Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will receive the Polly
Umrigar Award from the BCCI for being India’s best international
cricketer of the year 2012-13.
India’s best
performers in the senior and the junior level cricket in a period of 12
months from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013, will be honoured at the
BCCI’s annual Awards ceremony, to be held in Mumbai on January 11,2014
Ashwin
took 43 wickets, including four five-wicket hauls and one 10-wicket
haul in a match. He also scored 263 runs, including two fifties, from
eight Tests. In ODIs, he took 24 wickets from 18 matches and three
wickets from four T20 Internationals.
The Polly
Umrigar Award comprises a trophy and a cheque for Rs. 5 lakhs.
The award
has been won in previous years by -
- Sachin Tendulkar (2006-07 and 2009-10)
- Virender Sehwag (2007-08)
- Gautam Gambhir (2008-09)
- Rahul Dravid (2010-11) and
- Virat Kohli (2011-12).
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