Grassroots cricket starts early, ends late, and still shows up again next week.
It happens on the same familiar grounds, with the same routines. Net sessions after work, long travel, last minute team changes, someone always finding a scorer, someone always arranging balls. Seasons blur into each other, but the effort stays steady.
That is what keeps this game alive. Not attention. Continuity.
CricHeroes Awards 2025 is our way of respecting that continuity and putting it on record.
Now in its fifth year, the Awards has grown into a structured system of recognition. One that tracks performance, participation, and contribution as they build up across the grassroots cricket ecosystem.
What was recognised
In 2025, more than 270 unique cricketing entities were formally recognised through the CricHeroes Awards, across India, the Middle East, and the Americas and Australia.
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This includes winners, runner ups, and second runner ups across categories, because grassroots cricket is rarely about one name standing alone. It is about depth. It is about how many people and teams kept performing, kept competing, kept showing up.
Recognition did not stop at individual players.
Teams, tournaments, and community contributors were also recognised, because the grassroots game moves forward through shared effort. Players are at different stages of their journey. Teams built over seasons. Contributors whose work makes the game possible to organise, record, and follow.
That is what the Awards try to reflect. Not a simplified version of grassroots cricket, but the real structure of it.
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The categories
The 2025 recognition was structured across six areas, so the full picture of the grassroots game comes through.
Individual performance
Batting, bowling, and all-round contributions, backed by verified match data.
Emerging players
Progress over the season. Growth that tells you someone is getting better, not just someone had one peak match.
Veterans
Longevity, consistency, and the kind of experience you only earn by playing year after year.
Community contributors
Scorers, umpires, commentators, organisers, streamers. The people who form the backbone of grassroots cricket and make weekends happen.
Teams
Collective effort, consistency, and the grind of staying competitive across competitions.
Tournaments
Structure, organisation, and continuity. Competitions that keep participation alive, week after week.
Together, these categories are our attempt to recognise grassroots cricket the way it actually works.
What was new in 2025
This year, a few long-pending gaps were finally addressed.
Region-specific Awards, for the first time
Recognition was structured separately for India, the Middle East, the Americas and Australia. This matters because comparing performances across completely different playing conditions, volumes, and formats is not fair to the game or the players. Region-wise evaluation keeps the context honest.
Format level recognition expanded
Tennis ball cricket was given dedicated categories, split by match length.
1 to 12 overs
13 plus overs
That split matters because performance in different match lengths is a different challenge, and it deserves to be judged in the right context.
Box cricket was formally included
For the first time, Box cricket became a recognised format, introduced for India, where it is a serious and organised segment of grassroots cricket.
These changes move the Awards closer to the reality of how grassroots cricket is played today.
Credibility and process
Recognition only means something when it is trusted.
Every CricHeroes Award is grounded in recorded match data, eligibility checks, and consistent evaluation criteria applied across regions and formats. The idea is simple.
If it was played and it was logged, it can be recognised.
That is the standard we protect.
The Popularity Awards
Alongside the data-backed Awards, the Popularity Awards bring in the community voice.
Nominees are shortlisted based on year-round performance before voting opens. Then the community steps in.
In 2025, 148,471 votes were cast across 10 categories.
This is not just about visibility. It is about participation. People vote with access to player profiles and stats, so it adds to the larger recognition framework instead of fighting it.
What this tells us
CricHeroes Awards 2025 exists to create records.
It comes from a simple belief that grassroots cricket deserves to be documented with the same seriousness as it is played.
Performance belongs in that record.
Participation belongs in that record.
The contribution belongs in that record.
That is how grassroots cricket is recognised here.
By being accounted for, year after year.
I am Manan Joshi , SEO All-Rounder at CricHeroes.
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