Short Lists are announced for ICC Awards 2009

Short-lists of nominees:

Individual Awards

Cricketer of the Year

• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
• Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
• Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
• Andrew Strauss (Eng)

Test Player of the Year

• Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
• Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
• Thilan Samaraweera (SL)
• Andrew Strauss (Eng)

ODI Player of the Year

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
• Virender Sehwag (Ind)
• Yuvraj Singh (Ind)

Emerging Player

• Ben Hilfenhaus (Aus)
• Graham Onions (Eng)
• Jesse Ryder (NZ)
• Peter Siddle (Aus)

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year

• Rizwan Cheema (Can)
• Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned)
• William Porterfield (Ire)
• Edgar Schiferli (Ned)

Twenty20 International Best Performance of the Year 2009

Shahid Afridi (Pak) for scoring 51 runs off 34 balls and taking 2-16 against South Africa during the ICC WorldTwenty20 semi-final in Nottingham on 18 June.

Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) for scoring 96* runs off 57 balls against the West Indies in the semi-final of the ICC WorldTwenty20 at The Oval on 19 June

Chris Gayle (WI) - for hitting 88 runs off 50 balls against Australia during the ICC WorldTwenty20 at The Oval on 6 June

Umar Gul (Pak) for taking 5-6 against New Zealand during the ICC WorldTwenty20 at The Oval on 13 June

* - Not Out

Women's Cricketer of the Year

• Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
• Shelley Nitschke (Aus)
• Claire Taylor (Eng)

Umpire of the Year

• Aleem Dar
• Tony Hill
• Asad Rauf
• Simon Taufel

Spirit of Cricket

• Australia
• England
• New Zealand
• Sri Lanka