As part of the ICC's celebration of the game's heroes and role models, it stages the annual LG ICC Awards ceremony to recognise the major individual and team achievements in world cricket.The ceremony features 10 individual awards that over the years have honoured some of the biggest names in men's and women's international cricket and will be voted upon by a strong panel of former players, respected members of the media and an elite umpire and match referee.
The LG ICC Awards ceremony is now in its eighth year and the 2011 Awards will take place in London on 12 September. The event will be staged in association with Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007 and 2009), Dubai (2008) and Bangalore (2010).
The nominations for seven of the awards will be made by a five-man ICC selection panel chaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer, former West Indies captain and Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd. The panel also includes former South Africa bowler Paul Adams, former England captain Michael Atherton, former Pakistan batsman Zaheer Abbas and former New Zealand bowler Danny Morrison. This panel will also select the ICC Test and ODI teams of the year.
The winners of six of those individual awards will be voted upon by a 25 strong panel of renowned former players, respected members of the media, and an elite umpire and an elite match referee.The seventh individual award is the LG People's Choice Award. This award will be chosen by cricket fans around the world who will get a chance to vote for their favourite player on-line from a short-list of five cricketers who will be selected by the ICC selection panel on the basis of some really innovative parameters, in sync with the values that embody brand LG
Meanwhile, the nominations for the Women's Cricketer of the Year Award will be decided by a separate 25-person voting academy featuring former players and other experts on the women's game. The Spirit of Cricket Award will be voted on by all the Full Member international captains as well as all members of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees while the Full Member captains and elite match referees will vote on the Umpire of the Year Award.
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