CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 1:15 pm

Emerging Player this year is the Young Player of the Year of 2015, the genuinely quick, dependably mature 21 year old, KAGISO RABADA of South Africa. In 2016:

Nine Tests, 46 wickets at 23.3 with a thirteen wicket haul in Centurion against England. His strike rate of 36.6 is the best in Tests for the year.

Fifteen ODIs, with 22 wickets at just under 30.

Let's hope he doesn't end up at Hampshire just yet.

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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:21 pm

Young Player of the Year.

Well done to Young Player of 2015, Kagiso Rabada, for becoming the Emerging Player of 2016. His successor is considerably junior to the boy from Johannesburg. MEHEDI HASAN made his Test debut in Chittagong in October, still eighteen. Earlier in 2016, he led Bangladesh to their first Under 19 World Cup semi final, where he was more of a batting all rounder. In his debut series for the senior team he made a big impression as his country's leading spinner with 19 (out of 40) wickets at under 16. He was Player of the Series as Bangladesh beat England in a Test for the first time. Couldn't buy a run with the bat though....

Associates Player of the Year.

And Mehedi is in turn senior to the Associates winner this year. RASHID KHAN, a mature looking seventeen year old from Nangarhar, picked up votes in the Young Player of the Year category, but was a strong winner for the Associates award. All three nominated players were from Afghanistan, with Mohammad Shahzad and Mohammad Nabi also scoring. Leg spinner Rashid only made his international debut in late 2015; over the last year, against good opposition (Scotland, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Bangladesh), he took 22 wickets in 12 ODIs averaging under 20. His T20 international record was also superb. It'll be great to see him at the ICC Champions Trophy in England this summer.

Oh. Or the next World Cup then.

Oh.

Rashid also hit a fifty and took 12 wickets (for 122) in an unofficial Test against England Lions in December; his first class debut. At seventeen!
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:26 pm

Interval now until the main awards tonight. CMS voters wishing to attend should arrive early, to secure seats either at the Giles Clarke table or the Kevin Pietersen table.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:31 pm

Correction, not all Associate nation nominations were from Afghanistan. Paras Khadza of Nepal also received a vote. Rashid Khan was a clear winner though.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:04 pm

Three T20 international players of the year.

Twelve months ago we welcomed onto our imaginary podium three stars of the T20 game, in Chris Gayle, David Wiese and F. du Plessis. Now we have three new stars of the shortest game to present.

In third place, is unorthodox left armer MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN whose entire T20 international season consisted of the Asia Cup and the WCT20 early in the year before suffering injury problems. But he broke though on the world stage as a specialist death bowler, culminating in 5-22 against New Zealand in the World Cup group stage.

In second place is GLENN MAXWELL, whose big statement was his 65 ball 145 in Pallekele against Sri Lanka as Australia beat the highest team score in a T20 international (263-3). Maxwell's hitting gave him easily the highest strike rate of any of the year's heaviest scorers.

And polling first in the format is VIRAT KOHLI, top scorer in T20s in the year, and averaging a phenomenal 107 and hardly ever failing; the main impediment to his astonishing bounty wasn't as much the opposition bowlers as the game being already won.


Best T20 International of 2016.

Two games stood out for voters, both from the T20 World Cup. England's highest ever World Cup run chase of 230 against South Africa in a Group 1 game in Mumbai. But the popular winner was the final when WEST INDIES BEAT ENGLAND in Kolkota to take the trophy, thanks to Andre Russell, Samuel Badree, Marlon Samuel... But most spectacularly, Carlos Brathwaite's ten ball 34 at the death, with four sixes off four balls from Ben Stokes stealing the cup but leaving two balls unused.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby bigfluffylemon » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:08 pm

Great stuff AC.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:09 pm

Ah ha! I see someone on the KP table had a couple of pounds on a West Indies v England win!
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:19 pm

For the next part of the evening we're going to concentrate on the fifty overs game. Probably the story of the year was England's improvement under Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss as many sides went through a period of rebuilding in the midpoint between World Cups. But there were some stunning individual performances, in a year when batters caught the eye most often and most impressively. It was a hard year for the bowlers, particularly pace bowlers. And especially anyone who had to bowl in the ever expanding death overs. And the poll for the five best ODI players is dominated by the big hitters this year.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby rich1uk » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:42 pm

AC auditioning to take over from Lineker as the host of next years SPOTY
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:12 pm

Fifth in the vote is STEVE SMITH, of Australia, and it is indicative of how dominant the bat has been that the Australian captain should score well over a thousand runs at an average of over 50 and a strike rate of 90, yet finish at the lower end of the polling. Smith's unorthodoxy was often his strength, though he could clear the rope pretty well too.

MITCH STARC polled fourth and is our only bowler. Clearly now the premier pace bowler in ODIs, though kept relatively fresh last year by the Australians. His economy rate of 4.5 is a throwback to the days before the big bats, and a strike rate of 25 is the best of anyone with 20 wickets. He's one of the great end-of-innings bowlers of any era and probably Australia's most valuable and dependable player.

With the second/third most votes we have tie from two openers with similar stats:

Batter/keeper QUINTON DE KOCK whose pasting of the Australians at Centurion was one of the most brutal ODI innings ever. QDK has a look of a head boy, which the occasional sporting of a beard does little to dispel. But he truly graduated as an ODI batter this year.

But I'm going to place DAVID WARNER just ahead of him, because his record of seven centuries in a calendar year is a landmark achievement. Warner scored 1388 runs at the top of the order at a strike rate of 105. Then to add to that the consistency of posting hundreds makes him a sensational ODI player. Only Tendulkar can beat the number of tons in a year (nine in 1998), but in nine games more.

Even against such competition, the leading candidate doesn't feel at all contentious (de Kock and Warner received a vote fewer each). The top polling ODI cricketer of 2016 is new India captain VIRAT KOHLI who has reached his peak in the last twelve months. It wasn't the best year for India in ODIs (W4, L6 against top nine sides) but Kohli averaged 92.4 at a run a ball in his ten ODIs and seemed unstoppable.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:13 pm

rich1uk wrote:AC auditioning to take over from Lineker as the host of next years SPOTY


I said if England ever scored over 400 in an ODI, I'd type out the yearly awards in my pants...
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:17 pm

Time to recharge our cups with tea.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:22 pm

I compared Wee Davie to the Little Master there in an effort to stimulate a spurt of new membership.
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby rich1uk » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:29 pm

Arthur Crabtree wrote:
rich1uk wrote:AC auditioning to take over from Lineker as the host of next years SPOTY


I said if England ever scored over 400 in an ODI, I'd type out the yearly awards in my pants...


so just a normal friday night then ;)
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Re: CMS CRICKET AWARDS 2016

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:40 pm

Best ODI of the Year.

The winner by a landslide was the tie between ENGLAND AND SRI LANKA AT TRENT BRIDGE. Of course a tie is going to be nerve shredding and memorable, but it was the way this game swung that made it so fascinating. At the interval, Sri Lanka had posted what seemed a slightly under par, nondescript score of 286-9, most notable for Seekkuge Prasanna's disorientating 59 from 29 balls after a slow start. In reply, England were 86-6 when Jos Buttler (93) and Chris Woakes (95*) combined for 138 runs, the second highest seventh wicket stand in an ODI. When Buttler was out (to Prasanna), Woakes kept on hitting until England needed 52 off 26, then 30 off two overs). Liam Plunkett hit 22 off 11 balls at the end, and hit the final ball of the innings off Nuwan Pradeep for six, to tie.

Unbelievable.


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