Gill and Deepti Win BCCI’s Polly Umrigar Award

Shubman Gill and Deepti Sharma have won the renowned Polly Umrigar Grant from the BCCI for being India’s best people’s worldwide cricketers individually during the 2022-23 season.

The BCCI declared the NAMAN grants for over one year, with Deepti likewise winning the best ladies’ global cricketer for the 2019-20 season. Smriti Mandhana won it for 2020-21 and 2021-22. Among men’s cricketers, Jasprit Bumrah was granted the best global cricketer for 2021-22, Ravichandran Ashwin for 2020-21, and Mohammed Shami for 2019-20. Subsequently, Bumrah turned into the main pacer to win the honor at least a time or two, having last won it when the service was last held in 2019.

Ravi Shastri and Farokh Specialist were granted the Col. C.K. Nayudu lifetime accomplishment grants.

Mayank Agarwal (2019-20), Axar Patel (2020-21), Shreyas Iyer (2021-22) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (2022-23) won the best worldwide presentation grants. Among ladies, Priya Puniya (2019-20), Shefali Verma (2020-21), Sabbhineni Meghana (2021-22) and Amanjot Kaur (2022-23) won the comparing grants.

Ashwin and Jaiswal additionally won the Dilip Sardesai grant for being the most elevated wicket manager and run-getter against West Indies in Tests in 2022-23.

“It’s been forty years in the game where you have not missed the beat. What’s more, you have been engaged with Indian cricket directly through. It’s an extremely contacting second for me since when I began my cricket at 17 years old and I completed at 30 as a player, BCCI were my gatekeepers directly through,” Shastri said on getting the honor.

“They showed me the way to play sport when the bucks weren’t huge in the game like Farokh referenced. In any case, there was pride in playing for your country. I saw the BCCI experience childhood in these 40 years, to turn into a force to be reckoned with in world cricket. Furthermore, thus, you can see many ages of players benefitting. So for my purposes, this is an exceptionally extraordinary night, particularly with the ladies’ and men’s cricket crews there.”

Rohan Pandit won the best umpire for the last season. A Padmanabhan (2019-20), Vrinda Rathi (2020-21), and Jayaram Madan Gopal (2021-22) won it for the past couple of seasons.

Mumbai (2019-20), Madhya Pradesh (2020-21) and Saurashtra (2022-23) won the honors for the best exhibition in homegrown competitions.