2010 ICC Awards: Double Dhamaka for Sachin

We were at the 2010 ICC Awards at the Grand Castle in Bangalore.

Sachin Tendulkar

Take a look at pictures from the event: Click here

Here’s a look at who won:

Cricketer of the Year: Sachin Tendulkar Here’s what the master blaster said about his first ICC Cricketer of the Year award: Better late than never. He was happy that the team achieved the number one Test team ranking in Decemeber and have maintained it since then. He gave credit to all his fans for the support he has which continues to egg him on.

Test Cricketer of the Year: Virender Sehwag- Sehwag who has had a spectacular past 12 months in the longer format of the game rated Tuesday’s win against Australia as the best win of his career. He said it was privelege to part of the team and that the Indian team has set their sights on winning the ODI World Cup in the coming year.

ODI Cricketer of the Year: AB de Villiers – We asked AB if he thought the ODI format was still relevant. He said he loved playing all three formats of the game, and that it was up to the ICC to make changes in the format to keep interest alive.

World Test Team of the Year: Lead by MS Dhoni

The team: Virender Sehwag, Simon Katich, Sachin Tendulkar, Hashim Amla, Kumar Sangakkara, Jacques Kallis, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Dale Steyn, Doug Bollinger.

India’s skipper took the opportunity to speak about his team and said he was proud of his team’s exploits. When quizzed about what India could improve on Dhoni said ground fielding was one area they weren’t brilliant at and could do with some improvement.

World ODI Team of the Year: Lead by Ricky Ponting –

The team: Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, AB de Villiers, Paul Collingwood, Ricky Ponting, MS Dhoni, Daniel Vettori, Stuart Broad, Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris

Ponting was quite surprised to get this one. He said he came to the awards not expecting to win anything.

LG People’s Choice Award: Sachin Tendulkar

Spirit of Cricket Award: New Zealand

Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Shelley Nitschke

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Brendon McCullum for his unbeaten 116 against Australia.

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate from the Netherlands

Emerging player of the year: Steven Finn from England- Steven spoke of how England were confident of winning the upcoming Ashes even though they would be underdogs in Australia.

ICC Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar – The Pakistani umpire won the award for the second year in a row. He said that the UDRS system for reviews should be implemented

West Indies fast bowlers Courtney Walsh and Joel Garner, along with Bishan Singh Bedi and the late Ken Barrington of England joined the 60 male members of the Hall of Fame, while England’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint becomes the first woman to be inducted.

Bishan Singh Bedi was among the first to arrive. He’s being inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame this evening and he said it was a huge honour. The media waiting here grilled him on what he thought about India taking on Australia and whther India vs Australia was now turning out to be a bigger rivalry than India vs Pakistan. Bedi said that there has always been a fierce rivalry between the two teams.

The Indian team arrived at the awards in their team bus and while most of them almost ran across the red carpet, Sachin Tendulkar (who was up for three awards tonight) did stop to answer questions. And there were plenty of them! Sachin seemed to be in a great mood after yesterday’s awesome win in Mohali and he said that though every win means alot, yesterday’s win was just very very special. We agree.

Who wore what:

- The Aussies came sufficiently suited and booted in team blazers and ties.
- The Indian team on the other hand wore collared T-shirts. Guess the BCCI/ Sahara couldn’t afford coats.
- Sachin Tendulkar was spotted in a Dabaang-esque belt. We were half expecting him to break out into a Salman-like jig!

- Women’s Cricketer of the Year Shelly Nitschke wore a short one-shoulder dress and couldn’t help blushing when the photographers asked her to hold up her trophy.

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