Mumbai: The Suryakumar Yadav-led Indian team, which scripted history by a success the T20 World Cup, might perchance be felicitated by the BCCI all over its annual ‘Naman Awards’ ceremony right here on Sunday.
The spotlight of the BCCI Naman Awards 2026 might perchance be the felicitation of all 5 Indian teams which contain captured ICC titles no longer too long within the past, a ancient first, the Indian cricket board presented on Saturday.
The Gautam Gambhir-coached side defeated Novel Zealand by 96 runs within the closing in Ahmedabad on March 8 to change into the first team to receive the T20 World Cup three cases, the first to efficiently defend the title and the first to total the feat on home soil.
The ceremony will additionally honour the opposite Indian facets who lifted ICC trophies within the sizzling previous, at the side of the senior females’s team that won the ODI World Cup 2025, the males’s team that clinched the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the Below-19 Cricket World Cup 2026 and the females’s U-19 T20 World Cup team of 2025.
Meanwhile, the BCCI additionally officially confirmed plenty of person honours that were already acknowledged earlier this week.
India’s Check and ODI captain Shubman Gill will salvage the Polly Umrigar Award for Easiest World Cricketer (Men) for the 2024-25 season, whereas Smriti Mandhana might perchance be honoured because the Easiest World Cricketer (Females) for the fifth time in her profession.
Worn stalwarts Roger Binny and Rahul Dravid might perchance be conferred the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Fulfillment Award, the board’s best honour, whereas old model India captain Mithali Raj will salvage the BCCI Lifetime Fulfillment Award for Females.
Binny, a member of India’s 1983 Cricket World Cup-a success team and the tournament’s best wicket-taker, later served the game as coach, selector and BCCI president from 2022 to 2025.
Dravid, one of India’s most piquant batters with over 24,000 global runs, additionally performed a key role in shaping the nation’s next period of cricketers and changed into the head coach when India won the T20 World Cup within the earlier version in 2024.
Amongst other awardees, Ira Jadhav will salvage the Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy for Easiest Lady Cricketer (Home), whereas Shafali Verma might perchance be honoured because the Easiest Lady Cricketer within the Senior Home One-Day structure.
Ayush Mhatre will salvage the Lala Amarnath Award for Easiest All-Rounder in home dinky-overs competitions, whereas Vidarbha’s Harsh Dubey will secure the award for Easiest All-Rounder within the Ranji Trophy.
The Mumbai Cricket Affiliation will additionally be recognised because the fully performing screech affiliation in BCCI home tournaments after a success four titles and finishing runners-up in two competitions all around the season.
