Bangalore-based Odisha cricketer Sarthak Mohapatra picked up three awards in first ever Cricheroes Awards, which were distributed in a virtual ceremony on 29th January 2022. Mohapatra, who hails from Bhubaneswar, won the ‘Batter of the Year’ and ‘Hard hitter of the Year’ awards for scoring 11,392 runs from 338 innings. He also picked up the ‘CricHeroes Hall of Fame’ award for being one of the top three batters of CricHeroes.
The Cricheroes Awards has yet again unveiled the depth of grassroots cricketing talent existing across the length and breadth of India. Cricketers, scorers, organizers and teams from at least 17 cities and towns of the country picked up awards in 20 categories, underlining the spread and popularity of the game.
Cricheroes is a leading international cricket performance analysis platform, having several domestic and international associations as official partners around the cricketing world.
CricHeroes has seen more than 1.1 crore registered cricketers who have scored more than 20 lakhs matches. More than 200 cricket associations are using CricHeroes as their official scoring platform.
Major BCCI affiliated state associations like Cricket Association of Bengal, Odisha Cricket Association, Baroda Cricket Association, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, etc. along with ICC Affiliate Members like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada and more are using the platform.
Sharing his views on the occasion, Abhishek Desai, Founder, CricHeroes said, “We congratulate all the winners of the first ever CricHeroes Awards. They all truly deserved this recognition. We wish them more such awards and performances in 2022. CricHeroes Awards will be bigger and better next year.”
Balaji Kannan of Chennai and Uma Kashvi of Bengaluru bagged the most coveted CricHero of the Year (Male) and CricHero of the Year (Female) titles respectively. Both Balaji and Uma had won the most number of Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards in Leather-ball cricket in the calendar year 2021.
Balaji also won the CricHero Fielder of Year prize having affected a total of 188 dismissals in 368 games with 161 catches and 27 run outs to his name. The other star of the day was undoubtedly Deepanshu Kakkar of Gurgaon, who won as many as three awards including the Crichero Batter and Wicketkeeper of the Year in Leather-ball cricket. He scored over 10,000 runs at an average of above 50 while being involved in 189 dismissals behind the stumps.
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PHOTO: Undated file picture of Bangalore-based Odisha cricketer Sarthak Siba Mohapatra an award.