Allan Border Medal 2013: live blog, updates
Roar Guru By Suneer Chowdhary, 4 Feb 2013 Suneer Chowdhary is a Roar Guru
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Michael Clarke will look to make it two titles in a row at the Allan Border Medal which will be held on Monday at Melbourne.
We’ll bring you the live coverage of the action from the Allan Border Medal from 8.30 pm AEDT.
Apart from the Cricketer of the Year award, there will also be prizes for the Test player of the year, one-day international player of the year, T20 international player of the year, domestic player of the year, Bradman young cricketer of the year and the Belinda Clark Award for best female cricketer.
The cricketers and WAGs will make it to the red carpet before the votes will be counted and the winners announced. These votes will will come from fellow players, officials and journalists, who will vote for the player performances over the past 12 months.
While Clarke will be a favourite to win the award, he is only the second-highest scorer in that voting period of February 25, 2012 to January 28, 2013, behind Dave Warner. Of course he has a much better average – 61 to Warner’s 38 – and that should put him on a pedestal to win it again.
Shane Watson will be a front-runner to win the T20 cricketer of the year award after his four successive man-of-the-match awards in the World T20 apart from Clarke being favourite to make a clean sweep of the ODI and Test player of the year.
We hope to receive your opinions as the Allan Border Medal action unfolds at Melbourne.
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10:23pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:23pm | Report comment
That’s it then…here’s a recap of all the winners:
Allan Border Medal: Michael Clarke
Test Player of the Year: Michael Clarke
ODI Player of the Year: Clint McKay
T20I Player of the Year: Shane Watson
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year: Joe Burns
State Player of the Year: Phil Hughes
Belinda Clark Women’s International Cricketer of the Year: Jess Cameron
10:13pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:13pm | Report comment
Really, after the kind of year that Clarke has had, there wasn’t too much doubt about his win. And it was not even close.
Clarke tallied 198 votes, while Hussey, Watson and Warner were at 165, 165 and 148 respectively!
10:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:10pm | Report comment
And Michael Clarke has easily trumped competition from Dave Warner, Shane Watson and Michael Hussey to win the Allan Border Medal as well!
10:06pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:06pm | Report comment
Clarke’s beats off the challenge from Michael Hussey, Matthew Wade and Mitchell Johnson to scoop that Test cricketer award.
He had 22 votes in his kitty to Hussey’s 15, Wade’s 12 and Johnson’s 11.
10:04pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:04pm | Report comment
If you could, you were off the mark! Michael Clarke has won his third Test Player of the Year award at the Allan Border Medal!
It is also his second in a row.
10:02pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 10:02pm | Report comment
Kim Hughes will present the Test Player of the Year award. Can you see anyone but Michael Clarke winning this one?
9:57pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:57pm | Report comment
A rousing speech from Ricky Ponting is followed by the counting of votes to decide the Test Cricketer of the Year.
9:44pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:44pm | Report comment
Here’s Jess Cameron speaking about her award win: “Thanks everyone for the messages of support!!! Words can’t describe how I feel!!! Now to win a World Cup!!!”
9:35pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:35pm | Report comment
Of course, after a good-natured ribbing about his batting, Glenn McGrath is inducted into the Cricket Australia Hall of Fame. My surmise is that it is to do with his bowling.
9:29pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:29pm | Report comment
Here’s an interesting piece of trivia from the 2006 Allan Border Medal awards.
Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Adam Gilchrist all drew on 22 votes for the 2006 One Day Player of the Year award. On a count-back, Andrew Symonds would have been a winner but he was ruled ineligible because he was suspended for two ODIs for one of his off-field problems. There was a second count-back and Michael Hussey won the award!
9:25pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:25pm | Report comment
It’s a collection of Tony Greig photographs displayed now, celebrating his life. Greig passed away late last year after having been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier. Poignant moment.
9:18pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:18pm | Report comment
Jess Cameron, Australia’s wicket-keeper, has won the Belinda Clarke Women’s Cricketer of the Year award. She’s currently in India, playing in the World Cup…
…and would you believe it? She scored a duck in her last ODI innings as well! Whoa!
9:12pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:12pm | Report comment
Phil Hughes has won the Domestic Player of the Year award. Not too much of a surprise here given that his domestic resurrection has gone a long way in getting him an international recall.
9:10pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:10pm | Report comment
Incidentally, Shane Watson was a three-time ODI Player of the Year award winner leading up to tonight. Well done Clint!
9:08pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:08pm | Report comment
It was a very close contest for the ODI Player of the Year award. McKay had 30 votes during the voting period – February 25, 2012-January 28, 2013. Bailey and Warner ended just behind with 28 votes!
9:03pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:03pm | Report comment
The ODI Cricketer of the Year award goes to Clint McKay! Surprised?
9:02pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:02pm | Report comment
Burns wasn’t there to collect his award because of his Shield commitments. The interesting bit is that in the last List A game he played day before he got a duck!
He can well point to Maxwell for scoring a blob in yesterday’s ODI and then earning a million bucks at the IPL auction.
Talk of good luck charms!
8:56pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:56pm | Report comment
Incidentally, Watson got 42 votes for his T20 performances last year, followed by Warner who got 29 and Bailey had 16.
8:54pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:54pm | Report comment
And there is another award handed out now…
…the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year award goes to Joe Burns of Queensland.
8:46pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:46pm | Report comment
Single-handedly Watson had led the Aussies to the World T20 semi-final, winning four man-of-the-match awards in a row. Poor Bailey kept getting asked in press conferences during the tournament about the over-reliance on Watto…
…the answer to which came in the semi-final when Australia were knocked out by West Indies after Watson failed with the bat.
8:45pm
Varun said | 8:45pm | Report comment
Where is khawaja, can’t see him in the pics
8:49pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:49pm | Report comment
No mention of Usman Khawaja in the official CA release e-mail.
8:56pm
Renegade said | 8:56pm | Report comment
honestly mate the man-love with Khawaja has got to stop….good player but c’mon somethings up when your looking for him during an awards night that he has no chance of winning instead of all the frocked up girls!!
11:32pm
Sanjay said | 11:32pm | Report comment
Hehe, i am a fan of Khawaja, but i had my eyes open for the ladies, they look fantastic, this event will eventually get the same glitter as the Brownlow medal.
9:13pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 9:13pm | Report comment
As an after-thought, Queensland’s Joe Burns did not make it to the award ceremony because of first class commitments. I am assuming it was the same with Khawaja too.
8:44pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:44pm | Report comment
And what are those other awards that I was talking about?
The T20 cricketer of the year, for which Bailey, Starc, Warner and Watson were the four nominations. Don’t hold your breath here, it has to be all one-way traffic here as Watson is the winner!
8:32pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:32pm | Report comment
We are still a couple of hours away from when the awards will be announced – yep, there are other awards too – but till then I can safely say that Michael Clarke and his wife Kyly have already made it to the red carpet.
So have T20 captain and stand-in ODI skipper George Bailey, latest phenomenal Australian fast bowler James Faulkner, all-rounder Moises Henriques, opening batsmen Ed Cowan and Aaron Finch and Dave Hussey.
8:22pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:22pm | Report comment
Michael Clarke won the award last in 2012 and is a favourite to repeat that this year too. Incidentally, Clarke has also won the award in 2005 and 2009 (when he was the joint winner with Ricky Ponting).
8:17pm
Suneer Chowdhary said | 8:17pm | Report comment
Hello all and welcome to the live coverage of the Allan Border Medal night. This is 14th year of this award and the red carpet event is being held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne.