Anjum Chopra, Kris Srikkanth to get CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement

The BCCI
Annual Award function will be held in Mumbai on January 12 ahead of the first
ODI against Australia on January 14.

“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

Srikkanth is
undoubtedly one of the biggest names to have come out of Tamil Nadu cricket
stable apart from another former India skipper S Venkataraghavan and
Ravichandran Ashwin. He represented India between 1981 to 1992.

The
60-year-old Srikkanth played 43 Tests, scoring 2062 runs with two hundreds and
12 half-centuries.

He also
scored a half-century against Pakistan in the Benson and Hedges World
Championship of Cricket final in 1985.

Srikkanth
was appointed captain in 1989 for a tough tour of Pakistan where Sachin
Tendulkar made his international debut. However after a drawn series, he was
removed from captaincy as it is believed that a heavyweight BCCI official from
the all-powerful Mumbai lobby went by feedback on his captaincy from neutral
umpire John Hampshire.

Srikkanth
retired in 1992 after the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and then from
2009-12 served as the chairman of national selection committee.

It was the
Srikkanth-led committe that selected the Indian squad for the 2011 World Cup.

He was also
associated with the IPL side Chennai Super Kings during its initial years and
has been an analyst on various platforms including TV, print and digital.

The
42-year-old Anjum is considered to be one of India’s finest batswomen before
Mithali Raj. A left-hander, Anjum played 12 Tests scoring 548 runs.

Anjum also
played 127 ODIs in which she scored a hundred and 18 fifties. She also played
18 T20 Internationals.

She was a
part of the Indian XI that played in the Women’s World Cup final against
Australia in 2005.