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bcci awards 2026 photos: The best cricketers of the year were honored at the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s annual Naman Awards 2026. The board also honored India’s Under-19 and senior men’s and women’s teams for becoming world champions. Apart from this, former Indian cricketers Rahul Dravid, Roger Binny and Mithali Raj were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Let us see the top moments of this event organized in New Delhi through photos.
India’s Test captain Shubhman Gill and Smriti Mandhana were named the best international cricketers (men’s and women’s categories respectively) at the BCCI Naman Awards 2026 ceremony for their outstanding performances in 2024-2025. Gill won the prestigious ‘Polly Umrigar Award’ while Mandhana received this award for the fifth time. This is Gill’s second ‘Cricketer of the Year’ award, before which he had won this award in 2023.
Former legendary players Roger Binny, Rahul Dravid and Mithali Raj were honored with the ‘Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement’ award, the highest honor of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). This honor was given in view of his excellent contribution to Indian cricket.
Mandhana finished 2025 with a total of 1,703 international runs. This includes 1,362 runs in ODIs which is the most runs scored by any female cricketer in a calendar year. By doing this, Mandhana became the first batsman in the history of women’s ODI cricket to score 1,000 runs in a single calendar year. Mandhana also contributed significantly in helping India win its first Women’s World Cup title. She scored a total of 434 runs in nine matches and was the highest run scorer for India in the tournament. She stood second in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs in the entire tournament. The Indian team that won the ODI World Cup was also honoured.
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