nominated under various categories are MS Dhoni (captain), Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar.
While MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir are nominated along with Kohli for the ODI Cricketer of the Year Award, Sachin Tendulkar has been nominated for the People’s Choice Award, an honour he had won in 2010. This award will be chosen by cricket fans around the world who will get a chance to vote for their favourite player online from a short-list of five cricketers.
Five cricketers – Kumar Sangakkara, Sachin Tendulkar, Vernon Philander, Jacques Kallis and James Anderson – were selected by the ICC selection panel and released to the public for voting earlier this month. They were chosen on the basis of some innovative parameters, such as innovation, dynamism, strength in decision-making, performing well under pressure and executing a plan to distinction.
ICC Cricketer of The Year Award: Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Hashim Amla (SA), Stuart Broad (Eng), Michael Clarke (Aus), Alastair Cook (Eng), Vernon Philander (SA), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Stafanie Taylor (WI).
ODI Cricketer of the Year Award: Shahid Afridi (Pak), Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Michael Clarke (Aus), Alastair Cook (Eng), MS Dhoni (Ind), Steven Finn (Eng), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Shakib Al Hasan (Bang), Virat Kohli (Ind), Lasith Malinga (SL), Brendon McCullum (NZ), Morne Morkel (SA), Sunil Narine (WI), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Brendan Taylor (Zim), Shane Watson (Aus).
The Indian cricketer has made it to the nomination for Test Cricketer of The Year Award, courtesy their dismal show in England and Australia. Back to back 0-4 series defeats meant, India was out of contention for any Test honour this year.
Test Cricketer of The Year Award: Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Hashim Amla (SA), Stuart Broad (Eng), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Michael Clarke (Aus), Alastair Cook (Eng), Jacques Kallis (SA), Vernon Philander (SA), Matt Prior (Eng), Marlon Samuels (WI), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Dale Steyn (SA), AB de Villiers (SA).
This year ICC Awards includes 11 individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year.
This year’s five nominees for the Spirit of Cricket Award are nominated due to: “An action, moment, gesture or decision on the field of play of International cricket during the specified voting period which best reflects the Spirit of Cricket”. The nominees include South Africa’s Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers, Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez, West Indies’ Kieron Pollard and New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori.
The David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year is voted on by the captains and the match referees based on the umpires’ performance statistics. There is also an ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year award again this year. To qualify for that award a player must be under the age of 26 and have played fewer than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs and five T20Is at the start of the voting period.
The ICC Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year award serves to recognise and reward the efforts in all international matches of the outstanding cricketers from the teams outside the ICC Full Members. This year, Ireland boasts the most number of nominees once again, this time with six names on the list, while Netherlands, Afghanistan, UAE and Canada have one each.
Based on the period between 4 August 2011 and 6 August 2012, the LG ICC Awards 2012 will take into account performances by players and officials in a remarkable period for the game.
That period includes such high-profile events as the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2012 held in the UAE, the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier in Bangladesh in 2011, various rounds of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, as well as numerous Pepsi ICC World Cricket League and Championship fixtures, plus several bilateral Test and ODI series.
The ICC Awards ceremony is now in its ninth year and this year it will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004 and 2011), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007 and 2009), Dubai (2008) and Bengaluru (2010).
