ICC awards: Gambhir (Test), Dhoni(ODI) player of the year

The sixth ICC awards ceremony was held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 01 October 2009. They have announced team of the year also.

Mitchell Johnson (Australia) is been awarded for player of the year, Gautam Gambhir (India) as Test player of the year, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India) as ODI Player of the Year, Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka) as Twenty20 International Performance of the Year.

In other categories, Peter Siddle (Australia) got award for Emerging Player of the Year, Aleem Dar (Pakistan) as Umpire of the Year.

Claire Taylor (England) took award for Women’s Cricketer of the Year and William Porterfield (Ireland) to Associate Player of the year.

New Zealand national cricket team got award for Spirit of Cricket.

Also, ICC has announced team of year as below.

World Test XI:

Gautam Gambhir (Ind),

Andrew Strauss (Eng),

AB de Villiers (SA),

Sachin Tendulkar (Ind),

Thilan Samaraweera (SL),

Michael Clarke (Aus),

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind, captain, wicket-keeper),

Shakib Al Hasan (Ban),

Mitchell Johnson (Aus),

Stuart Broad (Eng),

Dale Steyn (SA),

12th man: Harbhajan Singh (Ind)

World one-day XI:

Virender Sehwag (Ind),

Chris Gayle (WI),

Kevin Pietersen (Eng),

Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL),

Yuvraj Singh (Ind),

Martin Guptill (NZ),

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind, captain, wicket-keeper),

Andrew Flintoff (Eng),

Nuwan Kulasekara (SL),

Ajantha Mendis (SL),

Umar Gul (Pak),

12th man: Thilan Thushara (SL)