Indians dominate the Cricket Oscars

After a blistering cricketing season, winning 6 one-day series in a row and not loosing a single test series since early 2008, the Indians with no doubt dominated the ICC Awards a.k.a. cricket Oscars. At the end, Indians came home with the Test player and the ODI player awards and 3 players each in the ICC Test XI as well as the ICC One-day XI. Gambhir and Dhoni got the top honors for India with the Test player and ODI player of year awards respectively. Nevertheless, the Indian guys weren’t able to bag the top brass honor – The cricketer of year, which went to Mitchell Johnson for his all-round performance over the year for Australia. Dhoni during the voting period scored 967 runs @ 60.43 and scoring rate @ 86.63 from 100 balls in 24 games played. He too got 26 dismissals as a wicket-keeper with 18 catches and 8 stumpings. Moreover, Dhoni won the award for the second time in a row. Gambhir, on the other hand, 1269 runs in 12 matches @ 86.4 with 5 centuries and 4 half-centuries. The other top awards were the Twenty20 international performance of the year, bagged by Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan for his 96 runs fest off 57 balls on the eve of semi-final of the ICC T20 2009. Furthermore, Claire Taylor of England won the women cr...