This Is How BCCI Will Finally Acknowledge Women Cricketers For Their Achievements

Indian cricket board BCCI is finally ready to recognise women cricketers and for the first time ever would award their services by introducing a Lifetime Achievement Award for them.

As the first recipient of this BCCI award would be India’s former and first captain Shanta Rangaswamy who played 16 Tests and 19 ODIs for India while scoring 750 runs in tests and 287 runs in ODI.

She also bagged 12 wickets in the ODIs for India and was the first Indian woman cricketer who was awarded the prestigious Arjuna Award.

 

Shanta Rangaswamy. Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur

Rangaswamy would be handed over her award at BCCI’s Annual Award ceremony on March 8.

Besides Rangaswamy, BCCI for the first time will award



two Lifetime Achievement Awards in the men’s category, giving the other two awards to Col. CK Nayudu Trophy players Rajinder Goel and Padmakar Shivalkar.

 

Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar and Shanta Rangaswamy. Cricket Country

Both Goel and Shivalkar never played Test cricket as they weren’t considered for international cricket despite taking 750 and 637 wickets respectively in first-class cricket.

The announcement for the same was made by a statement released by BCCI.

“The committee (Col. CK Nayudu Awards Committee) consisting of Mr N Ram, Mr Ramachandra Guha and Ms Diana Edulji believed that BCCI needs to recognise the services rendered by Mr Goel and Mr Shivalkar who were not fortunate enough to play for India.”