7th Annual CEAT International Cricket Rating Awards 2001-02

The 7th International Ceat Cricket Rating Awards ceremony, held in the evening of 28th January 2003 at the Police Gymkhana grounds in Mumbai, was a star-studded affair with crème de la crème from the cricket, bollywood, and corporates making their appearance at the event. Some of the well-known faces that dotted the guest list were Clive Lloyd, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Ajit Wadekar, Saurav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Aamir Khan, Anil Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Sunil Shetty and Mana, Dimple Kapadia, Poonam Dhillon.

The hosts for the show were Cyrus Broacha and Malaika Arora who presented the entire show in an interesting manner.

The ceremony saw a mélange of various entertainment acts, on a spectacular set with a giant cricket ball and laser lights, by Bollywood stars which left the 5000 plus audience mesmerized.

The show started with a brilliant song and drama in which Malaika Arora, who impersonated the World Cup trophy, being chased by dancers with costumes representing the twelve participating international cricket teams. Saif Ali Khan tried his hands on playing cricket in an entertaining act, which was followed by a scintillating performance by Shilpa Shetty, who was shown looking for her dream lover in the cricket team, Sachin. Javed Jaffrey once again made the crowd roar with laughter, in a unique rendition of a test match commentary act, presented in his inimitable style.

During the ceremony, twelve awards were given for best performance in the game of cricket to personalities such as Roger Binny and Sharda Ugra for the Ceat Best Coach Award and Ceat Best Sports Media Personality respectively. Bishen Singh Bedi was awarded the CEAT Lifetime Achievement Award. The CEAT International Team of the Year Award went to Australia.

The highlight of the awards was the presentation of the ICICI Lombard CEAT International Cricketer of the Century award to Kapil Dev, who has scored the highest CEAT Cricket Rating Points in the last century. Felicitating him were cricket maestro Sunil Gavaskar, and film star Sunil Shetty amidst glowing tributes to his illustrious career that saw India’s victory at the World Cup and some of the most scintillating individual performances in the history of the game.

The audience was hysterical when the two special awards were declared – CEAT Greatest Influence to the Game of Cricket award, which was presented to Aamir Khan for the success of Lagaan and the CEAT Outstanding Performance as the Leader of the Indian Cricket Team award, which was presented to Sourav Ganguly, in association with Provogue.

The grand finale of the evening was the presentation of the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year Award to Srilankan, Muttiah Muralitharan by Mr. Harsh Goenka, Vice Chairman, Ceat Ltd. followed by a live rendition of the chart busting popular song “Hum ko to hai pura yakin” by nine singers – Sunidhi Chauhan, Sudesh Bhosle, KK, Shaan, Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan & Sagarika,, Shweta Pandit, and Shraddha Pandit. The crowd gave a standing ovation to the singers on stage and cheered the Indian Cricket Team for a great victory in the World Cup.

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The following awards were given during the function -

• Muttiah Muralitharan - CEAT International Cricketer of the Year - Trophy and cheque for Rs 5 lac.
  
  
• Australia - CEAT International Team of the Year - Trophy and cheque for Rs 10 lac.
  
  
• Sachin Tendulkar - CEAT International Batsman of the Year - Trophy.
  
  
• Muttiah Muralitharan - CEAT International Bowler of the Year - Trophy.
  
  
• Ricky Ponting - CEAT International Fielder of the Year - Trophy.
  
  
• Virender Sehwag - CEAT Best Match-Winning Performance Award - Trophy and cheque for Rs 25000.
  
  
• Bishen Singh Bedi - CEAT Lifetime Achievement Award - Trophy and cheque for Rs 25000.
  
  
• Kapil Dev - ICICI LOMBARD CEAT International Cricketer of the Century Award - Trophy and Life size portrait.
  
  
• Roger Binny - CEAT Best Coach Award - Trophy and cheque for Rs 25000.
  
  
• Sharda Ugra - CEAT Best Sports Media Personality Award - Trophy and cheque for Rs 25000.
  
  
• Aamir Khan - CEAT Greatest influence to the game of Cricket - Trophy.
  
  
• Sourav Ganguly - CEAT Leader of the Indian Team in Association with Provogue - Trophy.
  

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