Tendulkar, Gambhir nominated for ICC awards

Last year's winner Sachin Tendulkar has been short-listed for the Cricketer of the Year award while his team mate Gautam Gambhir is in the ODI Player of the Year category for the LG International Cricket Council Awards to be held in London September 12.

England batsmen Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott and Hashim Amla of South Africa are the other short-lists in the Cricketer of the Year category. The votes have been cast by the independent 25-person academy.
Trott and Cook are also short-listed for the Player of the Year award alongside compatriot James Anderson. South Africa's Jacques Kallis and Amla are the other nominations. The awards will be presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA).

The Twenty20 International Performance of the Year sees New Zealand's Tim Southee short-listed alongside England's Tim Bresnan, Australia's Shane Watson and South Africa's JP Duminy.

This year's awards includes 10 individual prizes, including the People's Choice Award and also features a newly designed Spirit of Cricket Award which honours a moment by an international player that has most adhered to the Spirit of Cricket.

This award is nominated and voted for by the Elite Panel of ICC referees and umpires.
The lists were made by a five-man selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd. The panel also includes Zaheer Abbas, Mike Gatting, Danny Morrison and Paul Adams. ufffd IANS