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2007 Honour Roll |
Sports Performer of the Year - Cadel Evans
Team performance of the Year - Australian Cricket team
Coach Performance of the Year - Craig Bellamy
Young Performer of the Year - Israel Folau
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After hitting the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees Cadel Evans openly wondered when the magnitude of his epic cycling achievement would hit him.
Australia claimed an unprecedented fourth World Cup win in the West Indies with a 53-run victory over Sri Lanka in the final on April 28. It was also their third consecutive World Cup win and the team has now won 29 consecutive World Cup matches. This followed a 5-0 whitewash of the 2006-07 Ashes series, the first time either side had achieved the feat since Australia did in the 1920-21 series. The team has led the ICC Test Championship table for the majority of the time since it was created in January 2001 and has led the ICC One-Day table since its inception.
He was a premiership-winning coach waiting to happen. It wasn't a matter of if, but when. He is renowned for his knowledge, his commitment, his ability to fast-track rookies and make established players even better and all the pieces came together for him when Melbourne brilliantly won the NRL grand final on September 30.M
Debut seasons do not come more impressive than Israel Folau's year with the Melbourne Storm. Even his coach, Craig Bellamy, is on record as saying he has none better in rugby league. And who can blame him? The teenager started 2007 as a 17-year-old lump of lad who was listed in official programs as `Israel Falou' until Storm issued a correction, and finished it being hailed the next Mal Meninga.
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