Afridi, Gul nominated for ‘T 20 best performance of the year’

The ICC has short listed the nominations for the annual awards here on Tuesday.

From Pakistan, Saeed Ajmal and Sana Mir have been dropped from the list while Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul has been included in the list for Twenty20 cricket only whereas he was dropped from the ODI list.

The selection panel of the International Cricket Council (ICC) has short listed the long list which was earlier announced for the ICC Awards 2008 and 2009.

Name of any Pakistani cricketer was already not included in the lists of ‘Player of the Year’ and ‘Test Player of the Year’ while the name of fast bowler Umar Gul was excluded from the One-day list and Saeed Ajmal from the list of Twenty20 cricket.

Pakistan’s Sana Mir has also been excluded from the list of ‘Women’s Player of the Year’.

However, names of Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul remained included in the Twenty20 list along with Tillekaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka and Chris Gayle of the West Indies.

Umpires list has also been short listed and only four umpires were nominated. This list also includes two umpires from Pakistan – Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf.

The ICC Award ceremony will be held on October 1 during the Champions Trophy in South Africa.