Taylor stands to win an award in the Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year category, while countryman and teammate, Mawoyo, has been nominated for the Emerging Cricketer of the Year award.
The awards will be presented in a ceremony pencilled for September 15 in Colombo and will be for players chosen by an independent selection panel of experts, based on the period between August 4, 2011, to August 6 this year.
Taylor will have to beat 14 other nominees for his prize, including Pakistani’s Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal and Australia’s Michael Clarke and Shane Watson. Mawoyo is up against 11 other contestants, including New Zealand’s Trent Boult, Sri Lanka’s Dinesh Chandimal and the West Indies’ Sunil Narine.