Naman Awards
Celebrating the Best of Indian Cricket

Cricket's Highest Honour; Designed to Match the Standard

The BCCI Naman Awards recognise the best of Indian cricket across every format, every era, and every level of contribution to the game. When the Board of Control for Cricket in India commissioned ABD Xclusiv to design the 2024 medals, the brief was understood immediately: these medals will be held by people who have dedicated their lives to a standard of excellence that most people never approach. The design had to be worthy of that standard. Not decorative, not generic, not the ceremonial equivalent of an afterthought, but an object that the recipient can hold and feel, in the weight and quality of the thing itself, that what they have achieved has been taken seriously.

Designed for Gravitas — Material Intelligence in Bespoke Award Design

The Naman Awards medals were designed for gravitas first. Weight was established before visual form, because in the hand, weight communicates significance before any visual detail does. The material selection drew from Indian craft traditions without becoming decorative: the warmth of the metal, the precision of the surface treatment, and the quality of the finishing were all calibrated to communicate the seriousness of what the medal represents. The visual language references Indian cultural symbols of recognition and achievement without using the predictable iconography that makes most cricket awards look interchangeable. Each medal is distinct enough to be memorable, and coherent enough to belong to the same system.

Made in Whitefield, Bangalore, For India's Highest Cricketing Stage

Every Naman Awards 2024 medal was designed and crafted by ABD Xclusiv, Studio ABD's bespoke recognition studio based in Whitefield, Bengaluru. That the medals for Indian cricket's highest recognition ceremony were designed in Bangalore by an Indian studio is itself a statement about what Indian design has become: rigorous enough, confident enough, and craft-intelligent enough to take its place at the highest occasions that Indian culture has to offer. The Naman Awards project is ABD Xclusiv's clearest demonstration of what bespoke trophy design in India looks like when it is held to the same standard as the achievement it honours.