Full list of Indian cricketers to be conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award
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Mohammed Shami is the most recent Indian cricketer to receive the prestigious Arjuna Award.
The Arjuna Award is one of the biggest honors that is given to a sportsperson in India. It is also known as the Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games. It is next best to the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. In 1961, a total of 20 individuals from different sports categories received this award from the government of India, of which seven were cricketers.
Salim Durani was the first Indian cricketer to receive this honor. So far, a total of 58 Indian cricketers have received the Arjuna Award, including 12 female cricketers. Veteran Indian pacer Mohammed Shami became the most recent cricketer to feature on this elite list for his immense contributions to the Indian men’s cricket team. Below is the list of all the cricketers that have received the Arjuna Award so far.
List of all Indian male cricketers to be conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award
1. 1961 Salim Durani
2. 1964 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
3. 1965 Vijay Manjrekar
4. 1966 Chandu Borde
5. 1967 Ajit Wadekar
6. 1968 E. A. S. Prasanna
7. 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi
8. 1970 Dilip Sardesai
9. 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
10. 1972 B. S. Chandrashekhar
11. 1972 Eknath Solkar
12. 1975 Sunil Gavaskar
13. 1977–1978 Gundappa Viswanath
14. 1979–1980 Kapil Dev
15. 1980–1981 Chetan Chauhan
16. 1980–1981 Syed Kirmani
17. 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar
18. 1982 Mohinder Amarnath
19. 1984 Ravi Shastri
20. 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin
21. 1989 Madan Lal
22. 1993 Kiran More
23. 1993 Manoj Prabhakar
24. 1994 Sachin Tendulkar
25. 1995 Anil Kumble
26. 1996 Javagal Srinath
27. 1997 Sourav Ganguly
28. 1997 Ajay Jadeja
29. 1998 Rahul Dravid
30. 1998 Nayan Mongia
31. 2000 Venkatesh Prasad
32. 2001 VVS Laxman
33. 2002 Virender Sehwag
34. 2003 Harbhajan Singh
35. 2009 Gautam Gambhir
36. 2011 Zaheer Khan
37. 2012 Yuvraj Singh
38. 2013 Virat Kohli
39. 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin
40. 2015 Rohit Sharma
41. 2016 Ajinkya Rahane
42. 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara
43. 2019 Ravindra Jadeja
44 2020 Ishant Sharma
45. 2021 Shikhar Dhawan
46. 2023 Mohammed Shami
List of all Indian female cricketers to be conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award
1. 1976 Shantha Rangaswamy
2. 1983 Diana Edulji
3. 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni
4. 1986 Sandhya Agarwal
5. 2003 Mithali Raj
6. 2005 Anju Jain
7. 2006 Anjum Chopra
8. 2010 Jhulan Goswami
9. 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur
10. 2018 Smriti Mandhana
11. 2019 Poonam Yadav
12. 2020 Deepti Sharma
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