Cricketers are running for icc awards-Zaheer, Sachin, Dravid running for ICC Awards

Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Rahul Dravid have been nominated for the prestigious Cricketer of the Year Award, to be presented at the annual ICC Awards which will be held in London on September 12.
Zaheer has also been nominated Test Player of the Year and ODI Player of the Year awards.
Both Tendulkar and Dravid have previously won the Garfield Sobers Trophy for the Player of the Year award. Tendulkar won it in 2010 while Dravid won it at the inaugural awards in 2004.





Zaheer, currently nursing ankle and hamstring injuries, is among six players from four countries to earn three nominations this year.
The others are Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann of England, AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla of South Africa and Shane Watson of Australia, who will vie for the annual awards.
The other Indians nominated for the Test Player of the Year award are Dravid, Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh and Tendulkar.


India captain MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Munaf Patel, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh have been nominated for the ODI Player award.
Dhoni is also nominated for the People's Choice Award, to be decided by online voting. Fans can vote by going to www.lgpeopleschoice.com.
Indian pacer Jhulan Goswami is the lone Indian nominated for the Women's Cricketer of the Year award.


Abhinav Mukund is running for the Emerging Player award.
To qualify for that award a player must be under the age of 26 and have played fewer than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs and five T20Is at the start of the voting period.
The award nominees were selected by a panel of experts based on performances between August 11, 2010 and August 3, 2011.





The five-man expert panel responsible for these nominations includes former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd, Mike Gatting of England, Danny Morrison of New Zealand, Paul Adams of South Africa and Pakistan's Zaheer Abbas.
Long-lists of nominees (in alphabetical order; each category will be reduced to a short-list in due course)
Individual Awards


CRICKETER OF THE YEAR (SIR GARFIELD SOBERS TROPHY): Hashim Amla (SA), James Anderson (Eng), Ian Bell (Eng), Stuart Broad (Eng), Alastair Cook (Eng), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Jacques Kallis (SA), Zaheer Khan (Ind), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Andrew Strauss (Eng), Graeme Swann (Eng), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Chris Tremlett (Eng), Jonathan Trott (Eng), AB de Villiers (SA), Shane Watson (Aus).


TEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Hashim Amla (SA), James Anderson (Eng), Ian Bell (Eng), Stuart Broad (Eng), Alastair Cook (Eng), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Jacques Kallis (SA), Zaheer Khan (Ind), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak), Kevin Pietersen (Eng), Ishant Sharma (Ind), Harbhajan Singh (Ind), Dale Steyn (SA), Graeme Swann (Eng), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Chris Tremlett (Eng), Jonathan Trott (Eng), AB de Villiers (SA), Shane Watson (Aus).





ODI PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Hashim Amla (SA), Michael Clarke (Aus), MS Dhoni (Ind), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Mohammed Hafeez (Pak), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Zaheer Khan (Ind), Virat Kohli (Ind), Lasith Malinga (SL), Munaf Patel (Ind), Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Shakib Al Hasan (Bang), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Yuvraj Singh (Ind), Tim Southee (NZ), Dale Steyn (SA), Graeme Swann (Eng), Jonathan Trott (Eng), AB de Villiers (SA), Shane Watson (Aus).