The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has revealed the winners of the celebrated Naman Awards forward of the ceremony scheduled for Sunday, March 15. The annual awards have fun excellent performances and long-standing contributions to Indian cricket throughout worldwide, home, and junior ranges. This yr’s record options legendary figures corresponding to Rahul Dravid and Roger Binny being honoured with the Col. C.Okay. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, whereas present India captain Shubman Gill headlines the worldwide honours.
Rahul Dravid and Roger Binny honoured with lifetime achievement award
Two stalwarts of Indian cricket, Dravid and Binny, can be introduced with the Col. C.Okay. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for his or her immense contribution to the sport.
Dravid’s legacy stretches far past his glittering enjoying profession. Identified for his impeccable approach and composure on the crease, he amassed greater than 24,000 worldwide runs and established himself as one in every of India’s best Check batters. After retirement, Dravid performed an important function in shaping the following era of Indian cricketers. Because the Head of Cricket on the Nationwide Cricket Academy, he mentored a number of younger gamers who later grew to become mainstays of the nationwide facet. He additionally guided India’s Beneath-19 workforce to the ICC U19 World Cup title in 2018. Later, as the top coach of the senior males’s workforce, Dravid oversaw a historic second in 2024 when India ended a protracted ICC trophy drought by lifting the T20 World Cup in Barbados.
In the meantime, Binny’s contribution dates again to India’s historic 1983 World Cup triumph. The previous all-rounder was the main wicket-taker in that match and performed a key function in serving to India safe its maiden World Cup title. Binny was additionally a part of the Indian facet that received the 1985 World Championship of Cricket. After his enjoying days, he served because the thirty sixth President of the BCCI from 2022 to 2025.
Mithali Raj recognised for reworking girls’s cricket
Former India captain Mithali Raj will obtain the BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for Ladies. Extensively considered one of many best batters in girls’s cricket, Mithali holds the document for probably the most runs in girls’s One-Day Internationals with 7805 runs at a powerful common of fifty.68.
Her affect extends past statistics. Mithali performed a pivotal function in elevating the profile of ladies’s cricket in India and impressed a whole era of younger gamers to pursue the game professionally.
Shubman Gill and Smriti Mandhana headline worldwide honours
India’s Check and ODI captain Gill will obtain the celebrated Polly Umrigar Award for the Finest Worldwide Cricketer (Males) for the 2024-25 season. This marks the second time Gill has earned the honour, reflecting his rising stature as one in every of India’s main batters.
Amongst girls cricketers, Smriti Mandhana has as soon as once more been recognised for her consistency and brilliance with the bat. She is going to obtain the Finest Worldwide Cricketer (Ladies) award for the fifth time in her profession. Mandhana additionally topped the charts as the best run-scorer in girls’s ODIs in the course of the 2024-25 season.
Different worldwide honours embody Deepti Sharma being named the best wicket-taker in girls’s ODIs, whereas Harshit Rana and Shree Charani had been awarded the Finest Worldwide Debut within the males’s and girls’s classes respectively.
Home and junior stars additionally recognised
The Naman Awards additionally shine a highlight on standout performers in home cricket. Mumbai’s Ayush Mhatre will obtain the Lala Amarnath Award for the Finest All-Rounder in home limited-overs competitions for the 2024-25 season. Vidarbha’s Harsh Dubey, who loved a outstanding Ranji Trophy marketing campaign, will obtain the Lala Amarnath Award for the Finest All-Rounder within the Ranji Trophy.
A number of younger skills had been recognised throughout age-group tournaments, together with Ira Jadhav, Shafali Verma, Vicky Ostwal and Yashbardhan Singh Chauhan, amongst others. The Mumbai Cricket Affiliation was additionally honoured for the Finest Efficiency in BCCI Home Tournaments in the course of the 2024-25 season.
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Particular felicitation for India’s ICC trophy-winning groups
The ceremony will even have fun a golden interval for Indian cricket, with the felicitation of 5 ICC trophy-winning groups: the Ladies’s Beneath-19 World Cup 2025 champions, the Males’s Beneath-19 World Cup 2026 winners, the Champions Trophy 2025 champions, the Ladies’s World Cup 2025 champions, and the Males’s T20 World Cup 2026-winning workforce.
Full record of BCCI Naman awards
| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| Highest Wickets in One Day Internationals 2024-25 Ladies | Deepti Sharma |
| Highest Run-Getter in One Day Internationals 2024-25 Ladies | Smriti Mandhana |
| Finest Worldwide Debut in 2024-25 Ladies | Shree Charani |
| Finest Worldwide Debut in 2024-25 Males | Harshit Rana |
| Finest Worldwide Cricketer in 2024-25 Ladies | Smriti Mandhana |
| Polly Umrigar Award Finest Worldwide Cricketer in 2024-25 Males | Shubman Gill |
| Col. C.Okay. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award | Rahul Dravid and Roger Binny |
| BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for Ladies | Mithali Raj |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Finest Lady Cricketer Jr Home 2024-25 | Ira Jadhav (Mumbai) |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Finest Lady Cricketer Sr Home 2024-25 Sr Ladies One Day | Shafali Verma (Haryana) |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U16 Vijay Service provider Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Yashbardhan Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh) |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U16 Vijay Service provider Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Kishan Sarkar (Tripura) |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Highest Run Getter U16 Vijay Service provider Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Shanthanu Singh (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy Highest Run Getter U16 Vijay Service provider Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Pritam Raj (Bihar) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U19 Cooch Behar Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Hemchudeshan J (Tamil Nadu) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U19 Cooch Behar Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Arkajit Roy (Tripura) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Run Getter U19 Cooch Behar Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Nitya J Pandya (Baroda) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Run Getter U19 Cooch Behar Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Ragavan Ramamoorthy (Pondicherry) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U23 Col C Okay Nayudu Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Vicky Ostwal (Maharashtra) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Wicket-Taker U23 Col C Okay Nayudu Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Dipjyoti Saikia (Assam) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Run Getter U23 Col C Okay Nayudu Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Macneil H N (Karnataka) |
| M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest Run Getter U23 Col C Okay Nayudu Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | R Jashwanth Shreeram (Pondicherry) |
| Madhavrao Scindia Award Highest Wicket-Taker Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Harsh Dubey (Vidarbha) |
| Madhavrao Scindia Award Highest Wicket-Taker Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Suchith J (Nagaland) |
| Madhavrao Scindia Award Highest Run Getter Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group | Y V Rathod (Vidarbha) |
| Madhavrao Scindia Award Highest Run Getter Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Plate Group | Snehal Kauthankar (Goa) |
| Lala Amarnath Award Finest All-Rounder Home Restricted Overs 2024-25 | Ayush Mhatre (Mumbai) |
| Lala Amarnath Award Finest All-Rounder Ranji Trophy 2024-25 | Harsh Dubey (Vidarbha) |
| Finest Efficiency in BCCI Home Tournaments 2024-25 | Mumbai Cricket Affiliation |
| Finest Umpire in Home Cricket 2023-24 | Ulhas Gandhe (Vidarbha) |
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