Sachin vs Sehwag : Who is gonna win?
Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar is in contention for three trophies while dashing opener Virender Sehwag could walk away with two in the ICC Annual awards to be presented on Wednesday.
While Sehwag is vying for the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year, Tendulkar has been nominated in Test Player of the Year, Cricketer of the Year and People's Choice awards.
The awards will also see the announcement and induction of this year's ICC Cricket Hall of Fame nominees and India's Bishan Bedi will receive his commemorative cap. Bedi was named in the original 55 inductees to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in association with FICA in 2009.
India vs Australia
Based on the period between August 2009 and 2010, the ICC Awards take into account performances by players and officials. Up for grabs will be nine individual awards and three team honours with the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award as well as the World Test and ODI Teams of the Year also being announced, the ICC said in a statement.
The voting period includes such high-profile events as the ICC Men's and Women's World Twenty20 2010 in West Indies, the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 in South Africa and the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 2010 in the Netherlands, as well as several bilateral Test and ODI series.
The player awards are judged by a 25-person voting academy, which is entirely independent of the ICC. The process is monitored by independent auditors Ernst and Young.
This year's awards will be attended by a variety of players and former greats of the game.
There will be several representatives from Team India as well as the visiting Australia squad along with other nominees including South African duo of Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers, Australia women's team pair of Shelley Nitschke and Ellyse Perry as well as Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardena and Angelo Matthews and many others.
