Brendon McCullum won the ICC's T20 performance of the year award, for his Rajnikanth style batting at Christchurch this past February against a completely nonplussed Australian side.
Scoresheet: http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/423788.html
Incidentally, I had referred to this innings in one of my previous blog postings because of its sheer unreal nature.... loopback here -->. http://a-test-of-balls.blogspot.com/2010/03/rajinikanth-of-t-20.html#links
As more or less expected, Virender Sehwag, the modern day Hanuman of cricket, won the Test player of the year award at the 2010 ICC felicitations. More than the number of runs he accumulated, or the lightening quick rate at which he did, it was for his dominance over the bowlers that he deserved this award. 6 centuries in 16 Test innings; a batting average of 87 that piled up about 1300 blindingly fast runs scored at an unheard strike rate of 97 were enough to put Sehwag up for the award.
Sachin Tendulkar, the man beyond awards or adjectives, got the coveted Overall Cricketer of the Year, and deservedly so. This man was prodigious over both forms of cricket. Over a thousand runs in 10 Tests at an average of 80 with 6 centuries, AND, about a 900 ODI runs with 3 centuries in just 17 games at 65 runs per innings, at 98 runs per 100 balls.....What else is necessary to define a complete batsman?
More so, why in the name of God do they even consider Tendulkar for awards any more ? If at age 38 someone could not just get the best cricketer of the year award but also be nominated in all the other major categories too, I think there is no award worthy of such a player. The ICC should just give him one final, ultimate, supreme, zenith award called "The Untouchable" and let him be. I'm beginning to fear for another tennis elbow for the poor guy, from just collecting and holding trophies !
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