On the eve of receiving the  best performance in the year 2007-2008 from the BCCI president Shashank Manohar in Mumbai, vice Captain of the Indian team, and the flamboyant opener Sehwag opined that he would like to follow his idol Sachin Tendulkar and win the Best Cricketer of the Year award. The citation of best performance that Sehwag received brought about happiness in him, as it took him eight years of international cricket to get this award from the cricket board in India.

Sehwag disclosed that he had been a great admirer of the batting of Sachin and did not miss an opportunity to view his batting in television as it was a great learning experience and the best coaching that one could get. Getting the same award just after Sachin got it, makes the award more interesting and more coveted, opined Sehwag. The first award for Sehwag in his glorious career was the Castrol Award. He was thankful to the BCCI for this honor, opined Sehwag after receiving the Polly Umrigar Award from Board President Shashank Manohar.

At the annual awards function of the BCCI Gundappa Viswanath, the ex-India skipper and one-time middle-order mainstay, received the CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award from Manohar. One of he best exponents of batting relying on the skills of the wrist, who brought unbridled joy to millions of Indian fans with his stylish play, expressed the thought that for him the twin triumphs in 1971 in the West Indies and England were his best cricketing moments.

For Vishy, as he was popularly called, the 1971 tour under Ajit Wadekar of the West Indies and England were his best cricketing moments. One of the first team to chase a score of  400-plus and to win it (at Port of Spain in Trinidad in 1976) and to score a hundred in the same much is a moment that he would always cherish said Vishy, who now has made the IT city of India, Bangalore his abode.

For Vishy, the inspiration came from his elder brothers who used to play, for their clubs, and this is what drew him to the game of cricket, at the tender age of nine.

List of the awardees:

Special Awards:

• Best Overall Performance in 2007-08 Season: Maharashtra
• For receiving Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Padma Shri: MS Dhoni
• For taking 300 Test wickets and receiving the Padma Shri: Harbhajan Singh

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