Former India captain and head coach said on Tuesday that it was a touching moment for him to get bestowed with the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award. (More Cricket News)
In a glittering ceremony, the BCCI awarded a host of top men’s and women’s performers from 🐓the 2019-20 season. Former India wicketk꧟eeper Farokh Engineer too was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Shastri was part of ’s World Cup winning squad in 1983 and was the P✨layer of the Ser💞ies when they bagged the World Series in 1985.
Later as a coach, Shastri masterminded India’s back-to-back Tes𓂃t series wins in Australia, the first Asian side to achieve the feat.
Shastri sa🥃id it was an emotional moment for him. 🍒;
“It certainly is (an emotional moment). Ladies and gentleman thanks for coming and I thank the BCCI for bestowing this honour on me. It’s four decades in the game, you have not missed a beat and you have been involved with Indian cricket right through.
"It is a very touching moment for me because when I started my cricket at the age of 17 and I finished at 31 as a player, 30 in fact, BCCI was my guardian right thro🗹ugh.
"They showed me the path to play the sport. You know when the bucks were not big🐎 in the game as Farokh (Engineer), had mentioned. But there was pride in playing for your country.”
Shastri said ꦇthe board’s growth as an influential sportingꦦ entity has benefitted generation of players.
“I saw the BCCI growing up in the 40 years of mine, you know, powerhouse in world cricket and because of that you can see generations after gen🔜erations of players benefitting. So, for me this is very special evening with the women’s team, the men’s cricket team there.&n⛎bsp;
"Yoಞu have got the coaching staff from England and here are people who have been with me right through those 40 years – either as administrators, or players or broadcasters or production people around the ground when we play the game or watch the game or commentate on the game.
"So, it is a very special evening. Touching,” said Sha🧜stri after receiving the award.
Star batter was conferred with the Po⛎lly Umrigar Best M🧸en’s International Cricketer of the Year (2022-23) award.
Gill was India’s standout batsman in the white ball formats, especially in the ODIs during the sea🦄son that was considered for the award.
Last year, Gill became the fastest batsmaꦐn to reach the 2000-run mark in ODIs in the process of making 1584 runs from 2🐲9 matches at an average of 63.36 including five hundreds.
Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal grabbed the award for the Best International debut during the 2022-23 season after cracking a 171 againಞst the West Indies at Roseau in Ju🐭ly last year.
Spinner Deepti Sharma grabbed the International Women’s Cricketer of the Year award 🌸for the 2022-23 s𝄹eason.
Deepti’s bowling had a massive impact on India’s facile win over England recently in the one-off෴ Test as she picked up nine wickets for 39 in the match besides making a crucial fifty.
List of awards:
Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award: Ravi Shastri, Farokh Engineer (2019-ꦯ20).
Polly Umrigar Award for Best Men’s Cricketer of the Year: Shubma🥃n Gill (2022-23), Jasprit Bumrah (2021-22), Ravichandran Ashwin (2020-21), Mohammed Shaඣmi (2019-20).
Best International Crick🌳eter, Women: Deepti Sharma (2019-20, 202⛎2-23), Smriti Mandhana (2020-21, 2021-22).
Best International Debut, Men: Mayank Agarwal (2019-20), Axar Patel (2020-21), Shreyas Iyer (2021-22), Yashasvi Jaiswal (2022-23).&nꦗbsp;
Best International Debut, Women: Priya Punia (2019-20), Shafali Varma (2020-21), S Meghna (2021-22), Amanjot ༒Kaur (2022-23).
Dilip Sardesai Award (2022-23): Highest Runs: Yashasvi Jaiswal; Highest Wickets: R Ashwin.𒅌
Mos🀅t Runs in ODIs – Women: Punam Raut (2019-20), Mithali Raj (2020-21), Harmanpreet Kaur (2021-22), Jemimah Rodrigues (2022-23).
Most Wicke🏅ts in ODIs – Women: Poonam Yadav (2019-20), Jhulan Goswami (2020-21), Rajehwari Gayakwad ও(2021-22), Devika Vaidya (2022-23).
Best Umpire in Domestic Cricket: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (2019-20), Vrinda Rathi (2020-21), J Madangopal (2021-22), Rohan Pandit (💃2022-23).
Be꧙st performance in domestic tour🌱naments: Mumbai (2019-20).
Lala Amarnath Award: Best all-rounder in domestic liꦺmit𝄹ed-over competitions: Baba Aparajith (2019-20), Rishi Dhawan (2020-21, 2021-22), Riyan Parag (2022-23).
Lala Amarnath Award: Best all🧸-rounder in Ranji Trophy: Manishankar Mura Singh (2019-20), Shams Mulani (2021-22), Saransh Jain (20ꦑ22-23).
Madhavrao Scindia Trophy: Highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy🍎: Rahul Dalal (2019-20), Sarfaraz Khan (2021-22), Mayank Agarwal (2022-23).
Madhavrao Sc🦄india Trophy: Highest wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy: Jaydev Unadkat (2019-20), Shams Mulani (2021-22), Jalaj Saxena (2022-23).
MA Chidambaram Trophy: Highest wicket-taker in U19 Cooch Behar Trophy: Harsh Dubey (2019-20), AR Nishad (202𒀰1-22), Manav Chothani (2022-23).
MA Chidambaram Trophy: Highest run-getter in U19 Cooch Behar Trophy: P. Kanpillewar (2019⛦-20), Mayank Shandilya (2021-22), Danish Malewar (2022-23).
MA Chidambaram Trophy: Highest wicket-taker in U23 Col Cok Nayudu Trophy: Ank♌ush Tyagi (2019-20), Harsh Dubey (2021-22), Vishal Jayswal (2022-23).
🏅MA Chidambaram Trophy: Hiꦿghest run-getter in U23 Col Cok Nayudu Trophy: Parth Palawat (2019-20), YV Rathod (2021-22), Kshitij Patel (2022-23).
