The glittering ceremony kicked off with the Emerging Player of the Year Award, which was handed to Sri Lanka's spin sensation Ajantha Mendis, who pipped fellow newcomers Ishant Sharma, StuartBroad and Morne Morkel.
India's one-day and Twenty20 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his deputy Yuvraj Singh bagged top honours at the LG ICC Awards on Wednesday.
Dhoni was named the ICC's ODI Player of the Year, while Yuvraj was rewarded for his superb showing in the Twenty20 World Cup as he was awarded with the newly instituted International Twenty20 Performance of the Year.
The Indian one-day captain was named ahead of compatriot Sachin Tendulkar for the ODI honour.
South African fast bowler Dale Steyn was named the Test Cricketer of the Year for his outstanding showing in the longer version of the game, while West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul bagged the Cricketer of the Year Award after a scintillating season with the bat in both Tests and one-dayers.
Ryan ten Doeschate of The Netherlands was conferred with the Associate Player of the Year Award, while Simon Taufel picked up the Umpire of the Year Award.
Sri Lanka were also rewarded for their discipline on the field by receiving the ICC's Spirit of Cricket Award, while the cricket's world governing body also named star-studded ODI and Test teams of the year. Virender Sehwag was the only Indian name in the Test line-up, while Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh were named in the ODI side.
- Emerging Player of the Year: Ajantha Mendis
- Associate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate of Netherlands
- Spirit of Cricket Award: Sri Lanka
- Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel
- International T20 Performance of the Year: Yuvraj Singh
- ICC Test Team of the Year: Greame Smith, Virender Sehwag, Mahela Jayawardene, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kevin Pietersen, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara, Brett Lee, Ryan Sidebottom, Dale Steyn, Muttiah Muralitharan, Stuart Clark.
- ODI Player of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Test Player of the Year: Dale Steyn
- Cricketer of the Year Award: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- ICC ODI Team of the Year: Hershelle Gibbs, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Younis Khan, Andrew Symonds, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Farveez Maharoof, Daniel Vettori, Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Bracken, 12th man: Salman Butt.
