BCCI to give Dilip Sardesai award to heroes of Test series in the Caribbean – Cricket News Update
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has formulated a new award, the Dilip Sardesai award, for the Indian rock-stars of the ongoing Test series between India and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760.
The award will be presented to one top performer in each of the three Test games in the BCCI Awards Ceremony 2010-11, at the end of the series.
A press release of BCCI tells, “The first Dilip Sardesai award to the best Indian player of the Test series that commenced earlier today, will be presented at the BCCI Awards Ceremony for the year 2010-11.”
Team India is playing the 1st Test at Sabina Park, Kingston. At the first day of the game yesterday, India scored 246 in their first innings and the Windies made 34 for 1 wicket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453 lashed 82 and 70 respectively.
The Men in Blue have already won a 5-match ODI series 3-2 against the Caribbean.
As India is currently the No.1 Test team of the world, the cricket crazy Indian fans hope that their side will whitewash the series and the BCCI has planned awards beforehand for the series’ stars.
However, analysts paint a different picture as they think that it will be hard for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 - the trio is on rest due to their IPL-4 fatigues.
The Dilip Sardesai award is named after a former Test batsman of India, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dilip-Narayan-Sardesai-c54101, who played 30 Tests and 179 First Class matches before retiring in 1972.
Born on 8 August, 1940, Dilip was a dashing right-handed batsman who made his Test debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on 16 December, 1961.
He got worldwide repute after scoring a double century against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in the 1964-65 season. He went on to deliver a number of startling and thumping batting performances later on in his career.
With 2001 Test and 10230 First Class runs to his name, Dilip died on 2 July, 2007 in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820, India. He lived for 66 years and 328 days.
The BCCI has been doing a lot to give different incentives to the Indian players since the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011 that they won at home. The board wants its players to perpetuate their winning legacy for a long time to come.
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