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The 2011 LG ICC Awards will be held on 12 September 2011 in London in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. awards will be presented in association with Federation of International Cricketers' Associations

Federation of International Cricketers' Associations

The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations is an organisation that co-ordinates the activities of all the national players’ associations that represent professional cricketers...

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International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

has been hosting ICC Awards since 2004 and now is in its eighth year. The previous ones were held in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

(2004), Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

(2005), Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

(2006), Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

(2007, 2009

2009 ICC Awards

The LG ICC Awards were held on 1 October 2009 in Johannesburg in South Africa before the semi-finals of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Nominations were announced in Mumbai in early September while shortlist was announced on 15 September...

) , Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

(2008) and Bengaluru (2010

2010 ICC Awards

The 2010 LG ICC Awards were held on 6 October 2010 in Bengaluru in India. These awards will be presented in association with Federation of International Cricketers' Associations....

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ICC awards Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a cricket trophy awarded annually by the International Cricket Council to its chosen world player of the Year. It was first awarded in 2004 to Rahul Dravid....

to the Cricketer of the Year which is considered the most prestigious award in world cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

The Selection Panel

Selection Panel members:
Clive Lloyd

Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO is a former West Indies cricketer. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s...

(chairman) Zaheer Abbas

Zaheer Abbas

Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani , popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest batsman produced by that country. He is widely known as the "Asian Bradman", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman...

Mike Gatting

Michael "Mike" William Gatting OBE is a former English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988...

Paul Adams

Paul Adams (cricketer)

Paul Regan Adams is a former South African cricketer, a chinaman bowler who played for the national team sporadically since the 1990s. Meanwhile, his first class cricket career registered 412 wickets....

Danny Morrison

Danny Morrison (cricketer)

Daniel Kyle Morrison is a former New Zealand cricketer . He specialised as a pace bowler with a useful outswinger. He made his test debut for New Zealand in 1987 at the age of 21 against Australia....

ICC World XI Teams

Test Team of the Year

Kumar Sangakkara
Kumar Sangakkara
Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan, Sinhalese cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman...

was selected as the captain

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

and wicketkeeper of the World XI Test team. Other players are:
Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

Hashim Amla

Hashim Mahomed Amla is a South African cricketer. A right-handed upper order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler, Amla bats at number 3 for South Africa in Test matches and has opened in limited overs contests. He is currently ranked as the No...

Jonathan Trott

Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan, Sinhalese cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman...

(Captain

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

/Wicket-Keeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

) AB de Villiers Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis

Jacques Henry Kallis is a South African cricketer. As an all-rounder he is a formidable right-handed batsman and fast-medium swingbowler. He is one of the greatest all-rounders of all time, being the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 12,000 runs and 250 wickets in both...

Stuart Broad

Stuart Christopher John Broad is a cricketer who plays Test and One Day International cricket for England and is currently the captain of their Twenty20 team...

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

Dale Steyn

Dale Willem Steyn is a South African cricketer who plays in Test and One Day International cricket for South Africa. He is currently the number one ranked Test bowler in the world and achieved the 900+ points benchmark on 13th Nov 2011. Steyn plays domestic cricket in South Africa for Cape Cobras...

James Anderson

James Anderson (cricketer)

James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...

Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. A left arm fast bowler considered as the best of the Indian fast bowling attack, Zaheer is known for his ability to swing the ball both ways, and as a batsman also holds the record for the highest Test...

12th man

ODI Team of the Year

Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...

was selected as the captain

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

and wicketkeeper of the World XI ODI team for the fourth time consecutively.
Tillakaratne Dilshan

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan born October 14, 1976 in Kalutara, Sri Lanka is a Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team since April 2011. He has been a member of the team since November 1999, and was also known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan prior to his conversion...

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan, Sinhalese cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman...

AB de Villiers Shane Watson

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....

Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh Bhandal is an Indian cricketer, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...

(Captain

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

/Wicket-Keeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

) Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann

Umar Gul

Umar Gul is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team...

Dale Steyn

Zaheer Khan

Lasith Malinga

Separamadu Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a fast bowler with a rare round-arm action, sometimes referred to as a sling action, which leads to his nickname, "Slinga Malinga"...

12th man

Winners

The winners of 2011 ICC Awards were announced on 12 September 2011 in a grand ceremony in London

London

in England

England

by the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

. The following are the winners of the different awards:

Shortlist

The shortlist for LG ICC Awards were announced by International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

on 26 August 2011. They are the following:

LG People's Choice Award

Hashim Amla

MS Dhoni Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer who currently plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained the West Indies' side from 2007 to 2010. He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors and the Kolkata Knight...

