2006 ICC Awards

The 2006 ICC Awards were held on 3 November 2006 in Mumbai, India. The annual awards had been instigated in London in 2004 and in 2005 they were announced in Sydney. They were sponsored by Hyundai and conducted during the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy. For the first time, honours for both Captain of the Year and Women's Cricketer of the Year were awarded.

Selection Committee
Nominees were voted on by a 56-member academy of current and ex-players and officials from among players chosen by the ICC Selection Committee, chaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Sunil Gavaskar.

Selection Committee members:


 * 🇮🇳 Sunil Gavaskar (chairman)
 * 🇿🇦 Allan Donald
 * 🇦🇺 Ian Healy
 * 🇱🇰 Arjuna Ranatunga
 * 🇵🇰 Waqar Younis

Winners and nominees
The winners and nominees of various individual awards were:

Cricketer of the Year

 * Winner: Ricky Ponting (Aus)
 * Nominees: Shane Warne (Aus), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Michael Hussey (Aus), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Mohammad Yousuf (Pak), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Younis Khan (Pak), Monty Panesar (Eng), Brett Lee (Aus), Makhaya Ntini (SA), Adam Gilchrist (Aus)

Test Player of the Year

 * Winner: Ricky Ponting (Aus)
 * Nominees: Michael Hussey (Aus), Mohammad Yousuf (Pak), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Shane Warne (Aus), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Younis Khan (Pak), Matthew Hayden (Aus), Makhaya Ntini (SA), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Kevin Pietersen (Eng)

ODI Player of the Year

 * Winner: Michael Hussey (Aus)
 * Nominees: Ricky Ponting (Aus), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Kevin Pietersen (Eng), Mohammad Yousuf (Pak), Brett Lee (Aus), Herschelle Gibbs (SA), Shahid Afridi (Pak), Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak), Adam Gilchrist (Aus), Yuvraj Singh (Ind), Shane Bond (NZ), Irfan Pathan (Ind)

Emerging Player of the Year

 * Winner: Ian Bell (Eng)
 * Nominees: Monty Panesar (Eng), Alastair Cook (Eng), Denesh Ramdin (WI), Malinga Bandara (SL), Mohammad Asif (Pak), Upul Tharanga (SL), Shahriar Nafees (Ban)

Umpire of the Year

 * Winner: Simon Taufel (Aus)
 * Nominees: Aleem Dar (Pak), Rudi Koertzen (SA)

Captain of the Year

 * Winner: Mahela Jayawardene (SL)
 * Nominees: Rahul Dravid (Ind), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Michael Vaughan (Eng)

Women's Cricketer of the Year

 * Winner: Karen Rolton (Aus)
 * Nominees: Cathryn Fitzpatrick (Aus), Anjum Chopra (Ind), Neetu David (Ind), Claire Taylor (Eng), Katherine Brunt (Eng), Emily Drumm (NZ)

Spirit of Cricket

 * Winner: England

ICC Test Team of the Year
Rahul Dravid was selected as the captain of the Test Team of the Year. In addition to a wicket-keeper, 9 other players and a 12th man were announced as follows:


 * 🇦🇺 Matthew Hayden
 * 🇦🇺 Michael Hussey
 * 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting
 * 🇮🇳 Rahul Dravid
 * 🇵🇰 Mohammad Yousuf
 * 🇱🇰 Kumar Sangakkara (wicket-keeper)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Flintoff
 * 🇦🇺 Shane Warne
 * 🇿🇦 Makhaya Ntini
 * 🇱🇰 Muttiah Muralitharan
 * 🇦🇺 Glenn McGrath
 * 🇦🇺 Brett Lee (12th man)

ICC ODI Team of the Year
Mahela Jayawardene was selected as the captain of the ODI Team of the Year. In addition to a wicket-keeper, 9 other players and a 12th man were announced as follows:


 * 🇦🇺 Adam Gilchrist (wicket-keeper)
 * 🇮🇳 MS Dhoni
 * 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting
 * 🇱🇰 Mahela Jayawardene
 * 🇮🇳 Yuvraj Singh
 * 🇦🇺 Michael Hussey
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andrew Flintoff
 * 🇮🇳 Irfan Pathan
 * 🇦🇺 Brett Lee
 * 🇳🇿 Shane Bond
 * 🇱🇰 Muttiah Muralitharan
 * 🇦🇺 Andrew Symonds (12th man)

Cricketer of the Year

 * 🇦🇺 Michael Hussey
 * 🇱🇰 Muttiah Muralitharan
 * 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting
 * 🇵🇰 Mohammad Yousuf

Test Player of the Year

 * 🇱🇰 Muttiah Muralitharan
 * 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting
 * 🇦🇺 Shane Warne
 * 🇵🇰 Mohammad Yousuf

ODI Player of the Year

 * 🇦🇺 Michael Hussey
 * 🇱🇰 Mahela Jayawardene
 * 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting
 * 🇮🇳 Yuvraj Singh

Emerging Player of the Year

 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alastair Cook
 * 🇵🇰 Mohammad Asif
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Bell
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Monty Panesar

Women's Cricketer of the Year

 * Karen Rolton
 * Anjum Chopra
 * Katherine Brunt

Spirit of Cricket

 * 🇮🇳 India
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
 * 🇳🇿 new zealand
 * 🇱🇰 sri lanka