Hyderabad: Indian cricket fast bowler Mohammed Shami has earned a nomination for the prestigious Arjuna Award. Meanwhile, the badminton pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been selected for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
According to sources from the ministry, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) made a special request to include Shami’s name, citing his remarkable performance as the leading wicket-taker in the World Cup with an impressive tally of 24 wickets.
The list of nominees for the awards includes:
Arjuna Award:
- Mohammed Shami (cricket)
- Ajay Reddy (blind cricket)
- Ojas Pravin Deotale, Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery)
- Sheetal Devi (para archery)
- Parul Chaudhary & M Sreeshankar (athletics)
- Mohd Hussamuddin (boxing)
- R Vaishali (chess)
- Divyakriti Singh & Anush Agarwalla (equestrian)
- Diksha Dagar (golf)
- Krishan Bahadur Pathak and Sushila Chanu (hockey)
- Pinky (lawn ball)
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting)
- Antim Panghal (wrestling)
- Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis)
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award:
- Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (badminton)
Dhyan Chand Lifetime Award:
- Kavita (kabaddi)
- Manjusha Kanwar (badminton)
- Vineet Kumar Sharma (hockey)
Dronacharya Award:
- Ganesh Prabhakaran (mallakhamb)
- Mahavir Saini (para athletics)
- Lalit Kumar (wrestling)
- RB Ramesh (chess)
- Shivendra Singh (hockey)
This recognition adds another feather to the cap of these exceptional athletes, celebrating their outstanding contributions to their respective sports.
