A fair way back, when the long lists were released, I tried my hand at tipping the winners.
As usual, my tips were mostly wrong, and I only got 3/7 - and the three that were correct were obvious. The results are below:
Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (AUS)
Test Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (AUS). I was expecting a tie between the guys who win Test matches, bowlers Muralitharan and Warne. Mohammad Yousuf would also have been a worthy winner after scoring runs for fun. I believe he's scored 2 or 3 Test double centuries in this period.
One-day Player of the Year: Michael Hussey (AUS). Yuvraj wuz robbed, and I am very shocked that he did not get it after a tremendous year with the bat including several match winning hundreds.
Captain of the Year: Mahela Jayawardene (SRI). Not bad for a stand-in captain! The end of Marvan Atapattu's captaincy?
Women's Player of the Year: Karen Rolton (AUS)
Emerging Player of the Year: Ian Bell (ENG). Alastair Cook has performed well from the start and I expected him to get the award. Bell, however, rebounded nicely from a horror Ashes and scored 3 eye catching Test centuries in a row last season.
Spirit of Cricket Award: England. I was expecting either India or Sri Lanka to get this one, but have no qualms with England getting this one.
Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (AUS). Third year running for Taufel. It is a shame that he is Australia, and can't stand in Test matches involving Australia.
World Test Team of the Year 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Michael Hussey, 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Mohammad Yousuf, 6 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 7 Andrew Flintoff, 8 Shane Warne, 9 Makhaya Ntini, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Glenn McGrath. 12th man: Brett Lee.
World ODI Team of the Year 1 Adam Gilchrist (wkt), 2 MS Dhoni, 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 Mahela Jayawardene (capt), 5 Yuvraj Singh, 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Andrew Flintoff, 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Shane Bond, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan. 12th man: Andrew Symonds.
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