Ravi Shastri, the former captain of India and current head coach, expressed on Tuesday that receiving the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award was a heartwarming experience for him. The BCCI honored numerous outstanding men's and women's performances from the 2019–20 season at this glamorous function. Farokh Engineer, a former wicketkeeper for India, also received a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Shastri was named Player of the Series when India won the World Series in 1985 and was a member of the team that won the World Cup in 1983. Shastri later became a coach and led India to become the first Asian team to win back-to-back Test series in Australia. It was an emotional time for Shastri, he said. It's undeniably an emotional moment. Thank you for coming, ladies and gentlemen. I would also like to thank the BCCI for giving me this honor. Over the course of four decades in the game, you have continued to be associated with Indian cricket without missing a beat.
"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 claimed that a new generation of athletes had benefited from the board's rise to prominence in the sports world.
The Polly Umrigar Best Men's International Cricketer of the Year (2022-23) went to star batsman Shubman Gill. Throughout the season that was taken into consideration for the award, Gill was India's best batsman in the white ball formats, particularly in the ODIs. After reaching 1584 runs from 29 matches at an average of 63.36, including five hundreds, Gill last year became the fastest batsman to achieve the 2000-run milestone in ODIs. After scoring a 171 against the West Indies at Roseau in July of last year, young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal won the prize for Best International debut during the 2022–2023 season. During the 2022–2023 season, spinner Deepti Sharma won the title of International Women's Cricketer of the Year.
