The Board of Control for Cricket in India is set to hold a grand event in New Delhi on Sunday, March 15, to celebrate Indian cricket’s recent success in the ICC event. The event, named the BCCI Naman Award, will also honor three legends, celebrate the present, and recognize the future.

The focus will be on the felicitation of the men’s senior team that won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 on March 8. India led a dominant campaign in the home ICC event and defeated New Zealand in the final to shatter major records.

India’s win had some historical achievements as the Men in Blues became the first in the history of the T20 World Cup to win the tournament three times.

BCCI is celebrating a golden phase for Indian cricket

The BCCI has confirmed that the Naman Awards 2026 will honor the five national teams that have won ICC titles in the 2025-26 season.

India’s women’s team that won the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 will be felicitated, along with the winner of the T20 World Cup 2026, led by Suryakumar Yadav and coached by Gautam Gambhir.

The BCCI will also award India’s title-winning team at the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the winning Under-19 boys’ squad in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2026, and the girls’ squad who won the Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup title in the same year, 2025.

In addition to team honors, several prominent figures in Indian cricket will receive individual awards during the ceremony.

Shubman Gill, India’s Test and ODI captain, will then receive the Polly Umrigar Award for Best International Cricketer (Men) for the 2024-25 season. Star batter Smriti Mandhana will be awarded the Best International Cricketer (Women) for a record fifth time in her illustrious career.

The most notable award will be given to two former Indian stalwarts, Roger Binny and Rahul Dravid, in the Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award category, which is the highest among all awards offered by the Indian cricket. Mithali Raj, the former India captain, will be named for the BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for Women.

Dravid, whose 24,000-plus international runs make him one of India’s greatest batsers, was also the head coach when India won the T20 World Cup in 2024.

Roger Binny, the leading wicket-taker in the historic 1983 World Cup, worked in the game as a coach and selector and most recently as the BCCI president between 2022 and 2025.

Other awardees will include Ira Jadhav with the Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy of Best Woman Cricketer in domestic cricket, and Shafali Verma will be the recipient of the Best Woman Cricketer in the senior domestic one-day tournament.

The Lala Amarnath Award for the Best All-Rounder in domestic limited-overs competitions will go to Ayush Mhatre, while Harsh Dubey of Vidarbha will get the honor of the Best All-Rounder in the Ranji Trophy.

Meanwhile, the Mumbai Cricket Association will also be recognized as the most high-performing state association in domestic tournaments, having won four titles and being runners-up two times in the course of the season.