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This Batter to Win BCCI’s Cricketer of The Year Award: On Tuesday, Ravi Shastri, the former head coach and all-rounder for India, will be awarded the BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award. After a remarkable year in which he became the youngest player to reach the 2000 run milestone in One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and amassed five hundreds in the format, Shubman Gill will be given the Cricketer of the Year title.

“He (Shastri) has been chosen for the honour while Gill will be awarded the cricketer of the year,” according to a BCCI official. Before the first Test starts on Thursday, the India and England teams are likely to attend the BCCI awards, which are being staged for the first time since 2019.

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Shastri, 61, played in 150 ODIs and 80 Test matches for India. He established himself in the broadcasting industry after retiring.

He also donned the coaching hat twice for the national team, first as a team director from 2014 to 2016 before returning to the team as head coach with captain Virat Kohli until the T20 World Cup in 2021.

The victories in back-to-back Test series in Australia were the high point of his career. Nevertheless, throughout Shastri and Kohli’s leadership, India was unable to win an ICC championship.

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During Shastri’s reign, India also made it to the World Tennis Championship final, although they lost to New Zealand there. India advanced to the ODI World Cup semifinals in 2019. Shastri expressed his immense pride in the squad during his farewell ceremony in the United Arab Emirates in 2021.

“The quality of cricket this team has played over the last five years across all formats, the performances are there for everyone to see. When you perform in that fashion, when you go across the globe, across all formats and beat teams, then you know you’re part of one great cricket team,” he had said.

“I’m not saying a great cricket team, India – I’m saying one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game, because if you look at those kind of performances, they don’t happen often.”

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Sunil Gavaskar Slams India for Mistreating R Ashwin

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Sunil Gavaskar Slams India for Mistreating R Ashwin: Despite Ravi Ashwin’s evident leadership ability, the Indian team management has been criticized by former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar for not even giving him the honor of vice-captaincy.

He said that rather than only giving him the opportunity to lead the team out to bat in his 100th Test. Team India might have awarded him the armband in a bilateral series or a symbolic Test.

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After playing in 106 Test matches, 116 One-Day Internationals, and 65 Twenty20 Internationals for India, Ashwin announced his retirement last week on the penultimate day of the Gabba Test in the 2024–25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Only Anil Kumble has taken more Test wickets for the nation than he has, with 537. Despite being regarded as one of the nation’s most brilliant cricket minds. He never held a captaincy position and only captained the IPL and local cricket during his international career.

“Ashwin would have made a fine captain for India, but he was denied even the honor of being the vice-captain. There was an opportunity to give him the belated honor even if it was for a token Test match and a limited-overs bilateral series. But that also was denied to him. That’s why it was so good to see Rohit Sharma ask him to lead the team out on his 100th Test match,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Mid-Day.

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Gavaskar criticized the Indian team management for not making greater use of Ashwin during international Test matches, claiming that they dropped him using every “excuse of team balance.”

“Cricket being a batters’ game, the fact that he invariably won the Player of the Series award didn’t win him kudos among the batters’ fraternity. Every time there was even a five percent excuse to leave him out of the eleven, it was grabbed avidly with the excuse of team balance.”

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“At home, there was no way he could be left out because the management knew that without him, they could not win the game. If the excuse was that the pitch and conditions wouldn’t suit the ICC number one-ranked bowler. How come the same excuse was not used for the batters even if they were not top-ranked by ICC, but who struggled in similar pitches and conditions?”

Many commentators think that Ashwin was pressured to announce his retirement by Washington Sundar’s selection over him for the series’ opening Test match in Perth.

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13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi Creates History as He becomes Youngest Cricketer to Achieve THIS

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13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi Creates History as He becomes Youngest Cricketer to Achieve THIS: On Saturday, December 21, during Bihar’s opening match against Madhya Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Vaibhav Suryavanshi created history and cemented his place in the record books.

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Vaibhav has been breaking records since making his debut in domestic cricket. And he has now accomplished yet another significant feat in Indian cricket.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi broke Ali Akbar’s record as the youngest Indian player to play List A cricket at the age of 13 years and 269 days.

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A bright career began when he made his List A debut in the 1999–2000 season at the age of 14 years and 51 days.

The youngest Indian to compete in the Ranji Trophy, List A cricket, and represent India at the U19 level is Vaibhav.

Vaibhav became the youngest player to draw a bid in an IPL auction when he secured a seat with the Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.10 crore during the IPL 2025 mega-sale.

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He will become the youngest debutant in the history of the IPL if he makes his debut the following year.

Vaibhav showed potential by opening his account with a boundary off the first ball he faced. But having a lackluster outing in his maiden List A game, scoring just 4 runs before being removed. In 46.4 overs, Bihar managed to score 196 runs overall.

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With opener Harsh Gawli leading the charge with an incredible 83 off 63 balls, Madhya Pradesh, the runners-up in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, managed to chase down the mark in only 25.1 overs. Captain Rajat Patidar also contributed with a quick 55 off 33 balls.

Bihar is set to face Tripura in their upcoming league stage game on Monday, December 23. While Madhya Pradesh will take on Ishant Sharma-starrer Delhi in their next game.

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