Shubman Gill and Deepti Sharma win big at BCCI awards, Shastri wins lifetime achievement award

[Gollum]

 

Shubman Gill and Deepti Sharma have won the BCCI awards for best men's and women's international cricketers of 2022-23. Gill won the men's award, named after the former India captain Polly Umrigar, for the first time in his career, while Deepti won the women's award for the second time - she also won it for the 2019-20 season.

 

The BCCI had not announced their awards since naming Jasprit Bumrah and Poonam Yadav the international cricketers of 2018-19. They have now cleared their backlog, announcing winners for the past four seasons in one go. Mohammed Shami and Deepti have taken the honours for 2019-20, R Ashwin and Smriti Mandhana for 2020-21, and Bumrah and Mandhana for 2021-22.

 

Former India allrounder Ravi Shastri, meanwhile, has been bestowed the BCCI's lifetime achievement award. 

[Gollum]

Aisa kya teer ukhada Gill ne? I swear never in Indian cricket history has a player been pampered so much. That too despite zero achievements, are we a minnow nation to celebrate rank mediocrity? 

[MediumPacer]

Couldnt fix his weakness in all theses years ,maybe mentally weak as well,not going to be a great player. Didnt want to play aggressively at kkr under baz ,give us an insight into his character.

[MediumPacer]

i guess they are going by his odi stats?? this is why stats are not a good indication given so many diff conditions that great players need to adjust to.

[bowl_out]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Aisa kya teer ukhada Gill ne? I swear never in Indian cricket history has a player been pampered so much. That too despite zero achievements, are we a minnow nation to celebrate rank mediocrity? 

Barely done anything in International cricket after the Gabba miracle. 

Had a freak IPL season and a 200 in a bi-lateral in between but nothing in important tournaments

 

[Frustrated]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Aisa kya teer ukhada Gill ne? I swear never in Indian cricket history has a player been pampered so much. That too despite zero achievements, are we a minnow nation to celebrate rank mediocrity? 

Gill is Indian 'Babar Azam'.  King of soft runs and massively inflated avg mainly due to minnow bashing and high scores in inconsequential games.  These jokers retaining top ranking is a joke.  No true cricket fan would take it seriously.  

Edited January 25 by Frustrated

[Majestic]

2 hours ago, MediumPacer said:

i guess they are going by his odi stats?? this is why stats are not a good indication given so many diff conditions that great players need to adjust to.

ODI also excluding World Cup.

[Number]

Top order batting in ODIs is so easy for statpadding these days. More so in bilaterals.

Even Babar is a Bradman-level player there and even Imam ul Haq who is noway a whiteball batter has such good stats.

Edited January 25 by Number

[Gollum]

23 despite a DRS shocker yesterday, clownish batting against mediocre spin bowling. Yeh kya scam chal raha hai Indian cricket mein? How is this guy the number one pick in our team?

[Gollum]

14 hours ago, bowl_out said:

Barely done anything in International cricket after the Gabba miracle. 

Had a freak IPL season and a 200 in a bi-lateral in between but nothing in important tournaments

 

Freak IPL season is misleading. Got most of his runs on designer pitches in Ahmedabad. Failed every single time outside that venue. 

 

200 in useless bilateral against NZ C attack. 

Edited January 26 by Gollum

[Gollum]

14 hours ago, Frustrated said:

Gill is Indian 'Babar Azam'.  King of soft runs and massively inflated avg mainly due to minnow bashing and high scores in inconsequential games.  These jokers retaining top ranking is a joke.  No true cricket fan would take it seriously.  

Please don't insult Babar Azam. Babar may be overrated but still far better than Gill. Gill won't make into this Bangladesh XI on merit, see his game against spin? He wouldn't average in double digits on those Bangla pitches. 

Edited January 26 by Gollum

[Lone Wolf]

15 hours ago, Frustrated said:

Gill is Indian 'Babar Azam'.  King of soft runs and massively inflated avg mainly due to minnow bashing and high scores in inconsequential games.  These jokers retaining top ranking is a joke.  No true cricket fan would take it seriously.  

Babar has had solid test outings in SA against likes of Steyn Philander Rabada Olivier & test ton in Australia with some classy 90's as well. 

Gill has not achieved anything remotely close to it in Test Cricket. 

In ODIs both make soft runs..  But Babar at Gill's age used to be better at it. 

[Frustrated]

8 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Babar has had solid test outings in SA against likes of Steyn Philander Rabada Olivier & test ton in Australia with some classy 90's as well. 

Gill has not achieved anything remotely close to it in Test Cricket. 

In ODIs both make soft runs..  But Babar at Gill's age used to be better at it. 

That's true.   Some posters here keep saying that Gill is "once in a generation talent".   They are actually right.  He is indeed "once in a generation" batter who will end up with an avg of less than 25 in Indian test cricket history.  

[Number]

Sai Sudharshan breathing is under his neck.

[Gollum]

Gill is too deeply connected with Bollywood, dating nepo kids, Sachin's daughter etc. Also Harbhajan, Yuvraj hype him up like crazy while running down others, strong Punjabi/opposition lobby behind him (remember his support to farmer's protests). Sponsors, IPL lobby, GT......Vikrant Gupta and others do a good cover job for him. Don't think he can be dropped even if he keeps failing. 

Edited January 26 by Gollum

[Frustrated]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

Gill is too deeply connected with Bollywood, dating nepo kids, Sachin's daughter etc. Also Harbhajan, Yuvraj hype him up like crazy while running down others, strong Punjabi/opposition lobby behind him (remember his support to farmer's protests). Sponsors, IPL lobby, GT......Vikrant Gupta and others do a good cover job for him. Don't think he can be dropped even if he keeps failing. 

When Gill hit that gabba knock 3 yrs ago, he was being touted as the 'next big thing' in indian cricket.  Since then, he has had a series of flop shows as an opener (incl. flop shows on home grounds).  The general perception among many fans changed to this:  "He is more suited in the MO (at 4 or 5)".    As of now, he has had a series of failures in every batting position. 

I can see the narrative (among his fanboys) changing to : "He is more suited for the role of a Nightwatchman"

Edited January 26 by Frustrated

[Lord]

And people here want to drop Gill

[bowl_out]

2 hours ago, Lord said:

And people here want to drop Gill

Not drop but he doesn't have to be a sure starter in every format. 

Pick 1-2 formats for him to focus and tighten his technique, especially against spin

[cowboysfan]

what a dramatic fall it will be for Gill.He has  failed to improve on his weakness.when you look so bad at home then you have no place in the test team.

[tapandrun]

Good that Shastri got the award, man has done everything bcci asked for in the time of crisis. Was the voice of BCCI when BCCI needed a voice.

 

Defended Ind superstars in ball tempering, took the manager's role when they had early exit after the 2007 WC. Promoted IPL.  Didnt let issue between Players and Kumble become a fall-out.

 

 

BCCI again putting all their eggs in one basket in search of a superstar who they can market, It was KL Rhaul and afterwards Pant. 

Giving them them the longer rope, letting them select their batting positions. Regardless how good/bad they are in certain formats they are getting to play all 3 format.

 

 

Edited January 26 by tapandrun