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Pujara, Ashwin, Pandya in running for Best Sportsman of the Year award

Kolkata, Nov 1 - Cricketers Cheteshwar Pujara, Hardik Pandya and Ravichandran Ashwin along with kabbadi player Pardeep Narwal are in the running for the Best Sportsman of the Year award in team sports for the maiden Indian Sports Honours instituted by

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By Cricketnmore Editorial November 01, 2017 • 21:18 PM
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The finalists for the sportswoman of the year award in individual sport are gymnast Dipa Karmakar, athlete Lalita Babar, world number two shuttler P.V. Sindhu, Olympic Olympic bronze medalist wrestler Sakshi Malik and tennis ace Sania Mirza.

For the male category in individual sport, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, cue sports ace Pankaj Advani, golfer S.S.P. Chawrasia, and in-form shuttler Kidambi Srikanth are the finalists in the race for the best sportsperson of the year award.

In the team event category, the Indian junior hockey team, the senior cricket, hockey and kabaddi teams and women's cricket and hockey teams vie for the top award.

Former Indian cricket team coach Anil Kumble, kabaddi's Balwan Singh, Bisweshwar Nandi -- who guides gymnast Karmakar -- Indian national women's hockey team coach Harendra Singh and golf coach Vijay Divecha are the finalists for the coach of the year award.

The finalists in the other categories are as follows:

Emerging Sportswoman of the year: Aditi Ashok (golf), Ritu Phogat (wrestling), Smriti Mandhana (cricket).

Emerging sportsman of the year: Harmanpreet Singh (hockey), Neeraj Chopra (athletics), Ramkumar Ramanathan (tennis), Sameer Verma (badminton) and Vidit Santosh Gujarathi (chess).

RP-SG Group chairman Sanjiv Goenka and chief coach of the Indian badminton team Pullela Gopichand, himself an all-England champion, will chair a star-studded panel of jury comprising tennis ace and multiple Grand Slam winner Mahesh Bhupathi, legendary athlete P.T. Usha, former world number one sharp shooter Anjali Bhagwat and former India hockey captain Arjun Halappa to decide the ultimate award winners.


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