India\u2019s Sachin Tendulkar along with Sri Lanka\u2019s Kumar Sangakkara, South Africa\u2019s duo Vernon Philander and Jacques Kallis and England\u2019s James Anderson have been nominated for this year\u2019s LG ICC People\u2019s Choice Award.<\/p>\n
Both Sangakkara (2011) and Tendulkar (2010) have won the LG People\u2019s Choice Award in the past.<\/p>\n
For the third time in the history of the LG ICC Awards, fans will have the opportunity to decide the winner, this time by accessing an application on the ICC\u2019s official Facebook page: www.facebook.com\/cricketicc. Voting will be open until midnight UAE time on 31 August with the winner to be announced on 15 September at the LG ICC Awards in Colombo.<\/p>\n
The short list, nominated by an elite panel of cricket experts headed by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, along with Sri Lanka\u2019s Marvan Atapattu, England\u2019s Clare Connor, West Indies Carl Hooper and Australia\u2019s Tom Moody was selected using criteria set out by LG and the ICC. This dictated that the nominees should have displayed some of the attributes regarded by LG as in line with their corporate qualities such as innovation, dynamism, strength in decision-making, performing well under pressure and executing a plan to distinction.<\/p>\n
ICC Chief Executive David Richardson said: \u201cThis is the third year of the LG People\u2019s Choice Award and it is proving to be hugely popular among fans across the globe and continues to highlight how much voting for their cricketing heroes means.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year sees the two past winners nominated again alongside three other extremely deserving candidates, I\u2019m sure the public will choose wisely as to who will be the 2012 winner of this prestigious award at the LG ICC Awards 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s Sachin Tendulkar along with Sri Lanka\u2019s Kumar Sangakkara, South Africa\u2019s duo Vernon Philander and Jacques Kallis and England\u2019s James Anderson have been nominated for this year\u2019s LG ICC People\u2019s Choice Award. Both Sangakkara (2011) and Tendulkar (2010) have won the LG People\u2019s Choice Award in the past. For the third time in the history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1000,1459,4961,668,556],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-icc","tag-jacques-kallis","tag-james-anderson","tag-kumar-sangakkara","tag-sachin-tendulkar"],"yoast_head":"\n