Sachin Tendulkar was named as the Cricket of the Year 2010 to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. This is Sachin’s first ever ICC Award despite being unquestionably the best player in the world for more than 15 years. The 7th Edition of the ICC Awards was held at Bangalore in India.
The ‘Test Player of the Year’ went to Virender Sehwag while India won the award of the ‘Test Team of the Year’. AB de Villiers of South Africa got the ‘ODI Player of the Year’ while Brendon McCullum of New Zealand was the ‘Best T20I Player of the Year’. Australia was the ‘ODI Team of the Year’.
Following is the List of the ICC Award Winners of 2010 :
- Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Sachin Tendulkar (India)
- Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Shelley Nitschke (Australia)
- Test Player of the Year – Virender Sehwag (India)
- ODI Player of the Year – AB de Villiers (South Africa)
- Emerging Player of the Year – Steven Finn (England)
- Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year – Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
- Twenty20 International Performance of the Year – Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
- Spirit of Cricket – New Zealand
- Umpire of the Year (David Shepherd Trophy) – Aleem Dar (Pakistan)
- LG people’s choice award: Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Following is the ICC Test Team of the Year according to the batting order:
- Virender Sehwag (India)
- Simon Katich (Australia)
- Sachin Tendulkar (India)
- Hashim Amla (South Africa)
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
- Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India, Captain and Wicket Keeper)
- Graeme Swann (England)
- James Anderson (England)
- Dale Steyn (South Africa)
- Doug Bollinger (Australia)
Following is the ICC ODI Team of the Year according to the batting order:
- Sachin Tendulkar (India)
- Shane Watson (Australia)
- Michael Hussey (Australia)
- AB de Villiers (South Africa)
- Paul Collingwood (England)
- Ricky Ponting (Australia, Captain)
- MS Dhoni (India, Wicket Keeper)
- Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
- Stuart Broad (England)
- Doug Bollinger (Australia)
- Ryan Harris (Australia)