CricInfo awards 2011- Tendulkar and Bracewell take awards | Misbah and Ajmal win statsguru awards

[SachDan]

Sachin Tendulkar and Doug Bracewell have won the Test batting and bowling awards in the fifth annual ESPNcricinfo Awards, announced today. Tendulkar's 146 in Cape Town early in 2011 came in testing conditions and in the face of some sublime swing bowling by Dale Steyn. Bracewell won in his debut year in international cricket, for his 6 for 40 in New Zealand's historic seven-run win against Australia in Hobart. Another first for the awards was the victory of an Associate player - Kevin O'Brien, who got votes from 13 out of the panel of 16 jurors, for his nerveless century in Ireland's historic win over England in the World Cup . The ODI bowling award didn't emerge from the global tournament, though there were five World Cup performances among the nominees. Mitchell Johnson won it for his six-wicket haul in Pallekele during Australia's tour to Sri Lanka. The awards were decided by a 16-member jury that included former players Ian Chappell, Ian Bishop, Ramiz Raja, Kepler Wessels, Geoff Boycott, Martin Crowe, Sanjay Manjrekar and Russel Arnold, and ESPNcricinfo's senior writers. The jurors were asked to pick their top three performances in each category from a shortlist of nominees. The Test and ODI bowling performances were closely fought. Stuart Broad was the loser by a just a point in both categories - for his 4 for 15 in the World Cup match against South Africa and his six-for, which included a hat-trick, in the Lord's Test against India. However, he beat Steyn, 2010's Test bowling winner, by six points in Tests and four points in ODIs. The Test batting category had the widest gap between the winner and No. 2 - six points separated Tendulkar's innings and Michael Clarke's 151, also scored in Cape Town, in the Test in which Australia dismissed South Africa for 96 and were then bowled out in their second innings for 47. Tendulkar was the No. 1 choice of seven jurors out of the 11 who had him in their top three. O'Brien's figures were the next best, with six No. 1 votes. Bishop, the former West Indies bowler, said O' Brien's innings was exceptional. "The manner in which it was scored when his team was in the situation that it was the type of power-hitting showed, the type of fearlessness he showed augurs well for him and his team." While it was Tendulkar's second ESPNcricinfo Award - he won the ODI Batting performance in 2009 for his 175 against Australia in Hyderabad - it was a first for the rest. Chappell, a former Australia captain, said Tendulkar showed true class during his 146. "He faced 314 balls which is not Tendulkar-like, the strike rate, but these were precious runs. This was another side of Tendulkar, just showing his greatness - his ability to make runs when things were really tough, and he really had to battle." ESPNcricinfo's readers agreed with the jury's assessment of the Test batting performance but picked Virender Sehwag, Junaid Khan and Shahid Afridi in the other three categories.

[Stuge]

Hail to dadhichi..hatsoff agian That Capetown innings of his was one of the best in the recent times :)

[Asim]

Statsguru Awards (2011): Misbah and Ajmal take top prizes BATSMAN OF THE YEAR: Misbah-ul-Haq - Test average 69.54, ODI index 37.22, Total 106.76 BOWLER OF THE YEAR: Saeed Ajmal - Test average 23.86, ODI index 11.33, Total 35.19 BEST TEST BATSMAN: Ian Bell - average 118.75 MOST CONSISTENT TEST BATSMAN: Misbah-ul-Haq - Consistency index 2.12 BEST TEST BOWLER: Stuart Broad - 33 wickets at 22.30 BEST ODI BATSMAN: Shane Watson - ODI batting index 62.03 BEST ODI BOWLER: Saeed Ajmal - ODI bowling index 11.33 ************** OTHER AWARDS ************** Test batting BATTING PAIR OF THE YEAR: OPENERS: Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook BATTING PAIR OF THE YEAR: OTHERS: Taufeeq Umar and Azhar Ali HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF TEAM RUNS: Darren Bravo MOST RUNS IN WINS: Ian Bell BEST STRIKE RATE: Kevin Pietersen HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF RUNS IN BOUNDARIES: Sachin Tendulkar Test bowling BEST STRIKE RATE: Fidel Edwards BEST SPINNER: Saeed Ajmal BEST THIRD- AND FOURTH-INNINGS BOWLER: Vernon Philander ODI batting BEST STRIKE RATE: Shane Watson LOWEST STRIKE RATE: Misbah-ul-Haq BATTING PAIR OF THE YEAR: OPENERS: Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga BATTING PAIR OF THE YEAR: OTHERS: Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF RUNS IN BOUNDARIES: Shane Watson LOWEST DOT-BALL PERCENTAGE: Suresh Raina HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF TEAM RUNS: Shane Watson MOST RUNS IN WINS: Virat Kohli MOST RUNS IN CHASES: Shane Watson ODI bowling BEST ECONOMY RATE: Mohammad Hafeez WORST ECONOMY RATE: Shafiul Islam BEST DOT-BALL PERCENTAGE: Saeed Ajmal LOWEST BOUNDARY PERCENTAGE: Mohammad Hafeez Teams MOST DOMINANT: TESTS: England MOST DOMINANT: ODIs: Pakistan MOST DISCIPLINED: ODIs: India http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards2011/content/story/554009.html

[sumvell]

Next match, he'll book his award for 2012 with a sublime innings ( if he plays)

[Viki_J]

Hatts off to both Sachin Tendulkar and Doug Bracewell:hatsoff::hatsoff:

[Sidhoni]

:hatsoff: Top 3 are Indians in the Lowest dot ball %(Raina, Kohli & MSD)

[Sachinism]

India couldn't win a dominated award, so they made up a new disciplined award

[Sidhoni]

India couldn't win a dominated award' date=' so they made up a new disciplined award[/quote'] That award was there previous year too when NZ won it iirc

[Raghav_12]

That great innings may very well turn out to be last test century of Sachin's career.

[tothepoint]

'One of the best sessions of my life' - Sachin Tendulkar Great interview on one of the greatest innings played by Sachin. :icflove: http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards2011/content/story/554492.html