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One of the senior Pakistani batsmen Mohammad Yousuf (born 27, August 1974) has already flown to India to play the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) in spite of his selection on 3 November Monday in the national team for three one-day international matches against West Indies in Abu Dhabi this month.

Here on Monday, in a news conference Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) operations director Zakir Khan said, “He (Yousuf) didn’t tell us he was going to India. We heard about it ourselves two hours back. We called up his home and his wife has confirmed he has gone to India to play in the ICL.”  He added, Yousuf would be banned from all cricket in Pakistan if he played in the Twenty20 competition.

On the other hand, The ICL authority already filed a legal case against this Pakistani star batsman with an arbitrator in Mumbai, India for breach of contract after he (Yousuf) first signed for them in August of 2007 and after that returned his advance payment and decided to get an agreement in the officially approved Indian Premier League. But that case is still pending.

The news, Yousuf has joined ICL, shock to Pakistani cricket fans and well-wishers since just a few hours earlier Yousuf was named in the national team squad to play three one-day internationals. He has been served for Pakistan National Cricket Team since 1998.

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