ICC awards: Dhoni ODI player, Gambhir Test player
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won the ODI Player of the Year award for the second year at the ICC Awards in
Dhoni beat off tough competition from teammates Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag as well as West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul to take the prestigious award.
The Indian skipper has also been named the captain of both ICC Test and ODI team.
India batsman Gautam Gambhir has won the ICC Test Player of the Year.
Gambhir beat Mitchell Johnson of Australia, Sri Lanka's Thilan Samaraweera and England captain Andrew Strauss to claim the first ICC award of his career.
During the 12-month voting period, Gambhir put in some remarkable performances with the bat, making 1,269 runs with an impressive average of 84.60 in the eight Test matches he played. He scored five centuries and four half-centuries during the period.
Gambhir said: "It's been a dream run for me. I never thought it could be like this but life has changed for me and I am very happy.”
Apart from this, Indian cricketers have been named in both the ICC Test and ODI team of the year. Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and MS Dhoni have been named in the ICC One-day team.
The Indian skipper Dhoni, Indian opener Gautam Gambhir and batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar have been named in the ICC Test team of the year.
Australian right-arm fast bowler Peter Siddle was named the Emerging Player of the Year.
His 5/21 against England at Leeds in the Ashes series in August this year was his best so far.
Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan was chosen for the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year Award for his hurricane 96 from just 57 balls against West Indies in the semifinal of the Twenty20 World Cup in England on June 19.
Pakistan's Aleem dar has won the ICC Umpire of the year award.
Ireland's William Porterfield was given the Associate and Affiliate Player of 2009 while New Zealand got the Spirit of Award.
The awards were given for the performances between August 13, 2008 and August 24, 2009.
The ICC World Test Team of the Year:
MS Dhoni (Ind, captain, WK), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Andrew Strauss (Eng), AB de Villiers (SA), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Thilan Samaraweera (SL), Michael Clarke (Aus), Shakib Al Hasan (Ban), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Stuart Broad (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA),
12th man: Harbhajan Singh (Ind)
Six countries are represented in the 12-man line-up and only one player – Dale Steyn of South Africa – also appeared in the World Test Team of the Year in 2008.
The ICC World ODI Team of the Year:
MS Dhoni (Ind, captain, WK), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Chris Gayle (WI), Kevin Pietersen (Eng), Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL), Yuvraj Singh (Ind), Martin Guptill (NZ), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Nuwan Kulasekara (SL), Ajantha Mendis (SL), Umar Gul (Pak)
12th men: Thilan Thushara (SL)
