LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Awards 2021 — aimed at recognising, appreciating, and rewarding high-performing cricketers in a calendar year — will take place today virtually.
Star cricketers Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Afridi, and Fawad Alam have been selected in multiple categories for the awards, which will take place at 7pm.
The event can be watched live on the PCB’s YouTube and Facebook pages.
Afridi has been nominated for the T20I Cricketer of the Year, ODI Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year, and Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year categories, besides the Impactful Performance of the Year category.
Pakistan’s run-machine Mohammad Rizwan has also been nominated in the Impactful Performance of the Year category and two other categories: T20I Cricketer of the Year and Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year.
While Rizwan has earned nominations for three categories, pacer Hasan Ali has also been shortlisted for the Impactful Performance of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year awards.
Moreover, skipper Babar Azam, Fawad Alam and Haris Rauf have been shortlisted in two categories each.
Babar, who won the Most Valuable Cricketer of 2020, has once again been nominated in this category, while his other nomination is for the ODI Cricketer of the Year category.
Making a second successive entry to the Impactful Performance of the Year category, Fawad Alam has his second nomination in the Test Cricketer of the Year category.
