Tendulkar, Dravid, Zaheer nominated for ICC awards

Dubai, Aug 11(ANI): Indian stars Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid as well as Zaheer Khan have been nominated for a prestigious ICC ‘Cricketer of a Year’ (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) as well as ‘Test Player of a Year’ awards, which will be presented in London upon Sep 12.

Tendulkar as well as Dravid have formerly won a Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.

Tendulkar won it in 2010, whilst Dravid won it during a initial awards in 2004.

Zaheer has additionally been nominated for a ‘ODI Player of a Year’ endowment along with M.S. Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir Virat Kohli, Munaf Patel, Virender Sehwag as well as Yuvraj Singh.

This year’s ICC Awards includes 10 particular prizes as well as additionally facilities a preference of a Test as well as ODI Teams of a Year as well as a endowment to a side which has adhered many to a Spirit of Cricket.

For a second time, this year’s awards underline a category, a People’s Choice Award.

This endowment will be comparison by cricket fans around a world, who will get a possibility to opinion for their prime player online from a short-list of 5 cricketers.

Those 5 cricketers – Jonathan Trott, M.S. Dhoni, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara as well as Hashim Amla – who were comparison by a ICC preference row as well as expelled to a open for choosing by casting votes progressing this month.

Cricket fans right away have a eventuality to opinion for a cricketer of their preference online until Aug twenty-five during www.lgpeopleschoice.com.

‘The LG ICC Awards presents a smashing eventuality for a ICC, in organisation with FICA as well as a innumerable of cricket fans, to admit as well as prerogative a shining performances of a world’s most appropriate cricketers,” pronounced ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat.

“It is additionally a possibility to demeanour behind upon a little of a good cricketing feats witnessed in a past year, together with from a flagship event, a ICC Cricket World Cup. This will be a eighth Awards book as well as once again a choosing by casting votes academy will face a difficult charge in determining a winners,” he added.

The long-lists of nominations were done by a five-man ICC preference row chaired by former West Indies captain as well as stream authority of a ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd.

The row additionally includes former general players Mike Gatting of England, Danny Morrison of New Zealand, Paul Adams of South Africa as well as Pakistan’s Zaheer Abbas.

The particular player awards will be comparison by an academy of twenty-five rarely credentialed cricket personalities from around a world.

The academy includes a horde of former players as well as reputable members of a media, member of a Emirates Elite Panels of ICC Umpires as well as ICC Match Referees.

The ICC Awards rite is right away in a eighth year as well as this year it will be hold in London, England. Previous ceremonies were hold in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007 as well as 2009), Dubai (2008) as well as Bengaluru (2010).

ICC endowment nominees:

Cricketer of a Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy):

Hashim Amla (RSA), James Anderson (ENG), Ian Bell (ENG), Stuart Broad (ENG), Alastair Cook (ENG), Rahul Dravid (IND), Jacques Kallis (RSA), Zaheer Khan (IND), Misbah-ul-Haq (PAK), Kumar Sangakkara (SRI), Andrew Strauss (ENG), Graeme Swann (ENG), Sachin Tendulkar (IND), Chris Tremlett (ENG), Jonathan Trott (ENG), AB de Villiers (RSA), Shane Watson (AUS)

Test Player of a Year:

Hashim Amla (RSA), James Anderson (ENG), Ian Bell (ENG), Stuart Broad (ENG), Alastair Cook (ENG), Rahul Dravid (IND), Jacques Kallis (RSA), Zaheer Khan (IND), Misbah-ul-Haq (PAK), Kevin Pietersen (ENG), Ishant Sharma (IND), Harbhajan Singh (IND), Dale Steyn (RSA), Graeme Swann (ENG), Sachin Tendulkar (IND), Chris Tremlett (ENG), Jonathan Trott (ENG), AB de Villiers (RSA), Shane Watson (AUS)

ODI Player of a Year:

Hashim Amla (RSA), Michael Clarke (AUS), M.S. Dhoni (IND), Gautam Gambhir (IND), Mohammed Hafeez (PAK), Mahela Jayawardene (SRI), Zaheer Khan (IND), Virat Kohli (IND), Lasith Malinga (SRI), Munaf Patel (IND), Saeed Ajmal (PAK), Shakib Al Hasan (BAN), Kumar Sangakkara (SRI), Virender Sehwag (IND), Yuvraj Singh (IND), Tim Southee (NZL), Dale Steyn (RSA), Graeme Swann (ENG), Jonathan Trott (ENG), AB de Villiers (RSA), Shane Watson (AUS). (ANI)

Tendulkar, Dravid, Zaheer nominated for ICC awards