The game governing body has announced the short listed players for LG ICC Awards 2011.
Pakistan’s Aleem Dar is short-listed for Umpire of the year. Asad Rauf missed out. Two Pakistanis Azhar Ali and Wahab Riaz are selected in category of Emerging Players in ICC’s short listed players for Annual Awards.
Short-lists of nominees (in alphabetical order)
Individual Awards
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year
- Hashim Amla (SA)
- Alastair Cook (Eng)
- Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
- Jonathan Trott (Eng)
ICC Test Player of the Year
- James Anderson (Eng)
- Alastair Cook (Eng)
- Jacques Kallis (SA)
- Jonathan Trott (Eng)
ICC ODI Player of the Year
- Hashim Amla (SA)
- Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Shane Watson (Aus)
ICC Emerging Player of the Year
- Azhar Ali (Pak)
- Devendra Bishoo (WI)
- Darren Bravo (WI)
- Wahab Riaz (Pak)
ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year
- Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned)
- Hamid Hassan (Afg)
- Kevin O’Brien (Ire)
- Paul Stirling (Ire)
ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year
- Tim Bresnan (Eng) – 3-10-3-4 v Pakistan, Cardiff, 7 September 2010
- JP Duminy (SA) – 96 not out (54b, 10×4, 4×6) v Zimbabwe, Kimberley, 10 October 2010
- Tim Southee (NZ) – 4-1-18-5 v Pakistan, Auckland, 26 December 2010
- Shane Watson (Aus) – 59 (31b, 6×4, 3×6) v England, Adelaide, 12 January 2011
ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year
- Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
- Lydia Greenway (Eng)
- Shelley Nitschke (Aus)
- Stafanie Taylor (WI)
David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year
- Aleem Dar
- Steve Davis
- Ian Gould
- Simon Taufel
ICC Spirit of Cricket
- MS Dhoni (Ind) – for his recall of Ian Bell during the second Test match between England and India at Trent Bridge, July/August 2011
- Jacques Kallis (SA) – for twice during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 walking after clarifying with the opposition fielder if they had caught the ball cleanly
LG People’s Choice Award
- Hashim Amla (SA)
- MS Dhoni (Ind)
- Chris Gayle (WI)
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
- Jonathan Trott (Eng)