Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year

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2010 SCJ Broad, MJ Clarke, G Onions, MJ Prior, GP Swann.

http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/209422.html

Well do u guys think Onions and Prior deserved this award

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SCJ Broad, MJ Clarke, G Onions, MJ Prior, GP Swann.

Four English and one Aussie. :hmmm: I can’t think of anything they achieved that would suggest they deserve this award.

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i think the awards were held for only these two countries.. :)

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ya thats biased nothing else

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Poor Tendulkar...Muralitharan...and Asif to some extent...lol

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Murali won in 1999. Tendi in 1997. You can't win it twice per the rules. Yeah Asif deserves one too. To be honest, Wisden "Cricketer of the Year" lost its stature a long time ago

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Yeah agree with faraz

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what a joke, these are a bunch of no name players

but then again, who takes wisden seriously anyways

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I think its a bad rule...a player must able to win every time and for any number of years as long as he is the best... :)

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Waleedhbk: one of the points of Wisden choosing five Cricketers of the Year is to foster a debate, so it seems to be successful in that respect.

A1kashur: you might have a point if you didn’t include Graeme Swann, but there are few serious observers of the game who doubt his abilities. Statistics aren’t everything, but in 2009 – and achievements in that year are what mattered for the 2010 awards – Swann took more wickets than anyone bar Mitchell Johnson; he also averaged 45 with the bat. Isn’t that something that might suggest he deserves the award?

Redidentity: the award of being a Wisden Cricketer of the Year is determined by “influence on the English season”, so in an English summer that contains an Ashes series, cricketers from England and Australia are always the likeliest to be named. (There’s no denying that English players are always in with the best chance of influencing the English season.) Wisden is primarily a book, and almost every copy is sold in the UK, so there is an inevitable focus on the English season.

But you should look at the winners of the 2011 awards. These will not be announced until next April, but will be based on an English summer in which the major series was against Pakistan. There’s plenty of time to go, but at the moment it must look as though one of Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir – possibly both? – might be named. Not so sure about the batsmen, though…

And since 2004, there has been another award: the Leading Cricketer of the Year. This has no bias towards any one country: the winner is simply “the first name down on a teamsheet of the Earth XI to play Mars”. There has been only the one winner from England, plus one from Sri Lanka, one from India (who’s won the award twice, incidentally), one from South Africa and two from Australia.

Farazrafi: the rules for being one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year are possibly old-fashioned, but for some that’s their appeal. The fact that people all over the world still do debate the rights and wrongs of Wisden’s selection suggests Wisden still has some stature.

Skhan: I guess Wisden see the selection of the Five as a piece of fun. Some years you get a classic vintage; others are less memorable. Wisden is essentially a book (and a modest website). As such it can do some campaigning. One of its achievements is to persuade the ICC that Test cricket needs some form of championship. Some take it seriously; others do not.

Zabardast: that’s fair enough. The rule that you cannot win twice is an odd one, but it is an essential part of the award which dates back to 1889, making it the oldest individual award in cricket. It’s unlikely to be changed now… The Leading Cricketer in the World award can be won twice (and has been).

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^ welcome aboard Wisden.