Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Mahela Jayawardene and Dale Steyn may well be in for a fertile rhythm in Dubai on Wednesday. Each sportswoman is nominated in both the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year categories in the LG ICC Awards 2008. The other designee for the Cricketer of the Year hold dear is Graeme Smith, while Jacques Kallis is a further selectee in the Test category.
Players who have secured the game's top distinctive praise in last years are Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff and Kallis (joint winners in 2005) and Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007). Mahendra Dhoni is another entertainer in the meet for accolades aplenty come Wednesday's pre-eminent event. Dhoni, who led India to exult at the World Twenty20 in September 2007, is nominated for two prizes - the ODI Player of the Year and the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year.
Also in with a yelp are Sachin Tendulkar (ODI Player of the Year), Ishant Sharma (Emerging Player of the Year) and Yuvraj Singh (Twenty20 International Performance of the Year). Sharma faces determined contention in the Emerging Player of the Year category, with Ajantha Mendis, Stuart Broad and Morne Morkel all in contention for the award. Twenty20 International Performance of the Year contenders Dhoni and Yuvraj are up against Chris Gayle and Brett Lee.
Simon Taufel has a betide of an unequalled five Umpire of the Year awards on the trot, with Mark Benson, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis and Rudi Koertzen Taufel's competition. "The LG ICC Awards are a performance and owning of the best cricketing performances the period has seen over the prior 12 months or so," conductor of marketing at LG Electronics India Ltd V. Ramchandran enthused.
"The LG stigmatize also stands for the highest raze of presentation and therefore LG is very vain to be active in celebrating such a acclaimed occasion.".
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