India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has became only the second Indian
after Sachin Tendulkar to receive International Cricket Council's (ICC)
LG People's Choice Award, the game's apex body declared on Tuesday Dec 03,2013
Overall, M S Dhoni is the third player to receive this award after -
India's Sachin Tendulkar (2011) and
Sri Lanka veteran Kumar Sangakkara (2012)
The5 players nominated by the panel using the criteria set out by LG and the ICC were -
- India's M S Dhoni
- Australia's Michael Clarke
- England's Alastair Cook
- India's Virat Kohli, and
- South Africa's AB de Villiers
The award, which was introduced at the 2010 LG ICC Awards in Bengaluru,
was voted upon by close to 188,000 cricket fans around the world. The
short-list was nominated by an elite panel of cricket experts, which is
headed by ICC Cricket Committee Chairman and former India captain Anil
Kumble.
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