BCCI Awards 2025 Winner List
On Saturday, Jasprit Bumrah and Smriti Mandhana were announced the best male and female international cricketers at the BCCI Awards of 2025.
The BCCI Awards started in 2006-07 and has been an annual occasion held to celebrate the selected players for their exemplary performance during the upcoming years.
Other awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award, are presented to individuals in honor of their careers.
The Best International Cricketer of the Year (men), also called the Polly Umrigar Award after the legendary former Indian cricketer, and the Best International Cricketer of the Year – women, are the headline awards in the lot.
BCCI AWARDS 2025 WINNER LIST
- Col. C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award – Men: Sachin Tendulkar
- Polly Umrigar Award – Best International Cricketer – Men: Jasprit Bumrah
- Best International Cricketer – Women: Smriti Mandhana
- Best International Debut – Men: Sarfaraz Khan
- Best International Debut – Women: Asha Sobhana
- BCCI Special Award: Ravichandran Ashwin
- Highest Run-Getter in ODIs – Women: Smriti Mandhana
- Highest Wicket-Taker in ODIs – Women: Deepti Sharma
- Best Umpire In Domestic Cricket: Akshay Totre
- M.A. Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Run-Getter in U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy: Kavya Teotia
- M.A. Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Wicket-Taker in U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy: Vishnu Bhardwaj
- Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy – Best Woman Cricketer Senior Domestic: Priya Mishra
- Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy – Best Woman Cricketer Junior Domestic: Ishwari Awasare
- Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy – Highest Wicket-Taker in U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy: Hemchudeshan Jeganathan
- Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy – Highest Run Getter in U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy: Lakshya Raichandani
- MA Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Wicket-Taker in U-23 CK Nayudu Trophy (Plate Group): Neizekho Rupreo
- MA Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Run Getter in U-23 CK Nayudu Trophy (Plate Group): Hem Chetri
- MA Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Wicket-Taker in U-23 CK Nayudu Trophy (Elite Group): P Vidyuth
- MA Chidambaram Trophy – Highest Run Getter in U-23 CK Nayudu Trophy (Elite Group): Aneesh KV
- Madhavrao Scindia Award – Highest Wicket-Taker in Ranji Trophy (Plate Group): Tanay Thyagarajan
- Madhavrao Scindia Award – Highest Wicket-Taker in Ranji Trophy (Elite Group): R. Sai Kishore
- Madhavrao Scindia Award – Highest Run Getter in Ranji Trophy (Plate Group): Agni Chopra
- Madhavrao Scindia Award – Highest Run Getter in Ranji Trophy (Elite Group): Ricky Bhui
- Lala Amarnath Award for the Best All-Rounder in Domestic Limited-Overs Competitions: Shashank Singh
- Lala Amarnath Award for the Best All-Rounder in Ranji Trophy: Tanush Kotian
- Best Performance in BCCI Domestic Tournaments: Mumbai
Bumrah, who has managed to clinch both the Best Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year and Best Men’s Cricketer of the Year awards at the ICC Awards this year, has been announced by the BCCI as the Best International Cricketer of the Year (men) for the year 2023-24.
Jasprit Bumrah had a great year’s run as the bowler. He picked up 15 wickets and delivered match-winning spells that enabled India to win the T20 World Cup after 17 years, and he was named the Player of the Tournament.
He was the leading wicket-taker in Tests in 2024 with 71 wickets from 13 games. Only Kapil Dev has picked up more wickets for India in red-ball cricket during a single calendar year.
Now, this is the third time that Jasprit Bumrah has received the prestigious Polly Umrigar Award, having received it twice in the 2018-19 and 2021-22 seasons.
The only other player to win the award multiple times-five-is Virat Kohli, followed by Sachin Tendulkar and Ravichandran Ashwin, who have won it twice. In the 2022-23 season, Shubman Gill was awarded the prize.
Meanwhile, Smriti Mandhana picked up her third Best International Cricketer of the Year (women) award in addition to her two awards from the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.
Mandhana was outstanding, especially in ODIs where she scored 747 runs at an average of 57.46. She scored four ODI centuries in the calendar year, a new high in the women’s game.
In addition, she was awarded ICC’s Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year award earlier.
Sarfaraz Khan was crowned Best International Cricketer of the Year (men) in his debut, and Asha Sobhana did the same for the women.
Indian cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar has been accorded the Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award. The Master Blaster still holds the records for the most runs scored in Test cricket and ODIs.
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