ICC releases long list for annual awards

[BlazeDragon]

Zaheer Khan, AB de Villiers, Hashim Amla, Shane Watson, Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann have been nominated in each of the three top categories for the ICC's annual awards. The six players feature in the long-list of nominees for the Cricketer of the year, Test player of the year and ODI player of the year awards. In addition, there are 11 players who have been nominated in at least two categories.

The long-lists were put together by a five-man selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC cricket committee, Clive Lloyd. The other members of the panel were Mike Gatting, Danny Morrison, Paul Adams and Zaheer Abbas. The players were selected based on their performances between August 11, 2010 and August 2, 2011, a period that includes the ICC World Cup.

The winners of the individual player awards will be picked by "an academy of 25 cricket personalities" that includes a number of former players, representatives from the elite umpires panel, ICC match referees and members of the media.

This year's awards include 10 individual prizes, including the people's choice award that will be decided by cricket fans online, and three team awards: the Test and ODI teams of the year and the award to the side that has adhered most to the spirit of cricket. The awards ceremony will be held in London on September 12

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said the awards are "a chance to look back on some of the great cricketing feats witnessed in the past year, including from our flagship event, the ICC Cricket World Cup".

The nominations

Cricketer of the year: Hashim Amla, James Anderson, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Zaheer Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kumar Sangakkara, Andrew Strauss, Graeme Swann, Sachin Tendulkar, Chris Tremlett, Jonathan Trott, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson

Test player of the year: Hashim Amla, James Anderson, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Zaheer Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kevin Pietersen, Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Dale Steyn, Graeme Swann, Sachin Tendulkar, Chris Tremlett, Jonathan Trott, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson

ODI player of the year: Hashim Amla, Michael Clarke, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Mohammed Hafeez, Mahela Jayawardene, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Saeed Ajmal, Shakib Al Hasan, Kumar Sangakkara, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Tim Southee, Dale Steyn, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson

Women's cricketer of the year: Cri-zelda Britz, Jess Cameron, Sarah Coyte, Charlotte Edwards, Shandre Fritz, Jhulan Goswami, Lydia Greenway, Bismah Maroof, Laura Marsh, Sara McGlashan, Anisa Mohammed, Shelley Nitschke, Leah Poulton, Poonam Raut, Stafanie Taylor

Emerging player of the year: Adnan Akmal, Azhar Ali, Hamish Bennett, Devendra Bishoo, Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Colin Ingram, Abhinav Mukund, Wahab Riaz, Kane Williamson

Associate and Affiliate player of the year: Saqib Ali, Ashish Bagai, George Dockrell, Ryan ten Doeschate, Hamid Hassan, Nawroz Mangal, John Mooney, Kevin O'Brien, Mohammad Shahzad, Paul Stirling, Andrew White, Gary Wilson

Twenty20 international performance of the year: CJ Chibhabha 52 runs v South Africa, GC Smith 58 runs v Zimbabwe, JP Duminy 96* v Zimbabwe, SR Watson 59 v England, TT Bresnan 4 for 3 v Pakistan, TG Southee 5 for 18 v Pakistan, SA Fritz 116* v Netherlands Women

Umpire of the year: Billy Bowden, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis, Kumar Dharmasena, Billy Doctrove, Marais Erasmus, Ian Gould, Tony Hill, Richard Kettleborough, Asad Rauf, Simon Taufel, Rod Tucker

People's choice award: MS Dhoni, Kumar Sangakkara, Chris Gayle, Jonathan Trott, Hashim Amla

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[GIMH]

Cook should take out the Test award

[Son Of Coco]

Fixed

Women's cricketer of the year: Cri-zelda Britz, Jess Cameron, Sarah Coyte, Charlotte Edwards, Shandre Fritz, Jhulan Goswami, Lydia Greenway, Bismah Maroof, Laura Marsh, Sara McGlashan, Anisa Mohammed, Shelley Nitschke, Leah Poulton, Poonam Raut, Stafanie Taylor, Stuart Broad, Shane Watson

[BlazeDragon]

Simon Taufel should get the umpire award. The guy has been making so many good decisions.

[salman85]

I'd like it if one of Wahab Riaz or Azhar Ali pick up the emerging player award.Don't see it happening though.

Also,does someone mind explaining how Harbhajan is nominated for Test Player of the year?!

[Athlai]

Williamson or Bravo jr. for the emerging player award.

[weeman27bob]

Surely Prior should be knocking around the Test players list?

[BlazeDragon]

Originally Posted by salman85

Also,does someone mind explaining how Harbhajan is nominated for Test Player of the year?!

Originally Posted by weeman27bob

Surely Prior should be knocking around the Test players list?

Yeah I think Prior deserves a spot. No idea why they nominated Harbhajan there.

[flibbertyjibber]

Dhoni will win the peoples choice award whether he deserves it or not.

Cricketer and test player of the year awards for Cook.

Test team of the year will be basically the England team, Cook, Trott, Bell, KP, Prior, Anderson and Broad all easily in it i would imagine.

[8ankitj]

I personally don't like having test cricketer, ODI cricketer and then a cricketer of the year categories. I would rather have four awards - best batsman and bowler for each of the 2 formats. Putting batsmen and bowlers under same award category doesn't feel quite right.

And yeah, people's choice is big farce. An Indian cricketer is going to win it every single year. They seriously need to get rid of it, if they have learnt any lessons from ICC all time XI farce.