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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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The Indian team that won the ODI World Cup in 2025 was also honoured. Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, India created history by winning this tournament for the first time. In the title match played in Navi Mumbai, Team India won the trophy by defeating South Africa. With this victory, Harmanpreet Kaur joined the special club of Mahendra Singh and Kapil Dev, under whose captaincy India won the ODI World Cup.
Recently, the Indian men's team that won the T20 World Cup was also honored at the BCCI Awards. All the players of the winning team were called on the stage. Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, India won this tournament for the third time by defeating New Zealand in the final. With this, India also became the first team to win the T20 World Cup three times. Not only this, India is also the first country to become T20 World Cup champion by hosting it.
The Indian team that won the T20 World Cup, including head coach Gautam Gambhir, was called on the stage. Arshdeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Varun Chakraborty, Hardik Pandya, captain Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and other players were present in the award ceremony, who played an important role in India's victory. Abhishek Sharma Sharma and Sanju Samson gave a strong start to India in the final, after which a stormy half-century was seen from Ishan Kishan and India won the title by putting the match winning total of 255 runs on the board.
