We’re at the 2010 ICC Awards at the Grand Castle in Bangalore and red carpet arrivals are taking place.
And the award goes to:
ICC ODI Player of the Year: AB de Villiers
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Brendon McCullum for his unbeaten 116 against Australia.
Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate
Emerging player of the year: Steven Finn
ICC Umpire of the Year: Aleem Dar
West Indies fast bowlers Courtney Walsh and Joel Garner, along with the late Ken Barrington of England joined the 60 male members of the Hall of Fame, while England’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint becomes the first woman to be inducted.
To read our preview which takes a look at the players up for the top honours: Click here
Red Carpet Arrivals
Bishan Singh Bedi was among the first to arrive. He’s being inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame this evening and he said it was a huge honour. The media waiting here grilled him on what he thought about India taking on Australia and whther India vs Australia was now turning out to be a bigger rivalry than India vs Pakistan. Bedi said that there has always been a fierce rivalry between the two teams.
The Indian team arrived at the awards in their team bus and while most of them almost ran across the red carpet, Sachin Tendulkar (who is up for three awards tonight) did stop to answer questions. And there were alot of them. Sachin seemed to be in a great mood after yesterday’s awesome win in Mohali and he said that though every win means alot, yesterday’s win was just very very special. We agree!
Take a look at some of the red carpet arrivals:
