‘Rohit till end, Bumrah for last over’: Surya, Gill, Samson and stars deliver fun rapid-fire at BCCI Naman Awards

The best of Indian cricket descended upon the national capital, Delhi, as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) hosted a glittering Naman Awards 2026 ceremony on Sunday. Rahul Dravid, Roger Binny and Mithali Raj were conferred with the BCCI Lifetime Achievement awards, while Shubman Gill and Smriti Mandhana won the Best International Cricketer (men) and Best International Cricketer (women) awards, respectively.

India’s ICC tournament-winning teams, including the T20 World Cup 2026, Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, and the U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup and U-19 Men’s ODI World Cup winners, were also felicitated at the awards ceremony.

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Host Harsha Bhogle also held some interesting, funny and light discussions with a few star cricketers. One of the viral roundtables was with Suryakumar Yadav, Shubman Gill and Harmanpreet Kaur. Harsha asked the three captains about who would be their pick to bowl the under-pressure final over, and to bat during the last over to win a match.

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While Sruyakumar picked Bumrah as his first choice to bowl the final over, Gill said having Rohit Sharma till the end will be his preferred choice.

Here are the responses from Suryakumar, Gill and Harmanpreet:

Suryakumar Yadav: “Bumrah definitely. Though I don’t want to take any credit away from Arshdeep Singh, but then, definitely, Jaspreet Bumrah. Hardik? Definitely, Hardik Pandya.”

Harmanpreet Kaur: “I think, Deepti. Batting. I think Smriti (Mandhana). She has been getting all the awards, and she deserved to play that over.”

Shubman Gill: Uh… “I mean, Arshdeep, if he’s not bowling wide yorkers. Sometimes one over becomes a 2-over over. If Rohit Bhai is there till the end, it would be amazing.”

They were also asked if there was one match they would want to replay again.

Suryakumar Yadav: “Definitely, the 2023 World Cup Final, at Ahmedabad. Love to replay that again and win it.”

Harmanpreet Kaur: “Personal scores that give you, you know, a little bit of happiness, but winning a trophy, that means everything. I think the World Cup final, 2017, if we can, again, at least last 10 overs, not more, at least that’s there, nobody we can play again and yeah.”

Shubman Gill: “Surya bhai said the ’23 final. So I think one match that I had to really, I think the Oval match that we want, just to relive the whole experience again. I think it was a great match to be in a great series to be a part of.”

Rapid-fire with Abhishek, Samson, Pandya and Sooryavanshi 

Harsha also held a Rapid-Fire round with Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in which he asked different questions to the star players.

The first question was about who their idol was while growing up, and here’s how they responded.

Abhishek Sharma: Yuvraj Singh

Sanju Samson: Sachin Tendulkar

Hardik Pandya: Wasim Jaffer

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: Brian Lara and Yuvraj Singh

The second question was on their first video game.

Abhishek Sharma: EA Sports’ Cricket 07

Sanju Samson: GTA Vice City

Hardik Pandya: WWE

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: “Sir, I don’t play video games.”

The next question was about their first car or bike.

Abhishek Sharma: Honda Active scooty

Sanju Samson: Maruti Wagon R

Hardik Pandya: Maruti 800

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: “I have not bought anything yet.”

First match that you saw in a stadium?

Sanju Samson: “I think it was an IPL game that I was part of. I never went to the stadium to watch a match.”

Favourite movie or favourite actor?

Abhishek Sharma: “Favourite movie, 3 Idiots for sure. Actors always keep changing.”

Sanju Samson: “Any movie of Rajinikanth sir.”

Hardik Pandya: “My choice is odd, but I really like Godzilla.”

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: Dhurandhar.