Jonathan Trott

Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year

Hashim Amla

Alastair Cook

Sachin Tendulkar

Jonathan Trott
Jonathan Trott
Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...

– Winner

ICC Test Player of the Year

James Anderson

James Anderson (cricketer)

Alastair Cook
Alastair Cook
Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

– Winner Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis

Jonathan Trott

Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...

ICC ODI Player of the Year

Hashim Amla

Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir is an Indian cricketer, a batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 and 2004...

Shane Watson

ICC Emerging Player of the Year

Azhar Ali

Syed Azhar Ali Urdu: سید اظہر علی is a right-handed Pakistan-born Omani cricketer who bowls a right-arm offbreak. He played for the 2005 ICC Trophy.-References:...

Devendra Bishoo
Devendra Bishoo
Devendra Bishoo is a Guyanese and West Indian cricketer of East Indian origin. He is a leg-spinner who made his international debut playing for the West Indies cricket team in the Cricket World Cup 2011....

– Winner Darren Bravo

Darren Bravo

Darren Michael Bravo is a West Indian cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago and has appeared for the West Indies cricket team in One Day International cricket. A left-handed batsman,is slow, focused and determined...

Wahab Riaz

Wahab Riaz is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a left-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand batsman. Riaz is a former student of Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore...

ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year

Ryan ten Doeschate
Ryan ten Doeschate
Ryan Neil ten Doeschate is a South African-born cricketer who plays internationally for the Netherlands due to his Dutch ancestry. He has played cricket for Essex since 2003....

– Winner Hamid Hassan Kevin O'Brien

Kevin O'Brien (cricketer)

Kevin Joseph O'Brien is an Irish cricketer who plays for Railway Union Cricket Club and Gloucestershire. He holds the world record for the fastest century ever scored at a World Cup, coming from 50 balls against England on 2 March 2011. An all-rounder, O'Brien is an aggressive right-handed...

Paul Stirling

Paul Robert Stirling is an Irish cricketer. He debuted in first-class cricket in March 2008, playing for Ireland in the Intercontinental Cup. The same year Stirling made his debut in One Day Internationals . Having represented Middlesex's youth sides and Second XI, Stirling signed a contract...

ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year

Tim Bresnan

Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...

: 3.4–0–10–3 v Pakistan, Cardiff, 7 September 2010 JP Duminy: 96 not out (54b, 10x4, 4x6) v Zimbabwe, Kimberley, 10 October 2010 Tim Southee (Winner): 4–1–18–5 v Pakistan, Auckland, 26 December 2010 Shane Watson

Shane Watson

: 59 (31b, 6x4, 3x6) v England, Adelaide, 12 January 2011

ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year

Charlotte Edwards

Charlotte Marie Edwards MBE is an English cricketer and current captain of the England women's team....

Lydia Greenway

Lydia Sophie Greenway is an English cricketer . She is a left-handed batsman and an occasional off spin bowler. She has appeared for England in seven Tests and 32 ODI's. In the first Test against South Africa in August 2003 she put on a world record 203 for the fourth wicket with Claire Taylor...

Shelley Nitschke

Shelley Nitschke is a female cricketer who plays for South Australia and Australia. A left-handed batsman and left arm orthodox spinner, she is one of the leading all-rounders in the world....

Stafanie Taylor
Stafanie Taylor
Stafanie Roxann Taylor is an international cricketer. She was a part of the West Indies women's team which finished 5th in the 2009 World Cup in Australia. She made her debut at the age of 17 and scored 90 off 49 balls in West Indies' 75-run win over Ireland in her first Twenty/20 game...

– Winner

David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year

Aleem Dar
Aleem Dar
Aleem Sarwar Dar is a retired Pakistani first-class cricketer and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won three consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards 2009, 2010 and 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar and Simon Taufel are the only umpires to have received the...

– Winner Steve Davis

Steve Davis

Steve Davis, OBE is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Championships during the 1980s, when he was the world number one for seven years and became the sport's first millionaire...

Ian Gould

Ian James Gould is an ICC Elite Panel cricket umpire and a former English cricketer. He is also chairman of English football club Burnham FC.-Player:...

Simon Taufel

Simon James Arthur Taufel, , is an Australian cricket umpire who is a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel...

ICC Spirit of Cricket

MS Dhoni (Winner) – for his recall of Ian Bell during the second Test match between England and India at Trent Bridge, July/August 2011 Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis

– for twice during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 walking after clarifying with the opposition fielder if they had caught the ball cleanly

External Links

Official ICC Awards Web Site

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