Dubai: India's ODI captain MS Dhoni leads his country's charge in this year's shortlists for the LG ICC Awards 2008 as he is one of the four Indian players who have a chance of taking home a prize from cricket's night of nights.

Also nominated are Sachin Tendulkar (ODI Player of the Year), fast bowler Ishant Sharma (Emerging Player of the Year) and Yuvraj Singh (T20I Performance of the Year, to mark his six sixes against England in Durban last September).

Ishant faces tough competition in the Emerging Player category with Sri Lanka's mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis, England all-rounder Stuart Broad and South African fast bowler Morne Morkel, also vying for the trophy.

In the T20 International Performance of the Year, Dhoni and Yuvraj are up against Chris Gayle of the West Indies and Australia's Brett Lee.

This year's LG ICC Awards includes eight individual prizes also, including a new one for the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Mahela Jayawardene and Dale Steyn may well be in for a fruitful time in Dubai.

Each player is nominated in both the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year categories in the LG ICC Awards 2008.

The other nominee for the Cricketer of the Year prize is Graeme Smith, while Jacques Kallis is a further nominee in the Test category.

The shortlists for the LG ICC Awards 2008 are as follows:

Cricketer of the Year

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Mahela Jayawardena
Graeme Smith
Dale Steyn

Test Player of the Year

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Mahela Jayawardena
Jacques Kallis
Dale Steyn

ODI Player of the Year

Nathan Bracken
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Sachin Tendulkar
Mohammad Yousuf

Emerging Player of the Year

Stuart Broad
Ajantha Mendis
Morne Morkel
Ishant Sharma

Associate Player of the Year

Ryan ten Doeschate
Alex Obanda
Niall O'Brien
Thomas Odoyo

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year

Chris Gayle
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Brett Lee
Yuvraj Singh

Women's Player of the Year

Nicola Browne
Charlotte Edwards
Lisa Sthalekar
Claire Taylor

Spirit of Cricket

Bangladesh
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
West Indies

Umpire of the Year

Mark Benson
Aleem Dar
Steve Davis
Rudi Koertzen
Simon Taufel