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Ceat Cricket awards: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli win top honours

Updated on: 31 May,2016 10:00 AM IST  | 
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India's star batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were named Ceat Indian Cricketer of the Year and Twenty20 Player of the Year respectively, while former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award at a glittering function attended by several past and present players at a Mumbai hotel yesterday

Ceat Cricket awards: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli win top honours

India opener Rohit Sharma with wife Ritika at the Ceat Cricket awards at a city hotel yesterday.

Star India batsman Virat Kohli was today named Ceat T20 Player of the Year while former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar was conferred with the Achievement Award at a glittering function attended by several past and present player.


India opener Rohit Sharma with wife Ritika at the Ceat Cricket awards at a city hotel yesterday. Pic/Suresh Karkera
India opener Rohit Sharma with wife Ritika at the Ceat Cricket awards at a Mumbai hotel on Monday. Pic/Suresh Karkera


England batsman Joe Root was named as the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year as well as International Batsman of the Year.


India off-spinner R Ashwin won the Ceat International Bowler of the Year award while Rohit Sharma was named as the Indian Cricketer of the Year.

Kohli has been in the form of his life in the shortest format recently as he was named as Player-of-the-Tournament in the World T20 held in India earlier this year and won the
orange cap for amassing the most runs of 973 in 16 matches in the just-concluded IPL-9.

60-year-old Vengsarkar had amassed 6868 runs in 116 Tests with 17 hundreds to boot that included a hat-trick of tons in successive Test appearances at Lord's cricket ground
in England.

Vengsarkar was also a part of the 1983-World Cup winning Indian team.

The award winners:
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dilip Vengsarkar
International Cricketer of the Year: Joe Root
International Batsman of the Year: Joe Root
International Bowler of the Year: R Ashwin
Test Cricketer of the Year: Kane Williamson
ODI Cricketer of the Year: Martin Guptill
T20 Player of the Year: Virat Kohli
Indian Cricketer of the Year: Rohit Sharma
Domestic Cricketer of the Year: Shreyas Iyer
Young Player of the Year: Rishabh Pant
Special Award: Ajinkya Rahane.

 

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