Ex-India cricketer Ravi Shastri will be conferred with the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) Lifetime Achievement Award in Hyderabad on Tuesday (January 23) at their award function in Hyderabad. The news was confirmed by news agency PTI. While Shastri was one of the members of India's 1983 World Cup-winning side, he played a pivotal role in India's World Championship Of Cricket victory in 1985. Shastri also was Team India's Director Of Cricket and the head coach and formed a great partnership with Virat Kohli as the captain of the Indian Cricket Team.

With Shastri and Kohli at the helm of affairs in Indian Cricket, Team India went on to dominate the world in all three formats but especially in Test cricket with possibly their biggest triumph coming in the form of India beating Australia in Australia in a Test series, not once but twice. However, a world title eluded the duo and the Indian cricket team even under them with India's final International Cricket Council (ICC) trophy dating back to 2013 when MS Dhoni led the Men in Blue to their ICC Champions Trophy title in 2013.

Shastri played 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India. He made his international debut in the year 1981. His last appearance at the international stage came in the year 1992. In his international career, the batting all-rounder amassed 3830 runs in Tests, scalping 151 wickets in the game's purest format. When it came to ODIs, the Mumbai cricketer scored 3108 runs while having picked 129 wickets in the white-ball format.

Ravi Shastri Joins Elite Club

With Shastri confirmed of getting the award, he is set to join an elite club of cricketers to have received the honour. Shastri's former India teammates Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Syed Kirmani and Krishnamachari Srikkanth among others have won the BCCI's CK Nayudu Award for lifetime achievement in the past. The award ceremony will be conducted for the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic which caused the initial delay. A media report has claimed that the winner of the awards of the last four years will receive their awards at a formal ceremony in Hyderabad on Tuesday (January 23) ahead of the first Test against England beginning on January 25.