BCCI’s varied winners at its annual awards on Sunday, celebrating a yr when India picked 5 ICC trophies, throughout women and men, could possibly be carbon-dated in varied methods. The journey from willpower to dominance, can actually be gauged by their automobiles, cell phones, motion pictures and video video games, of the day.
Rahul Dravid recalled getting a carry from fellow Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Roger Binny again to his Indiranagar dwelling, whereas chewing the 1983 World Cup winner’s brains about cricket, driving in a FIAT, “which was the Ferrari of that point.” Abhishek Sharma recalled going to a state camp with a Samsung cell, the place “solely Shubman Gill had an IPhone”, Sanju Samson’s first was a Motorola with a flap, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, carries two telephones, his seniors knowledgeable with a chuckle. Hardik Pandya’s first automobile was a Maruti 800, Samson’s a Wagon R and Abhishek’s an Activa scooty. Hardik’s favorite film remained the 1998 Godzilla, Sooryavanshi’s Dhurandhar, whereas Abhishek digs 3 Idiots. Whereas Samson grew up enjoying Grand Theft Auto and Abhishek Cricket 07, the teenaged Sooryavanshi’s batting had evoked a dialog between Samson and coach Dravid at Rajasthan Royals, with the senior batsman saying, “Vaibhav ki batting toh khud online game hai.”
India’s dominance resulting in a surfeit of sudden titles, has hitched upon aggressive strokeplay, one hitter extra explosive than the following. David who coached the 2024 T20 WC winners, and Sanju, who performed within the 2026 title (some may say, dragging India to it single battedly), acing the KOs, had been witness to Sooryavanshi’s IPL debut. The teenager who took the U19 last by storm, and needs to interrupt Chris Gayle’s document of 175, was about to debut for Royals. “Me and Dravid Sir met him earlier than his first match and Sir mentioned we must always discuss to him. We requested him what he deliberate to do. He mentioned, “pehla (ball) mila toh pehla hello udda denge.” I believed yeh toh online game khel rahaa Hai,” Sanju remembered. True to phrase, his first shot was a six over covers.
Tribute to a legendary profession and invaluable contribution to Indian Cricket 👏
ICC Chairman Mr. @JayShah felicitates #TeamIndia legend and former Head Coach Mr. Rahul Dravid with essentially the most prestigious Col. C.Ok. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award 🙌#NamanAwards pic.twitter.com/kKvpY81nDX
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 15, 2026
The immense potential of Indian cricket – the underlying theme of the awards celebration apart from chorusing on the triumphs – was additionally evident in how Ladies’s captain Harmanpreet acknowledged how watching the U19 girls’s staff of Niki Prasad, win back-to-back World titles had impressed the seniors staff win their’s on November 2nd. The final 10 overs of the 2017 WC last, had haunted Harman sufficient to replay them again and again in her head, as Indian girls struggled to cross the road. “However we watched the U19s win. They have been the primary ones to carry the Cup. Twice. That impressed us,” she would say.
Whereas 2025’s best efficiency of Indian cricket resides with Jemimah Rodrigues, who Harman mentioned had wanted a small break earlier than she returned to play the innings of a lifetime in opposition to Australia, Niki, the younger captain, spoke of “realizing what we would have liked to do.” India’s Gen Subsequent – women and men – have been fortunately freed from self doubts, and fundamental struggles that their predecessors, just like the third Lifetime Achievement winner Mithali Raj, had been wracked with.
Celebrating a legendary journey that remodeled girls’s cricket in India ✨
ICC Chairman Mr. @JayShah honours former #TeamIndia captain @M_Raj03 with the BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award 👏#NamanAwards pic.twitter.com/gzPaqWRYLC
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 15, 2026
Each Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav would discuss in regards to the utter non-necessity of giving recommendation to the youthful bunch, who got here armed with fearlessness and readability. However a staff tradition, the ethos and values did are inclined to get handed on. Like Surya crediting the 2024 squad of Rohit-Virat and Dravid for a way continuity was revered and gamers weren’t flung apart, with ingratitude, their expertise valued.
“It was not troublesome from the place we left in 2024 which confirmed belief in gamers paid off. Sports activities has a whole lot of ups and downs, however we confirmed perception in gamers within the new cycle,” he defined about calls to stay with Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy. “We needed to make as much less modifications as doable, stand by gamers who did nicely. Gautier bhai mentioned, we created a brilliant staff so let’s stick by them. We have been enjoying with 8 batters, who have been similar for final one and half years. They took duty and chipped in.”
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🎥 Captain Surya Kumar Yadav on #TeamIndia‘s sensible run in ICC occasions throughout codecs and his objectives for the longer term 🙌… pic.twitter.com/8vvuI7YSgZ
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 15, 2026
Data additionally will get transferred in IPL, like MS Dhoni’s golden phrases to Ayush Mhatre that stayed with him. “All the time stay cool. Choices made in anger are at all times fallacious.” Or Hardik who urges children at Mumbai Indians to remain affected person and study new methods on a regular basis. The tattooed, blond-haired maverick would additionally discuss of his earliest classical Mumbai affect: Wasim Jaffer. “I used to repeat his batting. He had class, and timing.”
Shubman, who emulated his heroes Rohit bhai, Virat bhai, Ash bhai, Mahi bhai from 2013 in successful Champions Trophy, would converse of how trophies impressed the following technology. “As a child you wanna replicate that second. To have the ability to accomplish a kind of (CT 2025) was a dream, it was particular successful after 12 years. I learnt in case you maintain specializing in what you need to do, primarily as batsman rating runs, all else falls into place.”
It’s how successful trophies turned a behavior. And India was sitting fairly with 5 of the 8 ICC Cups contested in final two years.