Dubai, Sept.8 (ANI): Three players Shivnarine Chanderpaul of the West Indies, Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardena and South Africas Dale Steyn could get high on a bumper night-time in Dubai on Wednesday. Each is nominated in both the er of the Year and Test Player of the Year categories in the LG ICC Awards 2008, the fifth staging of the effect which was established in 2004. The other appointee for the Cricketer of the Year stakes is South Africa captain Graeme Smith while his team-mate Jacques Kallis is a further assignee in the Test category.
None of the four players shortlisted for the Cricketer of the Year Award has hitherto lifted the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy so there is decided to be a strange popularity to connect the roll-call of winners. Players who have secured the games crown individualistic observe in the years are Rahul Dravid of India (2004), Englands Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis of South Africa (joint winners in 2005) and Australia captain Ricky Ponting (back-to-back conquering hero in 2006 and 2007). Indias one-day and Twenty20 International (T20I) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is another participant with prodigality to front foremost to on Wednesday. Dhoni is also nominated for two prizes the ODI Player of the Year and the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year, the latter for his captaincy in best India to the inaugural nickname in South Africa after September. The T20I endow with is recent this year and recognises the newest regimen of the stratagem at worldwide level.
Dhoni leads his countrys instruction in this years shortlists as he is one of four India players in with a stake of alluring retirement community a winnings from s gloom of nights. Also nominated are Sachin Tendulkar (ODI Player of the Year), expeditious bowler Ishant Sharma (Emerging Player of the Year) and Yuvraj Singh (T20I Performance of the Year, to goal his six sixes against England in Durban hindmost September). Ishant faces cold contest in the Emerging Player division with Sri Lanka inscrutableness spinner Ajantha Mendis, England all-rounder Stuart Broad and Morne Morkel, the South Africa on bowler, also vying for the trophy. In the T20I Performance of the Year, Dhoni and Yuvraj are up against Chris Gayle of the West Indies and Australias Brett Lee.
Gayles 117 from 57 balls in the rent unite of the ICC WorldTwenty20 was the outset hundred in the supranational figure of Twenty20 while Lee captured a hat-trick against Bangladesh in Cape Town, another commencement for T20Is. Lee is one of three Australians nominated this year along with Nathan Bracken in the ODI Player rank and Lisa Sthalekar, who is shortlisted for the Womens Cricketer of the Year for the twinkling year in a row. Also nominated for the womens select are Claire Taylor of England (another shortlisted for the more recent consecutive year), New Zealands Nicola Browne and England captain Charlotte Edwards. Thomas Odoyo of Kenya is aiming for back-to-back name in the Associate Player of the Year category, but faces rival from team-mate Alex Obanda, Ryan ten Doeschate of the Netherlands and Niall OBrien of Ireland.
And Simon Taufel has a turn of an unprecedented five uninterrupted Umpire of the Year awards after being nominated alongside Mark Benson, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis and Rudi Koertzen. V Ramchandran, official of marketing at LG Electronics India Ltd said: The LG ICC Awards are a frolic and avowal of the best cricketing performances the period has seen over the heretofore 12 months or so. The LG identify also stands for the highest plane of portrayal and therefore LG is very magnificent to be complicated in celebrating such a outstanding occasion. (ANI).
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