Batting ace Sachin Tendulkar was on Wednesday named 'Cricketer of the Year' at the ICC's awards function in Bangalore. Cricket's highest run-getter, who has 13,973 Test and 17,598 ODI runs to his name, also won the ICC People's Choice award.
Kohli, who also led India to the top of the world's Test rankings during the period, received the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, which team mate Ravichandran Ashwin had won last year.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Saturday it estimated financial losses of $10.5 million following the International Cricket Council decision to shift the 2011 World Cup matches from the country. 'We lose out on earning the hosting fees of the matches...the ICC pays out the host country $750,000 for each match,' Saleem Altaf, chief operating officer said.
Gautam Gambhir says he is honoured to emulate former India captain Rahul Dravid by winning the ICC Test Player of the Year award. 'It's a great feeling to be rated the best Test batsman of the year, an award which has come an Indian's way after Rahul Dravid [in 2004], who truly is one of the legends of the game,' he said after receiving the award in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Australian right-arm fast bowler Peter Siddle on Thursday was named the Emerging Player of the Year at a glittering International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards ceremony in Johannesburg.
Gautam Gambhir, Mitchell Johnson, Andrew Strauss and Mahendra Singh Dhoni have all been short-listed for the top honour at the LG ICC Awards 2009. In addition, Gambhir, Johnson and Strauss are also short-listed for the Test Player of the Year alongside Sri Lanka's Thilan Samaraweera at the sixth annual LG ICC Awards, presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA).
On a night of mixed fortune for Indian cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named the ODI Player of the Year, Yuvraj Singh won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year Award but pacer Ishant Sharma failed to win the Emerging Player honour at the annual ICC awards function in Dubai.
India's bowlers laid the foundation before Shikhar Dhawan anchored a straightforward chase to secure the tourists a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first one day international in Napier on Wednesday.
'It feels great to know that I am the first Indian player to get this particular award and it's very special because now I am in the company of a lot of other good cricketers,' said an elated Mahendra Dhoni after winning ICC ODI Player of the Year award.
Despite being one of only five players nominated for all three main categories, the off spinner was omitted from the World Test XI.
The winners of the inaugural ICC Awards will be announced at Tuesday night's gala ceremony at Alexandra Palace in London.
The prolific batsman was named along with Herschelle Gibbs, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini and a provincial player, Alan Dawson.
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The ICC Player of the Year award will be named in honour of West Indian legend Sir Garfield Sobers.
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The ICC has named cricket's most prestigious individual award in honour of West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers.
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The world's greatest cricketers will play a one-off six-day Test and three game one-day series in Sydney and Melbourne in October 2005.
Top Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar has had denied speculations that he was planning to retire from the International Cricket Council's Elite panel of umpires, saying he is eager to continue till the next One-day International World Cup in 2019.
The 22-year-old played a crucial role in India's semi-final appearance at the ICC Women's World T20 in the West Indies, scoring 178 runs in five matches at a strike-rate of 125.35.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has emerged as one of the five players nominated for the LG People's Choice Award ahead of the ICC annual awards.
He is only the fourth cricketer to win the coveted prize after Sachin Tendulkar, who was the first recipient in 2010, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, who won it in 2011 and 2012, and India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who won it last year.
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India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named captain of ICC's ODI Team of the Year, but none of the Indian players found berth in governing body's Test Team of the Year, led by Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews.
Indian players failed to make a mark as Australians and South Africans swept the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Annual Awards with Steve Smith clinching the coveted trophies of Cricketer of the Year and the Test Cricketer of the Year.
The International Chamber of Commerce's arbitration body International Court of Arbitration has ruled in our favour in the Antrix-Devas arbitration case and Antrix is liable to pay damages totalling $672 million to it, Devas said on Tuesday.
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