Former India women's cricketer Anjum Chopra will receive the prestigious CK Nayudu lifetime achievement award from the BCCI at its annual award function for the year 2019 on January 12. India Men's 1983 World Cup winner and swashbuckling opening batsman Kris Srikkanth will be the co-recipient of the award named after one of Indian cricket's earlier heroes.
"Srikkanth and Anjum will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement award for their contributions to Indian cricket. Everyone in BCCI feels that they are perfect choices for the award," a BCCI source told PTI on condition of anonymity.
The annual award function will be taking place just a couple of days before the first India-Australia ODI in Mumbai on January 14.
Considered as one of India's finest-ever batters in women's cricket, the now 42-year-old Chopra played 12 Tests, 127 ODIs and 18 T20I and scored over 3,500 runs with a hundred and 22 half-centuries at the highest level.
Srikkanth, on the other hand, is inarguably among Tamil Nadu's best India products as the flamboyant stroke-maker played 43 Tests and 146 ODIs with over 6,000 runs at a strike-rate above 70, rare in those days for an Indian batsman, with 6 hundreds and 39 fifties.
Srikkanth's blistering 38 was the highest score of the Indian innings in the 1983 World Cup final at Lord's against the mighty West Indies. He also scored a fifty in the 1985 Benson and Hedges World Championship final versus Pakistan in Melbourne that also India won.
Srikkanth was chief selector at the time when the Men in Blue won the 2011 World Cup in subcontinent.
(Inputs from PTI)
