India’s one-day captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has won the ODI Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai. Dhoni beat off tough competition from his India team-mate, Sachin Tendulkar, Australia’s fast bowler Nathan Bracken and Pakistan stalwart, Mohammad Yousuf, to take the award. During the voting period, Dhoni played 39 ODIs [...]
Indian batsman, Yuvraj Singh, became the inaugural winner of the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year Award, in recognition of his amazing six sixes in one over during last September’s ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. This new award highlights the most impressive performances by players in Twenty20 Internationals during the 12-month voting period and [...]
India’s captain for shorter version of the game Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar are in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) One-Day International World side captained by Australian Ricky Ponting for the second year running. The team was announced on Wednesday at the ICC awards in Dubai. The ODI team for 2008 (in batting order): [...]