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Gul overwhelming favourite in readers' voting
Cricinfo readers agreed with the jury in all but one category
Cricinfo staff
February 19, 2010
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Cricinfo readers concurred with the jury for the 2009 ESPNcricinfo Awards in all but one category. Virender Sehwag and Jerome Taylor took the prizes for Test batting and bowling performances of the year in the Readers Choice segment. So did Shahid Afridi and Sachin Tendulkar in ODI bowling and batting and Umar Gul in Twenty20 bowling for his demolition of England at The Oval.
Sehwag got 35% of the votes polled for his 293 in Mumbai. Taylor, a less unanimous choice, got 19% for his 5 for 11, which demolished England for 51 in Jamaica. He beat Shane Bond's Dunedin performance against Pakistan (18%) to the finish line by a slim margin.
The only category where the readers differed with the jury was Twenty20 batting. While the jury picked Chris Gayle's 88 against Australia in the World Twenty20, 38% of readers chose Tillakaratne Dilshan's unbeaten 96, which carried Sri Lanka to the final of the tournament.
The most overwhelming winners were Gul (69%), for his five-for in the World Twenty20 against New Zealand, followed closely by Sachin Tendulkar (56%) for his 175 in a losing cause in the fifth ODI against Australia in Hyderabad.
| Test Batting | Test Bowling | ODI Batting | ODI Bowling | Twenty20 Batting | Twenty20 Bowling |
| Virender Sehwag (35%) | Jerome Taylor (19%) | Sachin Tendulkar (56%) | Shahid Afridi (44%) (Dubai) | Tillakaratne Dilshan (38%) (World Twenty20) | Umar Gul (69%) (World Twenty20) |
| Gautam Gambhir (17%) | Shane Bond (18%) | Shoaib Malik (16%) | Harbhajan Singh (17%) | Shahid Afridi (27%) (World Twenty20) | Umar Gul (13%) (Dubai) |
| Umar Akmal (17%) | Zaheer Khan (16%) | Tillakaratne Dilshan (7%) | Doug Bollinger (12%) | Chris Gayle (24%) | Ajantha Mendis (9%) |
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Sambit Bal Editor, Cricinfo
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Geoff Boycott Former England batsman, commentator
Ian Chappell Former Australia captain, commentator, columnist
Daryll Cullinan Former South Africa batsman, commentator
Peter English Australasia editor, Cricinfo
Tony Greig Former England captain, commentator
David Lloyd Former England coach, commentator
Sanjay Manjrekar Former India batsman, commentator
Andrew Miller UK editor, Cricinfo
Dileep Premachandran Associate editor, Cricinfo
Ramiz Raja Former Pakistan batsman and captain, commentator
Peter Roebuck Former Somerset captain, writer
Osman Samiuddin Pakistan editor, Cricinfo
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The Statsguru Awards go beyond runs scored, wickets taken or batting average, and are the result of detailed data analyses of performances in 2009. Which batsman played more consistently than any other? Who got the highest percentage of his runs in boundaries? Who was the best bowler in the third and fourth innings? Cricinfo's ball-by-ball data analysis of every international game has answers to these queries and more. The Statsguru Awards are based on these stats. Among this year's big winners: Virender Sehwag, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mitchell Johnson. Full list of winners here
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