Indian cricketers dominated the ICC awards function at Johannesburg yesterday with both Tests and one-day individual awards coming their way besides having a strong presence in the test and ODI teams of the year. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was not present at the glittering awards ceremony, was named ODI Player of the Year for the second time in a row while also featuring in both Tests and one-day icc World Teams of the Year both as wicketkeeper and captain of the sides. Young Gautam Gambhir also covered himself in glory by picking up the Best Test Player of Year Award, besides also featuring in the World Test Team of the Year. Besides Dhoni and Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh, as 12th man, also featured in the World Test Team of the Year. The World ODI Team of the Year has three Indians with Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh being the other two besides Dhoni. However, the most coveted Cricketer of Year Award for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy went to Australian Mitchell Johnson. During the voting period of August 13, 2008 to August 24, 2009, the 27-year-old Johnson played 17 Test matches, taking 80 wickets, which was easily the highest number by any Test bowler in the period. Johnson follows in the footsteps of India`s Rahul Dravid (2004), Andrew Flintoff of England and South Africa`s Jacques Kallis (joint winners in 2005), Ricky Ponting of Australia (2006 and 2007) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008) to take the top award. The selection panel for the awards was chaired by former West Indian captain Clive Lloyd. Other members of the panel included Anil Kumble (India), Bob Taylor (England), Mudassar Nazar (Pakistan) and Stephen Fleming (New Zealand). Pakistani Aleem Dar won ICC Umpire of the Year award and broke the monopoly of Australian Simon Taufel who had been the winner of the award since its inception in 2004. The Women Cricketer of Year Award went to Claire Taylor England. ICC Test team of the Year: M.S. Dhoni (capt.), G. Gambhir, A. Strauss, A.B. de Villiers, S. Tendulkar, T. Samaraweera, M. Clarke, Shakib-ul-Hasan, M. Johnson, S. Broad, and D. Steyn: 12th man: Harbhajan Singh. ICC ODI team of the Year: M.S. Dhoni (capt.), Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yuvraj Singh, Martin Guptill, Andrew Flintoff, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis and Umar Gul: 12th man: Thilan Thushara. PHOTO: Winners of the ICC Awards 2008-09 at Johannesburg yesterday