Former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday during the BCCI Awards ceremony. Young batter Shubman Gill is expected to be named as the Cricketer of the Year for his exploits in 2023.

Shubman Gill had a memorable 2023 when he became the fastest to cross the 2000-run mark in ODIs and also scored five hundreds in the format.  

The BCCI awards will be held for the first time since 2019 and both India and England teams are expected to be in attendance ahead of the first Test beginning here on Thursday.

"He (Shastri) has been chosen for the honor while Gill will be awarded the cricketer of the year," said a BCCI official to PTI.

Shastri played 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India from 1981-1992 and was India’s head coach from 2017-2021. He was also the Indian team director from 2014 to 2016.

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The highlight of his tenure was the back-to-back Test series win in Australia. However, India could not win an ICC title when Shastri and Kohli were in charge.

After his farewell event in the UAE in 2021, Shastri said that he could not be more proud of the team.

"The quality of cricket this team has played over the last five years across all formats, the performances are there for everyone to see. When you perform in that fashion, when you go across the globe, across all formats, and beat teams, then you know you're part of one great cricket team.

I'm not saying a great cricket team, India - I'm saying one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game, because if you look at those kinds of performances, they don't happen often,” Shastri had said.

(PTI inputs)