2006 Awards
The third ICC awards ceremony was held in Mumbai, India on 3 November 2006, during the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy. The judging period was from 1 August 2005 to 8 August 2006, thus including three of the four Tests between Pakistan and England, and the Test series between South Africa and Sri Lanka. For the first time, there was an award of Women's Cricketer of the Year and Captain of the Year.
Award winners were:
- Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
- Test Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
- ODI Player of the Year: Micheal Hussey (Australia)
- Emerging Player of the Year: Ian Bell (England)
- Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
- Captain of the Year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
- Women's Cricketer of the Year: Karen Rolton (Australia)
- Spirit of Cricket: England
- World Test XI: Matthew Hayden (Aus), Michael Hussey (Aus), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Rahul Dravid (Ind, captain), Mohammad Yousuf (Pak), Kumar Sangakkara (SL, wicket-keeper), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Shane Warne (Aus), Makhaya Ntini (SA), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Glenn McGrath (Aus), 12th man: Brett Lee (Aus)
- World one-day XI: Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Mahela Jayawardene (SL, captain), Yuvraj Singh (Ind), Michael Hussey (Aus), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Irfan Pathan (Ind), Brett Lee (Aus), Shane Bond (NZ), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), 12th man: Andrew Symonds (Aus)
- Nominees for 2006
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