Sachin Tendulkar won the Sir Garfield Sobers ICC Cricketer of the Year award for the first time since the awards were first installed. This was one of the awards that were announced in the ICC annual awards held in Bangalore on October 6. 
Tendulkar was nominated for the award along with Hashim Amla, Virender Sehwag and Graeme Swann and nudged off the competition to win the award. Previously, this award has been won by the likes of Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff and Jacques Kallis (2005), Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008) and Mitchell Johnson (2009).
India had more good news when Sehwag was awarded the Test Cricketer of the Year India for the period in which he scored almost 1300 runs at an average of 85.5. AB de Villiers won the ODI Cricketer of the Year award.
Amongst the other awards, England pace bowler Steven Finn won the ICC Emerging Player of the Year award, while Brendon McCullum was awarded for his T20 innings of 116 against Australia.
The Test and the ODI teams were also named, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named the captain of the Test team of the year and Ponting was named to lead the ODI team of the year.
Aleem Dar won the David Shepherd Umpire of the Year award for the second year in running.