Ravi Shastri received the BCCI's biggest award
BCCI Awards 2024: The annual awards ceremony of the Board of Control for Cricket in India was organized in Hyderabad. BCCI Awards were organized for the first time in 2019. After this, the BCCI Awards were held for the second time. This awards ceremony honored everyone from international players to domestic cricketers. Former Indian all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri was honored with a special award.
Ravi Shastri received the BCCI's biggest award
BCCI honored former Indian team coach Ravi Shastri with the CK Nayudu Life Time Achievement Award. This is the BCCI's biggest award. Along with Ravi Shastri, former Indian player Farooq Engineer was also honored with the Life Time Achievement Award.
Ravi Shastri's contribution to Indian cricket
Ravi Shastri has played 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India. During this time, he ensured that Team India won many big games. After his retirement he made a name for himself as a commentator. In addition, Shastri has been the head coach of Team India twice. He joined the national team as a team director from 2014 to 2016 and then played the role of head coach under the captaincy of Virat Kohli from 2017 to the 2021 T20 World Cup. India performed best in Tests under his coach. He also won two consecutive Test series in Australia. However, the team failed to win any ICC tournament.
Who is Farooq Engineer?
Farooq Engineer was born in a Parsi family in Mumbai. We tell you that Farooq Engineer was a wicketkeeper-batsman. Farooq Engineer played a total of 46 Test matches for India. During this period he scored 2611 runs in 87 innings at an average of 31.08. He has scored two centuries and 16 half-centuries in Test cricket. He also played 5 ODI matches for India. In four ODI innings, he scored 114 runs at an average of 38.0.
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