The International Village Cricketer Awards

The Village Cricketer has decided that there is no time like the present for making awards and today calls on bloggers, readers and cricket tragics from around the world to make nominations for the first ever ‘The International Village Cricketer Awards’. You are invited to make your nominations through the medium of comments to this blog, with reference to any international cricketer, team or moment from 2007. Please also include your reasons for nominating.

The categories for nomination are as follows (click here for a guide on what constitutes village behaviour):

Village Cricketer of the Year
Most Village Emerging Player of the Year
Village Captain of the Year
Spirit of Village Award (to be awarded to the most village Test playing nation)
Most Village Non-Test Playing Cricketing Nation
World Village Team of the Year (please nominate players, from any country, to be named in this international XI)
International Village Moment of the Year

Please note that TVC reserves the right to remove any comments that are overly offensive because it can’t afford to be sued.

thevillagecricketer Says:

February 6, 2008 at 11:36 am

OK, so I’ll get things started:

Village Cricketer of the Year: Nominate Andrew Flintoff. Getting hammered in the cricket in Oz, falling off a pedalo in the World Cup, and being injured for the entire year.

Spirit of Village Award: Nominate Pakistan, for being rubbish in the world cup and getting beaten by Ireland.

republiquecricket Says:

February 6, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Village Cricketer: Runako Morton. How this fella keeps getting in to the West Indies side is beyond me. I think it’s probably the fact that he’s a bit handy with a knife, and has scared the pants off of everyone..

February 6, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Soulberry has made the following nomination:

My nomination for the award has to be Ishant Sharma who debuted for India within the year.

He’s from Delhi, my home, and bowls for the team I follow.

The gangly young fellow went in to bat in the just concluded test series in Australia with two left gloves!

And he’s got the village cricketer looks too…notice the goofy smile of his. There are characters like that on every cricket ground around the world. So he’s my nominee – Ishant Sharma, Delhi and India.

By the way, he didn’t notice the two left gloves which many noticed on camera. That’s another point in favour.

February 6, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Having just witnessed Collingwood, Cook, Anderson and Broad discussing beauty tips online (see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3266354.ece) all four are nominated for Village Moment. Thanks to Miss Field’s Cricket Blog (http://miss-field.blogspot.com) for pointing it out.

Uncle J rod Says:

February 7, 2008 at 12:55 am

Village player of the year – brad hogg, gets picked cause the other players think he’s a nice guy.

Emerging village player – chris cumming the kiwi who played a hookshot off his face.

village moment of the year – world cup final played in dark

most village non test playing nation – canada, their captain taking 17 wickets and making most of their runs in one game. John Davison i believe his name is.

village captain of year – daniel vettori for his stunning debut test series

all village XI nominees

rawl lewis, andre nel, ravi bopara, and shane watson.