Not Rohit Sharma Or Virat Kohli! This Batter To Win BCCI’s Cricketer Of The Year Award: Report | Cricket News

Former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri can be honoured with BCCI’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday. Shubman Gill can be offered with Cricketer of the Year award following a memorable 12 months when he turned the quickest to cross the 2000-run mark in ODIs and likewise scored 5 a whole lot within the format. “He (Shastri) has been chosen for the honour while Gill will be awarded the cricketer of the year,” mentioned a BCCI official. The BCCI awards can 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 Thursday.

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 sequence win in Australia. However, India couldn’t win an ICC title when Shastri and Kohli have been in cost.

India additionally reached the WTC closing when Shastri was round however got here brief in opposition to New Zealand within the closing. In 2019, India reached the semifinals of the ODI World Cup.

After his farewell occasion within the UAE in 2021, Shastri had mentioned 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 mentioned.

“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.”