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The 2008 ICC Awards were held on 10 September 2008 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Previous events were held in London ( 2004 ), Sydney ( 2005 ), Mumbai ( 2006 ) and Johannesburg ( 2007 ). [ 1 ] The ICC had been hosting ICC Awards since 2004 and was into its fifth year.
The first Cricket World Cup was held in 1975 and then every four years since. The tournament was usually played by full ICC member nations. The ICC conceived the idea of the Champions Trophy – a short cricket tournament to raise funds for the development of the game in non-test playing countries, with the first two tournaments being held in Bangladesh and Kenya.
The 2008–09 international cricket season was between September 2008 and March 2009. [1] The season saw the security concerns for cricket in Pakistan reach a pinnacle. The ICC Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in Pakistan in September 2008, was postponed to 2009 after five of the participating nations refused to send their teams for the event. [2]
The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International (ODI) tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC), [4] [5] and is considered the second most significant cricket tournament after the World Cup. [6] [7] Originally inaugurated as the "ICC Knock Out Trophy" in 1998, the tournament has been organised every two or three years ...
In January 2021, the ICC introduced "Player of the Month" awards to recognise cricketers, male and female, that performed best across all forms of international cricket each month. Nominees and winners are determined by an ICC panel of ex-players and journalists, with a public vote having a 10% contribution to the final results. [61] [62] [63]
The 2011 edition of the tournament was brought forward to 2010 to replace the ICC Champions Trophy. This scheduling bottleneck was caused after the 5th edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan in 2008, was delayed and shifted to South Africa in 2009 due to security concerns. The Champions Trophy was converted into ...
Originally, the tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan in 2008, but due to security concerns it shifted to South Africa. [3] It was the sixth ICC Champions Trophy, and was previously known as the ICC Knock-out. Two teams from two groups of four qualified for the semi-finals, and the final was staged in Centurion on 5 October.
With his time representing Australia, Hussey won multiple ICC titles with the team: the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, and the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. However, he had a highly prolific international career, being the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world in 2006. [ 2 ]