The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has released the full list of awards that it will give to the players as part of its annual award known as the "BCCI Annual Awards- Naman". The awards night will be held in Bengaluru on June 12. While it is public knowledge that Indian captain Virat Kohli will be presented with the prestigious Polly Umrigar award, Harmanpreet Kaur & Smriti Mandhana are also on the winning list. There are a host of other awards that will be handed to performers under different criterion for excellence.
Team India captain Virat Kohli will be presented with the prestigious Polly Umrigar Award for the best international cricketer (2016-17 and 2017-18) at the BCCI Awards (Naman) to be held in Bengaluru on Tuesday, June 12th, 2018, following his phenomenal show in the past two seasons. Here is the full list of players to win prizes across categories:
The Award winners for the 2016-17 season are as following:
COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD- Late Mr. Pankaj Roy (posthumously)
BCCI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR WOMEN- Ms. Diana Edulji (Declined)
BCCI SPECIAL AWARD- Mr. Abbas Ali Baig & Late Mr. Naren Tamhane
POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD- Virat Kohli
BEST INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER - WOMEN- Harmanpreet Kaur
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJITROPHY, 2016-17- Parvez Rasool of Jammu & Kashmir
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS, 2016-17- Krunal Pandya
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2016-17- Priyank K Panchal of Gujarat.
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2016-17- Shahbaz Nadeem of Jharkhand
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U23) COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2016-17- Ekant C Sen of Himachal
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U23) COL.C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2016-17- Karan Kaila of Punjab
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U19) COOCHBEHAR TROPHY IN 2016-17- Jonty Sidhu of Delhi
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U19) COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2016-17- Rahul Singh of Assam
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U16) VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2016-17- N Thakur Tilak Varma of Hyderabad
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U16) VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2016-17- Rohit Dattatraya of Vidarbha C A
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (SR DOMESTIC) OF 2016-17- Punam Raut
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (JR DOMESTIC) OF 2016-17- Jemimah Rodrigues
BEST UMPIRE IN DOMESTIC CRICKET IN 2016-17- Anil Dandekar
BEST PERFORMANCE IN BCCI DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS OF 2016-17- Cricket Association of Bengal (8 points)
The Award winners for the 2017-18 season are as following:
COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD- Mr. Anshuman Gaekwad
BCCI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR WOMEN- Ms. Sudha Shah
BCCI SPECIAL AWARD- Late Mr. Budhi Kunderan
POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD- Virat Kohli
BEST INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER - WOMEN- Smriti Mandhana
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJI TROPHY, 2017-18- Jalaj Saxena of Kerala
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS, 2017-18- Diwesh Pathani od SSCB
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2017-18- Mayank Agarwal of Karnataka
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2017-18- Jalaj Saxena of Kerala
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U23) COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2017-18- Aryaman Birla of Madhya Pradesh
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U23) COL.
C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2017-18- Tejas Baroka of Delhi
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U19) COOCH
BEHAR TROPHY IN 2017-18- Y V Rathod of Vidarbha
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U19)
COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2017-18- Ayush S Jamwal of Himachal Pradesh
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U16) VIJAY
MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2017-18- K Nithish Kumar Reddy of Andhra
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U16) VIJAY
MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2017-18- Reshu Raj of Bihar
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (SR DOMESTIC) OF 2017-18- Deepti Sharma
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (JR DOMESTIC) OF 2017-18- Jemimah Rodrigues
BEST UMPIRE IN DOMESTIC CRICKET IN 2017-18- Yeshwant Barde
BEST PERFORMANCE IN BCCI DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS OF 2017-18- Delhi & District CA
The BCCI has also raised prize money for nine categories by Rs. 1 lakh and the revised prize money is Rs. 1.5 lakh.
Mr. Vinod Rai, Chairman, CoA, said about the awards and the award winners that , “I congratulate all the winners of the BCCI Annual Awards. The last two years have been fabulous for Indian Cricket with both the men and women’s teams doing very well. We are proud of their achievements and this is our small way of acknowledging their on-field efforts.”
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