LG ICC Awards 2012
ICC Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Male or Female
- Saeed Ajmal (Pak)
- Hashim Amla (SA)
- Stuart Broad (Eng)
- Michael Clarke (Aus)
- Alastair Cook (Eng)
- Virat Kohli (Ind)
- Vernon Philander (SA)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Stafanie Taylor (WI)
ICC Test Cricketer of the Year
- Saeed Ajmal (Pak)
- Hashim Amla (SA)
- Stuart Broad (Eng)
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
- Michael Clarke (Aus)
- Alastair Cook (Eng)
- Jacques Kallis (SA)
- Vernon Philander (SA)
- Matt Prior (Eng)
- Marlon Samuels (WI)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Dale Steyn (SA)
- AB de Villiers (SA)
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year
- Shahid Afridi (Pak)
- Saeed Ajmal (Pak)
- Michael Clarke (Aus)
- Alastair Cook (Eng)
- MS Dhoni (Ind)
- Steven Finn (Eng)
- Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
- Shakib Al Hasan (Bang)
- Virat Kohli (Ind)
- Lasith Malinga (SL)
- Brendon McCullum (NZ)
- Morne Morkel (SA)
- Sunil Narine (WI)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Brendan Taylor (Zim)
- Shane Watson (Aus)
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year
- Jess Cameron (Aus)
- Shanel Daley (WI)
- Lydia Greenaway (Eng)
- Anisa Mohammed (WI)
- Mithali Raj (Ind)
- Sarah Taylor (Eng)
- Stafanie Taylor (WI)
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year
- Jess Cameron (Aus)
- Shanel Daley (WI)
- Alyssa Healy (Aus)
- Anisa Mohammed (WI)
- Mithali Raj (Ind)
- Lisa Sthalekar (Aus)
- Sarah Taylor (Eng)
- Stafanie Taylor (WI)
ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year
- Trent Boult (NZ)
- Doug Bracewell (NZ)
- Dinesh Chandimal (SL)
- Pat Cummins (Aus)
- Nasir Hossain (Bang)
- Junaid Khan (Pak)
- Nathan Lyon (Aus)
- Tino Mawoyo (Zim)
- Sunil Narine (WI)
- James Pattinson (Aus)
- Lahiru Thirimanne (SL)
- Matthew Wade (Aus)
ICC Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year
- Shaiman Anwar (UAE)
- Peter Borren (Neth)
- George Dockrell (Ire)
- Trent Johnston (Ire)
- Ed Joyce (Ire)
- John Mooney (Ire)
- Kevin O’Brien (Ire)
- Hiran Patel (Can)
- Paul Stirling (Ire)
- Dawlat Zadran (Afg)
ICC Men’s Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
- Ravi Bopara (Eng) – 3.4-0-10-4 v West Indies, The Oval, 23 September 2011
- Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) – 104no (57b, 12×4, 5×6) v Australia, Pallekele, 6 August 2011
- Chris Gayle (WI) – 85no (52b, 7×4, 5×6) v New Zealand, Lauderhill, 30 June 2012
- Martin Guptill (NZ) – 91no (54b, 5×4, 6×6) v Zimbabwe, Auckland, 11 February 2012
- Mohammad Hafeez (Pak) – 2.2-0-10-4 v Zimbabwe, Harare, 16 September 2011
- Alex Hales (Eng) – 99 (68b, 6×4, 4×6) v West Indies, Nottingham, 24 June 2012
- Richard Levi (SA) – 117no (51b, 5×4. 13×6) v New Zealand, Auckland, 22 February 2012
- Brendon McCullum (NZ) – 81no (46b, 5×4, 6×6) v Zimbabwe, Harare, 15 October 2011
- Ajantha Mendis (SL) – 4-1-16-6 v Australia, Pallekele, 8 August 2011
- Sunil Narine (WI) – 4-0-12-4 v New Zealand, Lauderhill, 1 July 2012
- Elias Sunny (Bang) – 4-1-13-5 v Ireland, Belfast, 18 July 2012
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award
- Mohammad Hafeez (Pak)
- Jacques Kallis (SA)
- Kieron Pollard (WI)
- Daniel Vettori (NZ)
- AB de Villiers (SA)
ICC Umpire of the Year (David Shepherd Trophy)
- Billy Bowden
- Aleem Dar
- Steve Davis
- Kumar Dharmasena
- Billy Doctrove
- Marais Erasmus
- Ian Gould
- Tony Hill
- Richard Kettleborough
- Nigel Llong
- Asad Rauf
- Simon Taufel
- Rod Tucker
LG People’s Choice Award
- James Anderson (Eng)
- Jacques Kallis (SA)
- Vernon Philander (SA)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
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