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List of ICC AWARDS 2009

icc-awards-2009List of ICC AWARD 2009

  • Indian opener Gautam Gambhir was named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year.
  • Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was adjudged the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year.
  • Mitchell Johnson won the Cricketer of the Year award.
  • Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan was adjudged the ICC Twenty20 International Performer of the Year.
  • Australia’s Peter Siddle as the ICC Emerging Player of the Year.
  • Kiwis claim award: New Zealand bagged the Spirit of Cricket award.
  • Pakistan’s Aleem Dar walked away with the Umpire of the Year prize.
  • Ireland captain William Porterfield was named the ICC Associate Nations’ Cricketer of the Year.

The ODI team of the Year:

M.S. Dhoni (capt.), Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yuvraj Singh, Martin Guptill, Andrew Flintoff, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis and Umar Gul; 12th man: Thilan Thushara.
The ICC Test team of the Year:

M.S. Dhoni (capt.), G. Gambhir, A. Strauss, A.B. de Villiers, S. Tendulkar, T. Samaraweera, M. Clarke, Shakib-ul-Hasan, M. Johnson, S. Broad, and D. Steyn; 12th man: Harbhajan Singh.

These awards were given away for performances between August 2008 and August 2009. The winners were selected by an elite panel that included Clive Lloyd, Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar, Stephen Fleming and Bob Taylor.

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India ODI Squad announced and Dravid return to one day squad after 2 years

dravid-come-backChairman Krishnamachari Srikkanth’s said that this is the best team we could have sent.

Seletors said that Our batting looked suspect during the T20 World Cup and the West Indies series. So we thought Dravid was the right man to add some spunk to the lineup, especially on the fast and bouncy tracks of South Africa.

With Zaheer (Khan) and (Virender) Sehwag not there, we’re short of two genuine matchwinners. Basically, we were looking at more impact players the selector added.

Abhishek Nayar is the only all-rounder in the squad while wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik will be considered as the third opener in case of a crisis. He did the job successfully in the West Indies and is a multi-utility cricketer.

India ODI Squad announced:

Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Dinesh Karthik, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar

Dravid would once again take guard for India in ODIs. It was middle-order solidity the selectors were looking for and Dravid fitted the bill perfectly.

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T20 Champions League Groups and Fixtures Announced

Host India will have three teams in the competition, with Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils joining Bangalore in the lineup.

A total of 23 matches will be played Oct. 8-23 at three venues: Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad.

The 12 teams have been divided into four preliminary groups of three teams each. Two teams from each group will advance to the eight-team round-robin league.

The top four teams will then move into the semifinals, which will be played in New Delhi on Oct. 21 and Hyderabad on Oct. 22. Hyderabad will stage the final on Oct. 23.

Group A: Deccan Chargers (India), Trinidad and Tobago (West Indies) and England No. 2 (to be decided).

Group B: New South Wales Blues (Australia), Diamond Eagles (South Africa) and England No. 1 (to be decided).

Group C: Royal Challengers Bangalore (India), Cape Cobras (South Africa) and Otago Volts (New Zealand).

Group D: Delhi Daredevils (India), Victoria Bushrangers (Australia) and Wayamba (Sri Lanka)

Organizers released the draw Thursday for the the new US$6-million international T20 tournament involving 12 top provincial teams from seven nations. Victoria and New South Wales qualified from Australia, with Cape Cobras and Diamond Eagles from South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago from West Indies, Otago from New Zealand and Wayamba from Sri Lanka.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Cape Cobras in the inaugural match of the Twenty20 Champions League in October.
The two English teams will be decided after the domestic Twenty20 championship ends in August.

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly: India will bounce back

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s boys were capable of shrugging off their World Twenty20 disappointment and would bounce back in the one-day International series against the West Indies, which kicks off on Friday.

westindies-vs-india-2009“Sachin (Tendulkar), (Virender) Sehwag and Zaheer (Khan) will surely be missed… But I’m confident that the rest are quite capable of putting up a good performance against the West Indies as they are experienced in the ODIs. He though, had a word of caution for the Indian team. West Indies are a good team. They have some quality players in Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul who can change the outcome of a game. It’s going to be a tough series.

