ICC Awards for 2008 Announced!

The ICC Awards for the year 2008 was announced recently.

Dhoni and Yuvaraj from India won an award each though there were two other nominations--Sachin and Ishanth Sharma.

Dhoni was chosen as ODI Player of the Year; Yuvaraj Singh was choses as T20 Player of the Year Sri Lankan Ajantha Mendis won the Most Promising Cricketer of the Year.

Sri Lanka won the Most Spirited Team of the Year award and the skipper Jayawardane was extremely happy that his team won this award for the second consecutive time.

Awards:

Cricketer of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul of West Indies

Test Cricketer of the Year: Dale Steyn of South Africa

ODI Player of the Year: MS Dhoni of India

T20 International Performance of the Year: Yuvaraj Singh of India

Emerging Player of the Year: Ajanth Mendis of Sri Lanka

Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel of Australia

Women's Cricketer of the Year: Charlotte Edwards of England

Spirit of Cricket: Sri Lanka

World Test Team:

Graeme Smith (SA, captain); Virender Sehwag (Ind); Mahela Jayawardena (SL); Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI); Kevin Pietersen (Eng); Jacques Kallis (SA); Kumar Sangakkara (SL, wk); Brett Lee (Aus); Ryan Sidebottom (Eng); Dale Steyn (SA); Muttiah Muralitharan (SL); 12th man: Stuart Clark (Aus)

World ODI Team:

Herschelle Gibbs (SA); Sachin Tendulkar (Ind); Ricky Ponting (Aus, captain); Yunus Khan (Pak); Andrew Symonds (Aus); Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind, wk); Farveez Maharoof (SL); Daniel Vettori (NZ); Brett Lee (Aus); Mitchell Johnson (Aus); Nathan Bracken (Aus); 12th man: Salman Butt (Pak)