ICC Rankings & Awards – 2011

Alastair Cook is Test Cricketer of the Year 

Jonathan Trott has been named ICC Cricketer of the Year 2011

Bishoo named Emerging Player of the Year

Aleem Dar named best umpire for the third consecutive year

Dhoni leads ODI team of the year

Dhoni wins Spirit of Cricket award

Sangakkara named ODI Cricketer of the Year

Southee wins award for best Twenty20 performance

Stafanie Taylor wins Women's Cricketer award

ten Doeschate wins Associate award again

England dominate ICC Test team of the year

  

ICC TEST Championship:

 

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
England	37	4634	125
South Africa	21	2469	118
India	37	4336	117
Sri Lanka	23	2486	108
Australia	27	2692	100
Pakistan	24	2245	94
West Indies	23	2039	89
New Zealand	19	1485	78
Bangladesh	12	94	8

  

ICC ODI Championship:

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Australia	30	3894	130
Sri Lanka	28	3327	119
South Africa	19	2197	116
India	33	3743	113
England	29	3220	111
Pakistan	28	2820	101
New Zealand	22	1973	90
West Indies	19	1475	78
Bangladesh	26	1648	63
Zimbabwe	26	1165	45
Ireland	12	492	41
Netherlands	8	87	11
Kenya	6	0	0

Manchester United Bags EPL Title

Manchester United has set a new record in English soccer by winning the Premier League (EPL) title, the 19th league crown in the club's history. Previously Liverpool holds the pride of winning the most English league titles. United was in a tough position to secure the championship with a game to spare and achieved it with a hard-fought 1-1 draw at Elwood Park. 12 titles under Sir Alex Ferguson saw United take an absolute lead after his team's 2009 EPL success drew the team’s level at 18-18. Though his current squad was criticized at various points throughout the 2010-11 seasons, he proved the team’s caliber claiming the new record after a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford against Chelsea. The defeat of Barcelona would secure United its fourth UEFA Champions League title, formerly named the European Cup, to move one behind Liverpool's English record of five trophies in the competition.

Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic has set himself at the top level players list with his splendid performance in this season. He sustained his stunning start to the season on by making it 32 wins out of 32 in 2011 and the latest is his 7-5 6-4 victory over home favorites and defensive winner Rafael Nadal at La Caja Magica in the Madrid Open final. This was Novak’s first win in 10 meetings with Rafael on clay and it was his sixth title of the year, three of which have seen him beat world number one Rafael in the final. It’s a known fact that Nadal has been the king of clay coat with 37-match winning streak on this surface. Novak considered Rafael as his most favourite and he added ‘ most likely because of my charming streak and because I`m in the shape of my lifetime and playing the best tennis of my career I am one of the favorites, but I think Rafael has only lost one match there in his career’.

Shane Warne bid farewell to IPL

Australian legend leg spinner Shane Warne has announced his retirement from expert cricket at the end of the IPL season. At present he is playing for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL and in his Twitter account he stated “Yes this is my last year playing Indian Premier League. It's 100 per cent my last four games of specialist cricket unless we make the finals - maybe I have 5 or 6 left. Please come down and hold up RR for the last 2 home games vs. Chennai & Bangalore! We need your help!!!! Want RR to go out on a high - we must win at least 2 if not 3 of our last 4. I will miss the IPL but it's been fun for the last 4 seasons. RR has always authorized youth and Indian cricket has been the victor - I've had a great time - but it's time to say goodbye to IPL. Warne has played 52 matches for RR so far, has head the team since IPL's opening season. Warne has chosen up 56 wickets at an average of 24.66 so far in the four IPL seasons and he led Rajasthan to victory in the opening IPL. The leg-spinner had got 708 Test and 293 ODI wickets during his international career. The IPL was the only cricket event he was playing after leaving the international stage. a quaff swims like a trash can