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The 2009-10 BCCI awards function on Tuesday evening in Mumbai was well attended by present and former luminaries of Indian cricket.
By Abhideep Das in Mumbai
In a year when Team India has given joy to Indians all over the world by charming the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, it is only fair that the complete focus will always be on those 15 members anywhere they go.
Tuesday evening was no dissimilar as MS Dhoni and his warrior took center-stage during the BCCI awards purpose for the year 2009-10 held at the good-looking lawn of Taj Land’s End, Bandra.
The whole evening was conquered with the sweet scent of victory from that unbelievable night of April 2 at the Wankhede Stadium. As promise by the Board then, each and every member of Team India was handed out a cheque of Rs two crores each, while the entire support-staff got a handsome prize of Rs 50 lakhs each.
The function was made even more special with the attendance of a large chunk of team members from the 1983 World Cup-winning-squad. Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Balwinder Singh Sandhu and Yashpal Sharma were seen regeneration some of the old memories.
With the ICL now being obsolete, persons like Kapil and Sandhu have been welcomed back into the BCCI fold with open arms. The current crop of fast bowlers will be the happiest with this growth since the likes of Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel were all ears when Kapil went upto them to share a trick or two.
“The most main thing is to go ahead and enjoy the game. Give it your best shot but it is significant that you enjoy your art,” the legendary Dev exhort to the young pacers during a dinner-table discussion.
For the record, former all-rounder Salim Durani was hand over the lifetime accomplishment award while Sachin Tendulkar was named Indian cricketer of the year for 2009-10.
The glorious evening ended with an audio-visual presentation of the memorable moments of Team India’s 2011 World Cup campaign. The interesting bit about this presentation was that each game was accompanied with a matching theme song.
While it was ‘De Ghuma Ke’ for the quarter-final win over Australia, nothing but ‘Chak De India’ resonate the air as everyone recollect those tense moments from that nerve-wracking victory over Pakistan in the semi-final.
‘Jai Ho’ it was when scenes from that magical night of April 2 was being played on the big-screen. No prizes for guess that the warmest and loudest clapping from the assembled players, Board functionaries and media went out for this particular sequence.
Guess no one can ever have sufficient of that amazing triumph!
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