2005/2006 ICC Cricket Awards

With the annual ICC cricket awards approaching i figured it a relevant topic to bring up...

We all pretty much agree that the ICC player ratings systems is dodgy in most aspects, and my question to you is, if this rating systems system is pretty much null & void, how much notice can we take of who is chosen as cricketer of the year by these jokers???

While the nominee's for each category seem fine, it strikes me as it is most likely that the player with the "most of" will be the most likely to take out the awards with little notice taken of the players actual influence in each game.

My question to you is, are the ICC awards just a feel good award for the players with no real significence, or is it an award that the winning player has every right to be pround of takng out?? (please feel free to discuss each award as well, and whom you think may take it out and why)

Just for the record, heres a list of the nominee's for each award... (my choices are bolded)

Cricketer of the Year
Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Michael Hussey, Andrew Flintoff, Mohammed Yousuf, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Younis Khan, Monty Panesar, Brett Lee, Makhaya Ntini, Adam Gilchrist.

Test Player of the Year
Hussey, Ponting, Yousuf, Flintoff, Warne, Muralitharan, Dravid, Jayawardene, Younis, Hayden, Ntini, Kumar Sangakarra, Kevin Pietersen

One-day Player of the Year
Hussey, Ponting, Flintoff, Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Dravid, Muttiah Muralitharan, Pietersen, Yousuf, Lee, Herschelle Gibbs, Shahid Afridi, Inzamam-ul Haq, Adam Gilchrist, Yuvraj Singh, Shane Bond, Irfan Pathan,

Emerging Player of the Year
Panesar, Alastair Cook, Denesh Ramdin, Malinga Bandara, Mohammed Asif, Upul Tharanga, Ian Bell, Shahriar Nafees.

Captain of the Year
Dravid, Ponting, Jayawardene, Michael Vaughan

Umpire of the Year
Simon Taufel, Aleem Dar, Rudi Koertzen.

Women's Cricketer of the Year
Karen Rolton, Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Anjum Chopra, Neetu David, Claire Taylor, Katherine Brunt, Emily Drumm

I think they go on the performance between 1 August 05 and 1 August 06 (i to have very little knowledge... thats why i made the thread... hoping we could shed a little light on them)

My choices are

Cricketer of the Year: Ponting

Test Player of the Year: Dravid

One-day Player of the Year: Hussey

Emerging Player of the Year: Panesar (Mohammed Asif has well and truely emerged and established)

Captain of the Year: Jayawardene

Umpire of the Year: Darral Hair

Edited by Wal Bada

 Wal... umpire of the year ....

any thoughts on the significance of these awards ???

I'm still a little sceptical of them myself. That being said, they do seem to be a little more realistic than their player rankings, as unlike the rankings, the award is chosen by a panel which is more than just the ICC Board.

Each of the captains of the 10 test playing nations, as well as the Elite board of umpires have their chance to give their input, so we may see a little more importance based on the players influence, and not just weight or runs/wickets

However, by that same token, each players value to their team varies in many ways, and i'm still not convinced that this will be truly realised despite the input from Umpires/Players. 

So.. until i find out how it is judged, i'm still unsure about the signifance...

 

Amazing no Dhoni ?? He was way better than Denesh Ramdin and Shahriar Nafees .He scored 183 no and 148 and also topped the ICC rankings this is biaased .What has Afridi done that he makes it to the ODI player of the year nominations ?

Edited by dips_december

Thanks for the categories clapo. Because dips and myself will be having a ICC Cricket Awards where all the forum members vote. We'll see how much accurate we are.

O thats why ,got it thanks Claps .

Originally posted by Clapo Originally posted by dips_december Amazing no Dhoni ?? He was way better than Denesh Ramdin and Shahriar Nafees .He scored 183 no and 148 and also topped the ICC rankings this is biaased .What has Afridi done that he makes it to the ODI player of the year nominations ? Dhoni really only made a bang at home dips.... the other players mentioned performed well overseas which is most likely why they were nominated and Dhoni wasn't! As for Afridi being nominated for ODI player of the year, from dec-mar afridi probably had his most consistent run of form in ODI's with quite a few match winning performances.... (correct me if i'm wrong please Pak fans)

Dono were you been reading but .. dhoni played in pakistan / Duabi / West IN. wit an avrage of 50+. and afridi never came close to that avrage in his whole life his avrage is 25.

Cricketer of the year for me will go to ponting. Why ? The bloke has been wonderful in tests and odi's and thats all I got to say.

Test player of the year - Dravid.....Why? Too good a player to be true. Massive amount of consistency in the lad and on any surface. I don't know if any of you guys saw that innings in jamaica from the lad but that was probably one of the best innings I've seen in my life. On a real tough track to bat on, he carved out 2 fifties. I don't even think the great sir Don could of done it..... Just joking .

One day player of the year - Hussey. No doubt this man is an excellent performer. I know people might say its the amount of not outs but still , the guy middle the ball and finds the gap with ease and for me he has help to win aussie an amount of matches.

Emerging player - cook. To debut in the sub and make a ton is superb and he has kept that consitency till now.

Captain - Vaughny even though he hasn't played much. One of the best tactical captain I've seen.

Umpire - Taufel. He's the only man for it. He's too good for me.

Women - I haven't even witness a game from the ladies in my life.

Dips_december and I are holding the ICC Cricket Awards. All the categories will be same and cricketers will be same too. So start sending in your favorite cricketers.

i dunno y they havnt included Dhoni,Might be a asurprise award for him.well as far as emerging player i'll go for Asif bcz he has also proved out side his country and younis and Yousef might also be highlighted.There Pair is Best Y's. There shld also be an award for best pair in cric.

I guess it is kind of a suprise to see Ramdin's name up there on that list of "Emerging Player of the Year". Somehow though...I don't mean to be pessimistic but somehow I don't think that Ramdin would win that award. I am not being negative I am just being truthful. I really don't think that he will win the award. I don't think there is any harm with him being one of the nominees though because since he may not get it the only thing that can come out of it is the building of his confidence. Because to be on that list means that you are recognized so it should help his confidence.

Ramdin is only there to make up the list I'm afraid.

Maybe they didn't want the windies to feel bad. Anyhow , ramdin played well in sri lanka and in the aussies but since then.......I can't bother to waste my time describing it......it just makes me feel bad .

Yeah, baugh deserved that spot and he played it great too coming in at the end and slogging it a long way for a short lad. Anyways, Ramdin is a good lad and I think he will make a good comeback I hope.