Shubhman Gill and Ravi Shastri will be honoured at the BCCI Awards

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Shubhman Gill and Ravi Shastri will be honoured at the BCCI Awards.
On January 23, former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri will be honoured with BCCI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Hyderabad.
India’s young top-order batsman Shubman Gill will receive the Cricketer of the Year award for outstanding performances in the last 12 months.
In 2023, Gill became the fastest player to cross the milestone of 2000 runs in ODIs and notably scored five centuries in the format.
In 2014, Shastri was appointed as the director of Team India.
Under Shastri, as India’s head coach, the Virat Kohli-starrer team made it to the semi-finals of the ICC World Cup 2019.
Shastri remained the head coach of India till the T20 World Cup in 2021.
The BCCI Awards will be held for the first time since 2019. The awards were first given in 2006–07.