Shubman Gill at a follow session on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
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Former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri will probably be honoured with BCCI’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Shubman Gill will probably be offered with Cricketer of the Year award following a memorable 12 months when he grew to become the quickest to cross the 2000-run mark in ODIs and likewise scored 5 lots of within the format.
“He (Shastri) has been chosen for the honour while Gill will be awarded the cricketer of the year,” stated a BCCI official.
The BCCI awards will probably be held for the primary time since 2019 and each India and England groups are anticipated to be in attendance forward of the primary Test starting on January 25.
Shastri, 61, represented India in 80 Tests and 150 ODIs. After retirement, he made a reputation for himself within the broadcasting world.
He additionally donned the teaching hat twice for the nationwide crew, first as a crew director from 2014 to 2016 earlier than returning to the crew as head coach with captain Virat Kohli till the T20 World Cup in 2021.
The spotlight of his tenure was the back-to-back Test collection win in Australia. However, India couldn’t win an ICC title when Shastri and Kohli had been in cost.
India additionally reached the WTC remaining when Shastri was round however got here quick in opposition to New Zealand within the remaining. In 2019, India reached the semifinals of the ODI World Cup.
After his farewell occasion within the UAE in 2021, Shastri had stated that he couldn’t be extra pleased with the crew.
“The quality of cricket this team has played over the last five years across all formats, the performances are there for everyone to see. When you perform in that fashion, when you go across the globe, across all formats and beat teams, then you know you’re part of one great cricket team,” he had stated.
“I’m not saying a great cricket team, India – I’m saying one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game, because if you look at those kind of performances, they don’t happen often.”
Source: www.thehindu.com
