ESPNcricinfo Awards 2009 readers choice: Umar Gul overwhelming favourite in readers' voting
Cricinfo readers agreed with the jury in all but one category
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Umar Gul got 69% of the votes polled for his five-for in the World Twenty20 • Tom Shaw/Getty Images
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%) |