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Tue 18 Nov 2014, 12:51 pm
Summary
Vengsarkar to get CK Nayudu award; Bhuvi to receive Polly Umrigar award
MEDIA RELEASE The eighth annual BCCI Awards Ceremony, to recognize and reward India’s top cricketing performers in the 2013-14 season, will be held on 21 November 2014. Dilip Vengsarkar, former India Captain, will be the recipient of the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award. He was nominated for the award by a committee comprising of Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Senior Media personality, Mr. Shivlal Yadav, Interim President, BCCI and Mr. Sanjay Patel, Hony. Secretary, BCCI. One of India’s best batsmen ever, Dilip Vengsarkar came into national prominence with a belligerent hundred for Mumbai against the Rest of India in the Irani Cup game at the start of the 1975-76 season. He was picked in the Indian team for the twin-tours of New Zealand and the West Indies later that season, and he made his Test debut against New Zealand at Auckland. In the years that followed, he essayed some extraordinary innings against different and challenging opponents, and excelled especially against the West Indies, the most successful team of the era. He is the only non-English batsman to score three Test hundreds at Lord’s. The third of those hundreds – an unbeaten 126 in 1986 – set up India’s first Test win at the venue. The second Indian to have played 100 Tests, Vengsarkar was rated the world’s number one batsman in the year 1986-87. He was a member of the Indian team that won the World Cup in 1983 and the World Championship of Cricket in 1985, and he led India in ten Tests in 1987-89. He was Chairman of the BCCI’s Talent Research Development Committee for three years, and the Chairman of the All-India Senior Selection Committee for the period, 2006-08. The Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award comprises a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs. 25 Lakhs (the list of previous winners is attached). Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the winner of the annual Polly Umrigar Award, for being India’s best international cricketer of the 2013-14 season. The award comprises a trophy and a cheque for Rs. 5 lakhs. The BCCI Awards Ceremony has been organized prior to the Indian cricket team’s departure to Australia for a Test series.
LIST OF AWARDEES
AWARD | WINNER | PERFORMANCE | |
COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | Dilip Vengsarkar | Citation, trophy and cheque for INR 25 lakhs | |
POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Trophy and cheque for INR 5 lakhs | 263 runs, inclusive of three fifties, and 22 wickets, from 7 Tests, 17 wickets from 22 ODIs, 7 wickets from 7 T20 Intls. |
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJI TROPHY, 2013-14 | Parvez Rasool (J & K CA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 2.5 lakhs | 663 runs and 27 wickets from 9 matches |
LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS, 2013-14 | R. Vinay Kumar (KSCA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 2.5 lakhs | 113 runs and 40 wickets from 12 matches |
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2013-14 | Kedar Jadhav (Maharashtra CA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 2.5 lakhs | 1223 runs in 11 matches @ 87.35, inclusive of six hundreds and 2 fifties. |
MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2013-14 | Rishi Dhawan (HPCA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 2.5 lakhs | 49 wkts @ 20.3 in 8 matches, inclusive of six 5WI and one 10WM. |
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – BEST UNDER-25 CRICKETER OF 2013-14 | Rahul Tripathi (Maharashtra CA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 50,000 | 797 runs @ 88.55 in 7 matches, inclusive of four centuries and one fifty, in the Col. C.K. Nayudu Trophy. |
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – BEST UNDER-19 CRICKETER OF 2013-14 | B. Anirudh (Hyderabad CA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 50,000 | 909 runs @ 82.63 in 7 matches, inclusive of three hundreds and three fifties, in the Cooch Behar Trophy. |
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – BEST UNDER-16 CRICKETER OF 2013-14 | Shubman Gill (PCA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 50,000 | 734 runs @ 73.4 in 7 matches, inclusive of three hundreds and two fifties, in the Vijay Merchant Trophy. |
M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (JR) OF 2013-14 | Smriti Mandhana (Maharashtra CA) | Trophy and cheque for INR 50,000 | 821 runs @ 136.83 in 10 matches, inclusive of four hundreds and three fifties, in the under-19 inter-state women’s limited-overs tournament. |
BEST UMPIRE IN DOMESTIC CRICKET IN 2013-14 | Anil Chaudhary | Trophy and cheque for INR 50,000 |
BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN 2013-14:
MAHARASHTRA CRICKET ASSOCIATION – 13 points RAILWAY SPORTS PROMOTION BOARD – 13 points
COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The BCCI celebrated the birth centenary of Col. Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, the country’s first Test captain, by instituting an annual Lifetime Achievement Award, to honour individuals for their unparalleled contribution to Indian cricket, on and off the field. The Award comprises a trophy, citation and cheque for INR 25 lakhs. PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE AWARD 1994 – Lala Amarnath 1995 – Syed Mushtaq Ali 1996 – Capt. Vijay Hazare 1997 – K.N. Prabhu 1998 – P. R. Umrigar 1999 – Col. Hemachandra Adhikari 2000 – Subhash Gupte 2001 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 2002 – Bhausaheb Nimbalkar 2003 – Chandrakant Borde 2004 – B.S. Bedi, B. Chandrasekhar, EAS Prasanna, S. Venkataraghvan 2007 – Nariman Contractor 2008 – Gundappa Viswanath 2009 – Mohinder Amarnath 2010 – Salim Durani 2011 – Ajit Wadekar 2012 – Sunil Gavaskar 2013 – Kapil Dev Nikhanj BCCI
