Viru, Sachin win ESPNcricinfo Awards

Virender Sehwag was voted for the best individual Test batting performance in the third annual ESPNcricinfo Awards.

Sachin Tendulkar was picked for the ODI honour for 2009.

The third batting award, for Twenty20 cricket, went to West Indies captain Chris Gayle.

West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor bagged the Test bowling award, while the bowling honours in the ODI and Twenty20 formats went to two Pakistanis, Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul, respectively.

Gautam Gambhir was chosen as the batsman of the year 2009 as well as Test batsman of the year for Statsguru Awards while Sehwag was the ODI batsman of 2009.

The panel for the jury award consists of Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Chappell, Sanjay Manjrekar, Harsha Bhogle, Daryll Cullinan, David Lloyd, Tony Greig, Peter Roebuck and Ramiz Raja and Cricinfo's senior editors.

Jury Awards, 2009:

Test Batting Performance of the Year
Virender Sehwag, 293 v Sri Lanka, third Test, Mumbai

Test Bowling Performance of the Year
Jerome Taylor, 5 for 11 v England, first Test, Kingston

ODI Batting Performance of the Year
Sachin Tendulkar, 175 v Australia, fifth ODI, Hyderabad

ODI Bowling Performance of the Year
Shahid Afridi, 6 for 38 v Australia, first ODI, Dubai

Twenty20 Batting Performance of the Year
Chris Gayle, 88 v Australia, World Twenty20, London

Twenty20 Bowling Performance of the Year
Umar Gul, 5 for 6 v New Zealand, World Twenty20, London


Statsguru Awards, 2009:


· Batsman of the Year: Gautam Gambhir, India

· Bowler of the Year: Stuart Broad, England


Test

· Test batsman of the year: Gautam Gambhir, India

· Most consistent batsman of the year: Shane Watson, Australia

· Batting pair of the year (opening - at least 8 innings): Simon Katich & Shane Watson, Australia

· Batting pair of the year (others - at least 8 innings): Mahela Jayawardene & Thilan Samaraweera, Sri Lanka

· Highest percent of team runs: Ross Taylor, New Zealand

· Most runs in wins: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka

· Most percentage runs in boundaries: Ross Taylor, New Zealand

· Highest strike rate: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka

· Best strike-rate (cut off 30 wickets): Mitchell Johnson, Australia

· Best Test bowler (cut-off 30 wickets against top teams): Mitchell Johnson, Australia

· Best spinner (cut-off 30 wickets): Graeme Swann, England

· Best third and fourth-innings bowler (cut-off 15 wickets): Harbhajan Singh, India


ODI

· ODI batsman of the year: Virender Sehwag, India

· ODI bowler of the year: James Anderson, England

· Highest strike-rate: Virender Sehwag, India

· Batting pairs of the year (at least eight innings, opening): Brendon McCullum & Jesse Ryder, New Zealand

· Batting pairs of the year (at least eight innings, other pairs): MS Dhoni & Suresh Raina, India

· Highest percentage runs scored in boundaries: Virender Sehwag, India

· Lowest dot ball percentage: Michael Hussey, Australian

· Highest percentage of team runs scored: AB de Villiers, South Africa

· Highest percent of team runs in wins (cut-off 400 runs in wins): AB de Villiers, South Africa


Team

· Most dominant, Tests: India

· Most dominant, ODIs: India

· Most disciplined, ODIs: New Zealand

source : http://www.cricinfo.com/awards2009/content/current/story/448835.html