West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul bagged the biggest award of the night-- The 2008 ICC Cricketer of the Year-- but was not there to receive it.

During the voting period, the gritty Guyanese played eight Test matches, scoring 819 runs at an average of 91.00, including three centuries and six fifties, all of which were against the top seven teams in the world.