BCCI Awards 2025: Jasprit Bumrah & Smriti Mandhana Honored as Best International Cricketers of 2023-24.

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On February 1, 2025, Jasprit Bumrah won the Best International Cricketer of the Year (also called the Polly Umrigar Award) 2023-24 in the Men's category, and Smriti Mandhana won the Best International Cricketer of the Year 2023-24 in the Women's category at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Awards 2025 (Naman Awards).


      - Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, fondly known as the "God of Cricket" or "Master Blaster," was honored with the Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award of the Year 2024.

     

     

Main Point :-   (i) Sachin Tendulkar is the 31st recipient of the Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award from the BCCI.

      (ii) The Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted in 1994 in honor of India’s first cricket captain, Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya (CK) Nayudu.

(iii) The BCCI also presented a special award to Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin, who retired from all forms of international cricket in December 2024.

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