International Player Of the Year Award

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FICA Award
News Release Date: 21/06/02

PwC and FICA have announced the nominees for the two main awards for 2002.

The six nominees for the international player of the year are (in alphabetical order):

  • Gilchrist
  • Hayden
  • Jaywardene
  • Kallis
  • Muralitharan
  • Tendulkar

The criteria for the above award are:

  • Performances between 21st June 2001 and 21st June 2002
  • The player must be in (or have spent time in) the PwC top ten during the year;
  • Player must have performed outstandingly in Tests (though account will also be taken account of performances in One-Days)

The four nominees for the young rising star award are:

  • Hoggard
  • Sangakarra
  • Sarwan
  • Sehwag

The criteria for this award are:

  • Player must be 25 or under on 21st June 2002
  • Debut in the last two years
  • Must have played fewer than 25 Tests
  • Must have reached personal best PwC Rating in the last year
  • Outstanding performances (or promise) in Test cricket in the last year, though account will be taken of one-day performances.

JUDGING PANEL

The panel this year is as follows:

Barry Richards (FICA President)
Richie Benaud
Phil Simmons
Saqlain Mushtaq
John Emburey

The panel will be chaired as previously by Ted Dexter, President of the MCC, who has no vote unless there is a tie. (The panel will rank their choices 1/2/3).

The winners of the awards will be announced on July 10th at the FICA/PwC awards dinner.

The winners in 2001 were Andy Flower (main award) and Abdur Razzaq (young player). Previous main award winners have included Glenn McGrath, Steve Waugh, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara.
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What do you guys think - Who will be the player of the year.

AK

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player of the year will be between Gilchrist and Murali and the rising stars between Sangakarra and Shewag.

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too bad to see that Carl Hooper isn't in the list having scored 3 centuries (including a double) in the recent series against India as captain.

if he was in the top 10 he would have been certainly a nominee :~)

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Player of the Year: Matthew Hayden

Young Player of the Year: Vinender Sehwag

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Saqlain aur Judge Sahib?

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Intl Playa: Matthew Hayden
Youngster: Virender Sehwag

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Hayden
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Sangrakka

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Who got the award?

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ditto

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Out of those 5 nominees, there only 2 who deserves to be nominated, eventhough all of them are very good player overall.
But if you take the past year than the only 2 man who I think should be nominated are Hayden and Muralitharan.

Lets start with Tendulkur, no doubt he is very good player but his performance in the last year has been very shaky, he played some good knocks in the series against South Africa but then he had couple of bad innings, he had a horrible series in Westindies with 2 or 3 good days and an average performance against England.

Kallis, the best allrounder in the world without a doubt, but hasn't done anything special in the past year, he failed to play decently against the Aussies.

Jayawardne, a very good batsman but just like the others past year he was very inconsistent as a batsman, he only had some very good performance against westindies and zimbabwe.

Gilchrist, though he came on top in south african tour, he didn't do anything wonders before.

I'm not being biased if these 4 mentioned above can be nominated then I would like to add one more person, Waqar Younis, who can forget his great wonders in the past 3 Sharjah tournaments or his deadly closing spell at old trafford in the 2nd test against england or his brilliant performance in the natwest series where he took 7 wickets and 6 wickets in back to back matches.
with all those great performances by Waqar I still think Hayden should be picked as a winner, because he was simply the best player in the past year.

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[quote]
Originally posted by UMAIR316:
Lets start with Tendulkur, no doubt he is very good player but his performance in the last year has been very shaky, he played some good knocks in the series against South Africa but then he had couple of bad innings, he had a horrible series in Westindies with 2 or 3 good days and an average performance against England.
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Yeah 1300+ runs in 27 onedays (AVg 60+) since Jan 2001 and 1500+ runs in 17 Tests since Jan 2001 (with 58+) is definately a SHAKY performance. He doesn't deserve a place in this list.

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*Kallis, the best allrounder in the world without a doubt, *
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Thank you so much, At Last you said it. Remember all the discussion we had it on who is the best allrounder in the world right now.

AK

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Too bad he couldn't win matches for his team, after scoring 1500 runs in one days and tests, whats the use of that?
All the other nominees did wonders for their team what Tendulkur did was loose to Westindies by getting out on duck 3 times, and he is nominated!
I would nominate someone like Dravid or Laxman for their great performance and thier match winning knock in the test they won.

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[quote]
Originally posted by UMAIR316:
*Too bad he couldn't win matches for his team, after scoring 1500 runs in one days and tests, whats the use of that?
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Truer words have never been said! I wonder if he's ever going to win a match for Bharat Lara style (or even Youhana style would do). On second thought, I doubt it.

All he'll do is dole out centuries after centuries against Zimbabwe and West Indies.

