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Ponting is Ceat cricketer of the year

Ricky Ponting won the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year (2005-06) award, while his highly successful Australian team won the Team of the Year award.

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MUMBAI: Ricky Ponting won the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year (2005-06) award, while his highly successful Australian team won the Team of the Year award.
 
Australia made a clean sweep of the international rating awards when Mike Hussey edged out India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni to clinch the Debutant of the Year award carrying, it was announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
 
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, the adjudicator for the awards, said the Indian players had a good chance of claiming next year's honours as the Australians were taking a three-month break from cricket and would be seen in action only from the October 7-November 5 ICC Champions Trophy.
 
For the first time since its inception a decade ago, the ratings have been expanded to include Indian domestic cricket, and specifically the performance of players in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group.
 
Mumbai all-rounder Ramesh Powar is the Ceat Domestic Cricketer of the Year.
 
Tamil Nadu's S Badrinath won the corresponding best batsman award while top honours for the best bowler and most promising youngster were claimed by Uttar Pradesh's Praveen Kumar.
 
Ratings domestic XI: W Jaffer, D Mongia, S Badrinath, A Muzumdar, J Martin, V Samant, R Powar, S Trivedi, Praveen Kumar, Joginder Sharma and S Lahiri.
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