The 2009 ICC Awards were held on 1 October 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa before the semi-finals of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Nominations were announced in Mumbai in early September while short lists were announced on 15 September. These awards were given on the performance of the players between 13 August 2008 and 24 August 2009 and were presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). Performances from both players and officials were taken into account during this period of time for the game.
The ICC had been hosting ICC Awards since 2004, which were now into their sixth year. Previous events were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006) and Dubai (2008), with Johannesburg also hosting in 2007. The ICC awards the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy to the Cricketer of the Year, which is considered to be the most prestigious award in world cricket.
Sponsors
As the logo of these awards suggests, LG, one of the world's leading electronic brands, sponsored these awards along with other ICC sponsors.[1]
Selection Committee
Chaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Clive Lloyd, the ICC Selection Committee was charged with two main tasks. Using their experience, knowledge and appreciation of the game, they selected the ICC World XI Teams and provided a long list of nominations to the 25 members of the voting academy to cast their votes in the individual player award categories.
Selection Committee members:[2]
Award categories and winners
Cricketer of the Year
Test Player of the Year
ODI Player of the Year
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
Tillakaratne Dilshan, for scoring 96 not out off 57 deliveries against the West Indies in the semi-final of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 at The Oval on 19 June 2009
Emerging Player of the Year
Associate Player of the Year
Umpire of the Year
Women's Cricketer of the Year
Spirit of Cricket
ICC World XI Teams
ICC Test Team of the Year
MS Dhoni was selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the Test Team of the Year. Other players are:[5]
Gautam Gambhir
Andrew Strauss
AB de Villiers- Sachin Tendulkar
- Thilan Samaraweera
Michael Clarke- MS Dhoni
Shakib Al Hasan- Mitchell Johnson
- Stuart Broad
- Dale Steyn
- Harbhajan Singh (12th man)
ICC ODI Team of the Year
MS Dhoni was also selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the ODI Team of the Year. Other players are:[6]
- Virender Sehwag
Chris Gayle- Kevin Pietersen
- Tillakaratne Dilshan
- Yuvraj Singh
Martin Guptill- MS Dhoni
- Andrew Flintoff
- Nuwan Kulasekara
- Ajantha Mendis
Umar Gul- Thilan Thushara (12th man)
Short lists
The short lists for the 2009 ICC Awards were announced by the ICC on 15 September 2009 directly from Dubai.[7] They are the following:
Cricketer of the Year
Test Player of the Year
ODI Player of the Year
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
Emerging Player of the Year
Associate Player of the Year
Umpire of the Year
Women's Cricketer of the Year
Spirit of Cricket
Nominations
The following are the nominations for the 2009 ICC Awards in different categories. They were announced by Virender Sehwag and Ravi Shastri in the presence of ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat.[8]
Cricketer of the Year
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- Tillakaratne Dilshan
- MS Dhoni
- Gautam Gambhir
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Mitchell Johnson
- Graham Onions
- Thilan Samaraweera
- Kumar Sangakkara
- Harbhajan Singh
- Andrew Strauss
- Daniel Vettori
- AB de Villiers
Test Player of the Year
- Stuart Broad
- Michael Clarke
- MS Dhoni
- Tillakaratne Dilshan
- Gautam Gambhir
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Mitchell Johnson
- V.V.S. Laxman
- Jesse Ryder
- Thilan Samaraweera
- Ramnaresh Sarwan
- Peter Siddle
- Harbhajan Singh
- Graeme Smith
- Dale Steyn
- Andrew Strauss
- Graeme Swann
- Daniel Vettori
- AB de Villiers
ODI Player of the Year
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- MS Dhoni
- Andrew Flintoff
- Chris Gayle
- Umar Gul
- Martin Guptill
- Michael Hussey
- Nuwan Kulasekara
- Ajantha Mendis
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Yuvraj Singh
- Virender Sehwag
- Thilan Thushara
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
- Shahid Afridi
- Saeed Ajmal
- Dwayne Bravo
Alex Cusack- Tillakaratne Dilshan
- Chris Gayle
- Umar Gul
- David Hussey
- Sanath Jayasuriya
- Zaheer Khan
- Ajantha Mendis
- Wayne Parnell
- Abdur Razzak
- David Warner
Emerging Player of the Year
- Martin Guptill
- Ben Hilfenhaus
- Phillip Hughes
- Amit Mishra
- Graham Onions
- Kemar Roach
- Jesse Ryder
- Peter Siddle
Associate Player of the Year
Rizwan Cheema- Khurram Chohan
- Alex Cusack
Ryan ten Doeschate- Trent Johnston
Neil McCallum- Kevin O'Brien
- Niall O'Brien
- William Porterfield
- Boyd Rankin
- Edgar Schiferli
Steve Tikolo- Regan West
- Bas Zuiderent
Umpire of the Year
Women's Cricketer of the Year
- Suzie Bates
- Holly Colvin
- Charlotte Edwards
- Laura Marsh
- Sana Mir
- Shelley Nitschke
- Mithali Raj
- Karen Rolton
- Priyanka Roy
- Lisa Sthalekar
- Claire Taylor
- Sarah Taylor
- Stafanie Taylor
- Haidee Tiffen
- Aimee Watkins
See also
- International Cricket Council
- ICC Awards
- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (Cricketer of the Year)
- ICC Test Player of the Year
- ICC ODI Player of the Year
- David Shepherd Trophy (Umpire of the Year)
- ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year
- ICC Test Team of the Year
- ICC ODI Team of the Year
References
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- ^ "Selection Panel of the awards". Voxy.co.nz. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ "Mitchell Johnson 'blown away' to be named ICC Cricketer of the Year". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ "Gambhir lands Test award". Sky Sports. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ "Dhoni leads Test Team of Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Dhoni leads World ODI Team of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "LG ICC Awards 2009 shortlists – NDTV Sports". NDTVSports.com. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
- ^ "LG ICC Awards 2009". Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.