India's best fielder delivered with poetry
Who's the winner?
ESPNcricinfo staff
17-Nov-2023
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.