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India's best fielder delivered with poetry

Who's the winner?

India have reached the World Cup final in emphatic fashion, but perhaps more than the dominant wins, what the players are relishing is getting the best fielder medal, a dressing-room award given by their fielding coach, T Dilip. He has announced the winners in a creative fashion, sometimes via the giant screen, the Spidercam and even the boundary-side camera buggy. But after the semi-final against New Zealand, he kept it simple, declaring Ravindra Jadeja the winner through the dressing-room TV. Suryakumar Yadav, the previous winner, though spiced things up with a dash of poetry when handing over the medal. Below are the other medal announcements.
For India's final league game, against Netherlands in Bengaluru, he roped in some very important people - Chinnaswamy's groundsmen held up signs to declare SKY as the winner.
At Eden Gardens after the 243-run victory over South Africa, the four contenders for the medal were asked to stand in a circle by the sight screen and a camera buggy panned on each player before freezing on the eventual winner, captain Rohit Sharma. Below are the other the medal-winning announcements.
In Mumbai, after a massive win over Sri Lanka, local boy and World Cup winner Sachin Tendulkar announced the medal winner - Shreyas Iyer.
In Lucknow after India's 100-run win over England, Dilip plunged the whole stadium into darkness before lighting up the winner's name - KL Rahul.
In Dharamsala, after they beat New Zealand, he got the Spidercam to deliver the medal to Iyer.
In Pune, after India's seven-wicket win over Bangladesh, he announced Ravindra Jadeja's win via the giant screen on the ground.