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Cricket News November 2006

ICC Awards 2006

Ponting player of the Year

Nov 03, 2006

Australia's captain Ricky Ponting picked up both major honours at the annual ICC Awards in Mumbai being named Player of the Year and Test Player of the Year. Ponting was also named on both the ICC ODI and Test Teams of the Year.

Australia's Michael Hussey was the winner of the ODI Player of the Year beating Ponting, India's Yuvraj Singh and Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene. Hussey played 25 ODIs and scored 769 runs at an average of 64.80 during the voting period

Jayawardene was named Captain of the Year ahead of Ponting, Michael Vaughan, England's Ashes-winning skipper, and India's captain Rahul Dravid.

Dravid was named Captain of the World Test Team of the Year. Six teams were represented in the 12-man line-up, with Ponting, Andrew Flintoff, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath retained from the 2005 team.
Jayawardene was named the Captain of the ODI Team of the Year in which 12 players from five countries figured. Only three players - Adam Gilchrist, Flintoff and Andrew Symonds - were retained from the Year in 2005. Gilchrist and Flintoff also appeared in the 2004 line-up.

England batsman Ian Bell was picked as as Emerging Player of the Year while Australia's captain Karen Rolton won the inaugural Women's Player of the Year award and Simon Taufel was named Umpire of the Year for the third successive time.
The England team won the Spirit of Cricket Award for the second year running.
The winners were selected by a five-man selection panel consisting of Sunil Gavaskar, Ian Healy, Arjuna Ranatunga, Waqar Younis and Allan Donald.

ICC Champions Trophy 2006

Group A Table
Team	M	W	L	NR	Pts
Australia +0.537	3	2	1	0	4
West Indies +0.009	3	2	1	0	4
India +0.488	3	1	2	0	2
England -1.044	3	1	2	0	2

Group B Table
Team	M	W	L	NR	Pts
South Africa +0.767	3	2	1	0	4
New Zealand +0.572	3	2	1	0	4
Sri Lanka -0.195	3	1	2	0	2
Pakistan -1.107	3	1	2	0	2

Champions Trophy 2006 Main round Group A Matches
Team \ vs
West Indies	-	West Indies won by 3 wickets MOM: S Chanderpaul	West Indies won by 10 runs MOM: Runako Morton	England won by 3 wickets MOM: Chris Gayle
India	West Indies won by 3 wickets MOM: S Chanderpaul	-	Australia won by 6 wkts MOM: Damien Martyn	India won by 4 Wickets MOM: Munaf Patel
Australia	West Indies won by 10 runs MOM: Runako Morton	Australia won by 6 wkts MOM: Damien Martyn	-	Australia won by 6 wickets MOM: Damien Martyn
England	England won by 3 wickets MOM: Chris Gayle	India won by 4 Wickets MOM: Munaf Patel	Australia won by 6 wickets MOM: Damien Martyn	-

Champions Trophy 2006 Main round Group B Matches
Team \ vs
New Zealand	-	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets MOM: Muttiah Muralitharan	New Zealand won by 51 runs MOM: Stephen Fleming	New Zealand won by 87 runs MOM: Stephen Fleming
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets MOM: Muttiah Muralitharan	-	Pakistan won by 4 wickets MOM: Abdul Razzaq	South Africa won by 78 runs MOM: Shaun Pollock
Pakistan	New Zealand won by 51 runs MOM: Stephen Fleming	Pakistan won by 4 wickets MOM: Abdul Razzaq	-	South Africa won by 124 runs MOM: Makhaya Ntini
South Africa	New Zealand won by 87 runs MOM: Stephen Fleming	South Africa won by 78 runs MOM: Shaun Pollock	South Africa won by 124 runs MOM: Makhaya Ntini	-