Cricketer Samit Patel, who is currently representing England in the West Indies won the coveted Sports Personality of the year award at the British Asian Sports Awards on Saturday 21st February. Tennis player Vijay Amritraj was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Other winners on the night included: Salil Navapurkar, aged 9 from Northwood in Middlesex for Young Sports Personality of the Year (under 10) , Manisha Chowdhary, aged 16 from Pinner in Middlesex for Junior Sports Personality of the Year (under 18, female) and Joshua Sharma, aged 14 from Swindon for Junior Sports Personality of the Year (under 18, male).

Sunny Hira, aged 25 from Birmingham won for the Most Up and Coming Sports Personality of the Year; Barinder Singh, aged 25 from Leicester for Outstanding Achievement Award, Jagtar Singh Johal, aged 41 from Leicester for Coach of the Year, Samit Patel, aged 24 from Nottingham for The British Asian Sports Awards Sports Personality of the year, Surinder Arora for Community Business in Sport and Mahendra Singh Dhoni for International Sports Personality of the Year.

Former England cricketer and BASA brand Ambassador Mark Ramprakash, who was honoured with a champagne moment for scoring one-hundred 100's in first class cricket describes the event, "Today's ceremony was spectacular! I am truly humbled to have received this award for what I would describe as the most cherished moment in my cricketing career. I would also like to give my heartfelt congratulations to all the winners and their proud parents."

The shortlisted nominees and winners were joined by a host of industry figures, national and international celebrities and leading sports icons including boxing promoters Frank Maloney and Frank Warren, the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race, Tracy Edwards (MBE), Olympic gold medal winner Denise Lewis OBE, Dragon's Den panellist and business entrepreneur James Caan and ex-footballer Peter Reid. Performances on the night were provided by Escala, Shola Ama, Mutya Buena, Soul ll Soul, Kunal Ganjawalla and Lemar.

British Asian Sports Awards:

The nominees this year were:

Young Sports Personality of the Year (under 10)
o Hanif Hussain, Football, 10, Bradford
o Salil Navapurkar, Tennis, 9, Middlesex
o Abdul-Akbur Ali, Tae Kwando, 8, Luton

Junior Sports Personality of the Year (under 18, female)
o Nischele Patel, Football, 15, Middlesex
o Janaba Khatun, Tae Kwando, 17, North West London
o Manisha Chowdhary, Tennis, 16 Middlesex

Junior Sports Personality of the Year (under 18, male)
o Ferrari Khalil Faqiri, Karate, Tae Kwando, 17, Preston
o Joshua Sharma, Football, 14, Swindon
o Azeem Rafiq, Cricket, 17, Barnsley

Most Up and Coming Sports Personality of the Year
o Netan Sansara, Football, 19, West Midlands
o Sunny Hira, Kickboxing, 25, Birmingham
o Adil Rashid, Cricket, 20, Bradford

Outstanding Achievement Award
o Barinder Singh, Full Contact Kickboxing, 25, Leicester
o Mesba Ahmed, Football, 39, North West London
o Ajmal Ahmed, Football, 28, Liverpool

Coach of the Year
o Kash Gill, Kickboxing, 42, West Midlands
o Tafazzul Islam, Football, 25, North West London
o Jagtar Singh Johal, Full Contact Kickboxing, 41, Leicester

The British Asian Sports Awards Sports Personality of the Year
o Owais Shah, Cricket, 30
o Ravi Bopara, Cricket, 28
o Samit Patel, Cricket, 24

Community Business in Sport
o Jasbir Athwal
o Manoj Badale
o Surinder Arora

International Sports Personality of the Year
o Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Cricket
o Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
o Abhinav Bindra, Olympic Gold Medallist

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Judges for the British Asian Sports Awards this year were:

• Mark Ramprakash - BASA Ambassador and former English cricketer.
• Mihir Bose - BBC Sports Editor
• Rajan Singh - Executive Vice-President for International Business, Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
• Tracy Edwards (MBE) - the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht
• Denise Lewis (OBE) - Olympic Gold medallist