Sourav downplayed India’s not-too-impressive performance in the World Twenty20 saying that Team India had consistently done well in the shortest format of the game.They have been doing well for the last one and a half years and failure in just one tournament shouldn’t be blown up like this.

Sourav, who recently began his innings as a commentator, put his weight behind skipper Dhoni. He has been handling the job quite well. You can’t judge him by one tournament.

The sixteen member team includes Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Yuvraj Singh (vice captain), Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, S Badrinath, RP Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja and Dinesh Karthik.

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Owner Shah Rukh Khan (srk) fires John Buchanan

knight-ridersKolkata Knight Riders  sacked controversial Australian coach John Buchanan after their poor performance in the recent Indian Premier League.

The Kolkata team finished last in the eight-team IPL in South Africa last month, losing 10 of their 14 league matches. It took KKR’s owners a little more than three weeks after the end of the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to make the decision. The instructions to let go off Mr Buchanan came from Mr Khan through an email communique. The actor is in the US where he is shooting for his next film.

The KKR franchise was bought for $75 million by SRK, Jai Mehta and Juhi Chawla. It was one of the only two teams that turned in a profit in the first season of the IPL.  KKR has been the most-valued team of the IPL with a brand value of $42.1 million, according to UK-based consultancy Brand Finance.

Now Buchanan is set for a coaching role with England ahead of the Ashes series against Australia. Earlier Buchanan left the Australia job after the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies as elite cricket’s most successful coach, with a winning record of 70 percent after becoming national coach in 1999.

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Winners List Of Univercell Vijay Awards 2009

vijayawards01Univercell Vijay Awards 2009, an awards ceremony for the stars and films chosen by the best jury and the audience. It was a star studded evening at the Univercell Vijay Awards 2009 with Kollywood stars filling the charged atmosphere with their charismatic aura. The voting starts from May 17th for Vijay Awards Tamil movies. The 3rd Annual Univercell vijay awards 2009 that was held in jawaharlal nehru stadium on 13 th june 2009. It witnessed several popular artists, technicians, movie-makers from the filmdom who graced the vijay awards with glamour and glitz

Awards

Name

Film

Song
Favourite Hero Dr.Kamal Haasan Dasavatharam
Favourite Heroine Nayantara Yaaradi Nee Mohini
Favourite Film Vaaranam Aaiyram
Favourite Director Gautham Vasudev Menon Vaaranam Aaiyram
Best Actor Surya Vaaranam Aaiyram
Best Supporting Female Actress Simran Vaaranam Aaiyram
Best Music Director Harris Jayaraj
Best Playback Singer Hariharan Vaaranam Aaiyram Nenjukkul
Best Lyricist Thamarai Vaaranam Aaiyram Nenjukkul
Best Makeup Artists Banu And Yogesh Vaaranam Aaiyram
Best Director Sasi Kumar Subramaniapuram
Best Cinematographer S.R.Kathir
Best Editor Raja Mohammed
Best Stunt Master Rajasekhar Subramaniapuram
Best Comedian Dr.Kamal Haasan Dasavatharam
Best Villian Dr.Kamal Haasan Dasavatharam
Best Story Screenplay Writer Dr.Kamal Haasan Dasavatharam
Best Art Directors Sammer Chanda, Prabhakaran, Thota Tharani
Best Costume Designer Gautami Tadimalla Dasavatharam
Best Female Actress Sneha Privom Santhipom
Best New Comer Parvathy Poo
Best Playpack Singer Bombay Jayashri Dhaam Dhoom Yaaro Manathilae
Best Find Of The Year James Vasanthan Subramaniapuram
Best Entertainer Of The Year Dhanush Yaaradi Nee Mohini
Most Prestigious Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan A.R Rahman
Best Crew Award Subramaniapuram Team Subramaniapuram
Best Contribution to Tamil Cinema Satyam Cinemas
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