The Wisden Cricketers Almanack, a renowned cricket book published annually, has announced four players as the cricketers of the year on the basis of their performance over the last one year.
Wisden has been awarding five cricketers every year in recognition of their performance since 1926, but this year the magazine has unconventionally named only four players.
It is believed that the fifth player could have been one of the three Pakistani cricketers: Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt- who were controversially banned from cricket by ICC for at least 5 years for their alleged involvement with bookmakers. More precisely, it is thought that young pacer Mohammad Amir could have been the fifth cricketer.
Three of the four cricketers are from England: Eoin Morgan, Chris Read and Jonathan Trott. The other cricketer is Bangladesh's opening batsman Tamim Iqbal, who had a great last summer in England where he hit two back-to-back test centuries. He along with Steven Finn was jointly named player of the series.
Morgan, Read and Trott also spent a very successful summer last year and were vital behind some of England's big successes.
The four players selected in the 148th edition of Wisden – published next Thursday, April 14th – include the first Bangladeshi and Irishman to be chosen as Cricketers of the Year.
There are their performance in short, which make you clear why they elected them as WISDEN Players of the year.
• Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s flamboyant opening batsman, who scored thrilling centuries in both his country’s Tests in England last summer. He scored 837 runs at 59.78 in seven Tests during 2010, despite his team failing to win a single one of them during the year.
• Eoin Morgan, the Dublin-born former Ireland international, whose audacious strokeplay helped England win the World Twenty20 in 2010.
• Chris Read, a former England wicketkeeper and still a master craftsman behind the stumps, who led Nottinghamshire to win the County Championship in 2010.
• Jonathan Trott, one of England’s recent Ashes heroes, who scored 1,325 Test runs in 2010, including 226 and 184 at Lord’s last summer.
Bangladesh batsman Tamim Iqbal beat competition from established stars like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Jacques Kallis to be named Wisden Cricketer magazine's 'World Test Player of the Year'.
The accolade completes a remarkable double success for Bangladesh which has now produced successive Test Players of the Year, captain Shakib-Al-Hassan taking the award in 2009.
"England in 2010 was no place to be a visiting batsman. With the Dukes ball doing handstands in swing-friendly conditions, Tamim surged to a brace of glorious hundreds at Lord's and Old Trafford that scrambled England's gameplans and left them waiting for errors that rarely materialised," it added.
Wisden has been awarding five cricketers every year in recognition of their performance since 1926, but this year the magazine has unconventionally named only four players.
It is believed that the fifth player could have been one of the three Pakistani cricketers: Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt- who were controversially banned from cricket by ICC for at least 5 years for their alleged involvement with bookmakers. More precisely, it is thought that young pacer Mohammad Amir could have been the fifth cricketer.
Three of the four cricketers are from England: Eoin Morgan, Chris Read and Jonathan Trott. The other cricketer is Bangladesh's opening batsman Tamim Iqbal, who had a great last summer in England where he hit two back-to-back test centuries. He along with Steven Finn was jointly named player of the series.
Morgan, Read and Trott also spent a very successful summer last year and were vital behind some of England's big successes.
The four players selected in the 148th edition of Wisden – published next Thursday, April 14th – include the first Bangladeshi and Irishman to be chosen as Cricketers of the Year.There are their performance in short, which make you clear why they elected them as WISDEN Players of the year.
• Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s flamboyant opening batsman, who scored thrilling centuries in both his country’s Tests in England last summer. He scored 837 runs at 59.78 in seven Tests during 2010, despite his team failing to win a single one of them during the year.
• Eoin Morgan, the Dublin-born former Ireland international, whose audacious strokeplay helped England win the World Twenty20 in 2010.
• Chris Read, a former England wicketkeeper and still a master craftsman behind the stumps, who led Nottinghamshire to win the County Championship in 2010.
• Jonathan Trott, one of England’s recent Ashes heroes, who scored 1,325 Test runs in 2010, including 226 and 184 at Lord’s last summer.
Bangladesh batsman Tamim Iqbal beat competition from established stars like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Jacques Kallis to be named Wisden Cricketer magazine's 'World Test Player of the Year'.
Tamim heads a field of exceptional performers, beating England off-spinner Graeme Swann into second place and Sehwag into third.
The accolade completes a remarkable double success for Bangladesh which has now produced successive Test Players of the Year, captain Shakib-Al-Hassan taking the award in 2009.
"Batting with a bulldozer mentality that drew rightful comparisons with the mighty Virender Sehwag, Tamim took the attitude that all bowlers were there to be destroyed, irrespective of method or reputation. Though his highest score of 151 came against India at Dhaka back in January, his finest performances were reserved for an England attack that put all other opponents in their pockets during a remarkable and unbeaten 18 months," the magazine wrote in its citation for the batsman".
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