Asif, please no stats. I'm quite sick of seeing numbers already.

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[quote]
Originally posted by UMAIR316:
*Too bad he couldn't win matches for his team, after scoring 1500 runs in one days and tests, whats the use of that? *
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First you say, he hasn't performed well, now that I have proved you wrong - you are saying he hasn't won matches for India, Well Dont you get tired my friend ??

Here is it - in last 20 TESTs India has lost only one match where Tendulkar has scored a Century, India has won 3 of them and two of them have ended in Draw.
And out of Last 30 matches (since jan 2001) He has played for India, Indian team has won 18 times and Sachin has score 12 scores of 50+

Still I say that Cricket is a Team game and can't be won by one Individual. And biggest proof is that Australia lost to India despite Hayden being the Highest scorer of the series.

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All the other nominees did wonders for their team what Tendulkur did was loose to Westindies by getting out on duck 3 times, and he is nominated!
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To say that Australia was winning because of Hayden is totally Wrong - Australia has been wining since 1998-1999 when Hayden was not even in the XI. Yeah Like the recent Loss to Pakistan or before that they couldn't even reach the finals of SA-NZ-AUS TRI-SERIES.

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I would nominate someone like Dravid or Laxman for their great performance and thier match winning knock in the test they won.
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Laxman's innings has already been acknowledged by the WISDEN, but One good inning doesn't make him player of the Year.

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Originally posted by sambrialian:
*I wonder if he's ever going to win a match for Bharat Lara style (or even Youhana style would do). On second thought, I doubt it. *
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Both Lara and Youhana are great Players, I admire their talent - but to say that they are winning matches for their team consistently is totally wrong. Check out the Last WI-INDIA series or Current WI-NZ series - How many runs were scored by LARA ?? About YOUHANA - He plays for a team which has a good bowling attack and in recent times he has been part of that successful team.

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All he'll do is dole out centuries after centuries against Zimbabwe and West Indies.
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This is the reason Why I bring the Stats - Because Otherwise there is no stopping for you guys - you can continue making baseless statements. In Last 25 Test matches he has score 8 100s (3-Zim,2-Aus, 1-Eng,SA,WI Each) and 11 50s (4-Aus,2-Eng,Zim,WI each,1-SA)
In Last 35 ODIs he has scored 5 100s (Aus,Ken,SA,ZIM,WI) and 8 50s (2 - ENG,WI,ZIM each and 1-Aus and SL)

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Asif, **please no stats. I'm quite sick of seeing numbers already.**
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And I am sick of your baseless claims. Numbers are only way to prove you and your pals wrong.

AK

[This message has been edited by Asif_k (edited July 01, 2002).]

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Again I say whats the use of scoring 10,000 runs when you can't contribute to win against Westindies, I never said cricket is a one man game, but all the players who are nominated should contribute some part to their team's winning, which Tendulkur does very rarely, Hayden isn't the main reason Australia wins but because he is a huge contributor.

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Asif,

why waste time?
next time you prove him wrong..he will start complaining about tendulkar’s hight. or may be he looks so white?
or he doesnt have moustache..

http://www3.pak.org/gupshup/smilies/wink.gif

so stop arguing where people are not sure about what they are discussing.

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[This message has been edited by andha_qanoon (edited July 01, 2002).]

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I don't why Indians get offended when I talk about Tendulkur, its not like I'm dissing the Indian team or country but I'm just saying he never rises to the occasion when it really matters like the 2 test India lost to Westindies or South Africa.

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so who is the one who rises in every match he plays????

what do u think of him ....Superman... !!!!

coming back to topic ...fact is that here you started saying that Tendulkar didnt play good in last one year and you have been proved wrong.

and when u were proved wrong u started your old cribbing that he doesnt win matches as if whenever he scores run for india is counted in opposing teams score.

Get over Anti-Tendulkar feeling man.. !!!!
We know where does your feeling come from.Its called FRUSTRATION.

[This message has been edited by andha_qanoon (edited July 01, 2002).]

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Frustration from what?
Last time I checked Pakistan is way ahead of India, it might be understandable if pakistan was in India's situation and vice versa then I will be frustrated.
I am a big Tendulkur fan, I was the one in here who said he is better than Bradman, so there is no anti-tendulkur in here.
Just because Asif put bunch of numbers in his post doesn't prove crap, Bevan has the best one day average, does that mean he is the greatest one day player of all time, no!
I just expressed my feelings about the nominations and if the contest is for individual performance than he should get it but as far as his contribution to his team's success (if there is any) then only 2 man deserve that prize.

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[quote]
Originally posted by andha_qanoon:
** Asif,

why waste time?
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Exactly, you should do what Andha himself did when Pakistan won those two matches against Australia... Go into hiding!