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International Cricket Council (ICC) declares the 2008 Oscar awards of cricket. From 2004 ICC starts their new awards giving ceremony. And they do their best for a successful ceremony. So for this, from the starting of this prize giving ceremony it creates so much interest in the mind of players and fans. Over the year cricketers and supporters are waited for the declaration of the awards. ICC gives the award on the basis of different individual performance. So players get much encouragement to play well for better performance.

The fifth ICC awards ceremony was held on 10th September 2008. According to the previous, a gorgeous ceremony organized in Dubai, U.A.E for the award declaration. Best passionately expected award, Cricketer of the year award went to West Indian batsman Shivnaraine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul bid the award from the shortlist of last year best cricketer. He fall into competition among other top performer nominees Mahela Jayawardene from Sri Lanka, South Africa’s Graeme Smith and Dale Steyn to take the top award.

As other time ICC also gives their awards for various categories such as test player of the year, ODI player of the year, emerging player of the year, and women’s player of the year etc. But in this year all of us known that a new format of cricket is started which is called Twenty20. It gets so much popularity among the fans. ICC also arranges a prize for it which is called Twenty20 international performance of the year. This award goes to the hard-hitter of India, Yuvraj Singh for his brilliant batting performance in Twenty20.

Here is a short list of ICC 2008 award winners:

• Cricketer of the Year: S Chanderpaul (West Indies)
• Test Player of the Year: Dale Steyn (South Africa)
• ODI Player of the Year: M S Dhoni (India)
• Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Yuvraj Singh (India)
• Emerging Player of the Year: Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
• Women’s Player of the Year: Charlotte Edwards (England)
• Associate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
• Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
• Spirit of Cricket: Sri Lanka

Italian football has great traditional background over the long year. They gained in their basket of success all types of predictable title. Among all only the number of world-cup title shows their capability and tradition of football. After the position of Brasil, Italian football names will come on the basis of world cup title gained. Italy gained world cup title four times. In 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006 they gained the world greatest title of football which is recognized as world cup football. Not only internationally but also they have strong football structure in all way. For this reason Italian home league produced the highest number of European cup finalists. From the starting of European cup different Italian clubs reached to the final of the competition on a record of twenty-five times. They maintain a well organized schedule for their home and international challenge.

In all home football league Italian Football league is one of the best and well famous leagues. They arrange a lot of challenging tournament in every year. Among the entire tournament Serie A is the most exciting tournament. It is a professional competition for football clubs to be found at the top rank of the Italian football league system. Serie A is officially known as the Lega Calcio Serie. It is counted as one of the best leagues in the footballing world. World greatest players are participating since a long time to today in this tournament. Even in the recent football the best players are playing in different club of Italy. Not only for the Italian player but also world every player have dream to participate in Italian club. It is a place from where players can gain fame and money both. Like the club of English premier league and Spanish league Italian football club also spend huge amount of money to get the greatest title of their home league or in the world club competition. Some time these clubs offer wondering amount of money for player transfer. For this reason world most of the best players are now appearing in the Italian football league. Recent time’s best players Kaka, Francesco Totti, Ronaldinho, David Trezeguet, Alessandro Del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon etc all are now participating in different club of Italian Serie a league.

So, Italian football is most attractive and popular since along time or traditionally. But for this you don’t think that Italian league organizer have no headache or tension about maintain the standard and achieve progress. For example, Football Italiano committee gives penalty to Guventas Club for corruption. They lose their title and they also lose their quality of playing in Serie A league as penalty. It is an ideal example to all club committee of the world.