ACES Awards

The Sportstar Aces Awards 2020, which were held in Mumbai on January 13, will be broadcast on Sony Ten 1 on January 26 at 8pm.

The Aces awards celebrate the stars, the future stars and the tireless silent partners who have dedicated their lives to sports, to realise the dream of making India a ‘sporting nation’.

Relaunched in 2019, the second edition of the Aces awards saw Kapil Dev honoured with the lifetime achievement award, while P. V. Sindhu was named the Sportstar of the Year. Australian batsman Steve Smith bagged the Chairman's Choice Award for his remarkable performance in the Ashes.

Swashbuckling Indian opener Rohit Sharma was chosen as the Sportsman of the Year (Cricket) for a hugely successful year, when he finished the top run-scorer at the World Cup and Smriti Mandhana emerged the Sportswoman of the Year (Cricket). The Indian Test team was declared the Team of the Year while Pullela Gopichand and R.B. Ramesh shared the Coach of the Year accolade.

The jury, which presided over all but two awards, was chaired by Sunil Gavaskar and also comprised N. Ram, Chairman, The Hindu Group, Viswanathan Anand, Aparna Popat, Anjali Bhagwat and M.M. Somaya.

You can watch the Sportstar Aces Awards on Sony Ten 1 SD & HD on Sunday 26 January at 8 PM (IST).

1st Repeat : Monday 27 January at 6 PM, 2nd Repeat : Tuesday 28th January at 7 PM