The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Annual Awards event is scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on March 8 in which Indian skipper Virat Kohli will be felicitated with the prestigious Polly Umrigar Award—an honour bestowed to the International Cricketer of the year. It will be the third time in his career that Virat will be acknowledged with this award. Earlier, Kohli bagged this honour in 2011-12 and then in the year 2014-15.
Following his captain, spinner R Ashwin will also be bagging the Dilip Sardesai Award for his phenomenal performance in the recent season. With this award, Ashwin will become the only cricketer to have received this award twice. The Tamil Nadu lad appreciated with this honour after he was named as his Man of the Series performance in his debut series 2011 against West Indies. And now, after his class exhibition from the ball as well as bat earned him this honour twice in tandem with his 2016 gig when Ashwin was again named Man of the Series for his outstanding all-round show where he notched up two centuries and picked up 17 wickets including two five-wicket hauls.
Among the grooming youngsters, Jalaj Saxena of Madhya Pradesh will be receiving the Lala Amarnath Award for the best all-rounder in 2015-16 Ranji Trophy season. Gujarat’s Axar Patel will receive the same for his consistent performance in the limited over cricket.
From India women’s team, ODI and Test skipper Mithali Raj will be receiving the Jagmohan Dalmiya Award for Best Women Cricketer (Senior) in the 2015-16 season and Nitin Menon bags the best umpire award in the domestic circuit.
Further, the awardees for this year are Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, and Shantha Rangaswamy. These three former cricketers have been nominated by the Board’s Award Committee consisting of BCCI admins Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji, and N. Ram.
Here is the full list of the awardees (Courtesy: BCCI)
| AWARD | WINNER |
| COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | RAJINDER GOEL PADMAKAR SHIVALKAR |
| BCCI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR WOMEN | SHANTHA RANGASWAMY |
| BCCI SPECIAL AWARD | V.V KUMAR LATE RAMAKANT DESAI |
| POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD | VIRAT KOHLI |
| DILIP SARDESAI AWARD FOR INDIA’S BEST CRICKETER INTHE WEST INDIES SERIES 2016 | R. ASHWIN |
| LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJI TROPHY, 2015-16 | JALAJ SAXENA OF MADHYA PRADESH |
| LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS, 2015-16 | AXAR PATEL OF GUJARAT |
| MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2015-16 | SHREYAS S IYER OF MUMBAI |
| MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE RANJI TROPHY IN 2015-16 | SHAHBAZ NADEEM OF JHARKHAND |
| M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U23) COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2015-16 | JAY G BISTA OF MUMBAI. |
| M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U23) COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2015-16 |
SATYAJEET BACHHAV OF MAHARASHTRA |
| NKP SALVE AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U19) COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2015-16 | ARMAN JAFFER OF MUMBAI |
| NKP SALVE AWARD – HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U19) COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2015-16 | NINAD RATHVA OF BARODA |
| RAJ SINGH DUNGARPUR AWARD – HIGHEST SCORER IN (U16) VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2015-16 |
ABHISHEK SHARMA OF PUNJAB |
| RAJ SINGH DUNGARPUR AWARD – HIGHEST WICKE-TAKER IN (U16) VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2015-16 |
ABHISHEK SHARMA OF PUNJAB |
| JAGMOHAN DALMIYA AWARD – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (SR) OF 2015-16 | MITHALI RAJ OF RAILWAYS |
| JAGMOHAN DALMIYA AWARD – BEST WOMAN CRICKETER (JR) OF 2015-16 | DEEPTI SHARMA OF UTTAR PRADESH |
| BEST UMPIRE IN DOMESTIC CRICKET IN 2015-16 | NITIN MENON |
| BEST PERFORMANCE IN BCCI DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS OF 2015-16 | MUMBAI CRICKET ASSOCIATION |
