Former BCCI Secretary and the present ICC Chairman Jay Shah was happy to be honoured for his contributions to the expansion of Indian cricket. He referred to as out the Indian staff as an invincible facet in ICC tournaments in current occasions, linking them to Australia’s earlier dominance in world occasions.
India’s current successful streak in ICC occasions has been linked with the previous large patch of the mighty Aussies between the years 1999 and 2007, once they gained three back-to-back ODI World Cups and Champions Trophies.
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“From 2019 to 2026, Crew India achieved nice success — 2 U-19 Males’s WC, 2 U-19 Girls’s WC, WTC runner-up twice, ODI WC runner-up, back-to-back T20 WC titles, and the 2025 CT. Congratulations to everybody.”pic.twitter.com/7F6ZOiCVyV
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India have additionally gained the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 after having gained the earlier T20 World Cup in 2024 and the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025. They’ve been invincible in ICC occasions since 2023, after they misplaced the ultimate to the Australians within the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.
Simply as there was a time when Australia meant victory, right this moment, Crew India means victory- Jay Shah
The Indian staff grew to become the first-ever staff to have efficiently defended their title within the historical past of the ICC T20 World Cup. They have been additionally the primary staff to have gained it on their house soil and the primary staff to win it for the third time.
Reflecting on India’s world dominance, the previous BCCI Secretary mentioned throughout one of many personal award features, “Simply as there was a time when Australia meant victory, right this moment, Crew India means victory. That has turn into the fact now.”
He was honoured on the occasion for his distinctive contribution to sports activities in India; nonetheless, he devoted it to the hard-working athletes of India. “I wish to dedicate this award to all of the athletes, particularly the ladies athletes who’re working onerous on the sector,” Shah mentioned.
Jay Shah congratulated all semi-finalists of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 because the ICC Chairman
He went on to congratulate the Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav and the top coach Gautam Gambhir for India’s triumph within the ICC T20 World Cup and likewise praised the opposite semi-finalists because the Chairman of the ICC.
“I need to congratulate Surya, Gautam Gambhir, and all of the gamers of Crew India. I additionally need to congratulate not simply Crew India but in addition the South African staff and the England staff, who didn’t lose a single sport earlier than the knockout stage.
“And at last, the finalists, the New Zealand cricket staff, for the best way they carried out and labored onerous on the sector. Congratulations to them as effectively,” Shah mentioned.
He additionally listed the full achievements of the Indian Males’s and Girls’s cricket groups ever since he joined the BCCI in 2019. He identified India’s dominant run with double triumph within the Males’s and Girls’s ICC U-19 World Cups.
The Girls’s ODI World Cup, the ICC T20 Males’s World Cup, and the Champions Trophy, alongside the 2 carefully fought WTC Finals and the 2023 Males’s ODI World Cup.
Jay Shah motivated BCCI and the Indian gamers to work with the identical zeal and fervour
He then went on to succeed in out to all the Indian staff through Suryakumar and Gautam Gambhir and shared his expertise as an administrator, the place he has discovered “that it takes months to go from the highest to the underside, nevertheless it takes years to go from the underside to the highest.”
He mentioned that within the BCCI, he had saved every little thing deliberate till the 2028 Olympics, and now the brand new members must also plan, maintaining the 2030 and 2032 video games in thoughts, alongside the 2026 Olympics, which is perhaps hosted by India.
“New individuals have are available in my place on the BCCI. All of you collectively want to arrange for the 2030 and 2032 video games, and you already know the place the 2036 Olympics shall be held. So, put together for that as effectively,” he suggested.
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