Indian cricket workforce star pacer Mohammed Shami was on Tuesday conferred with the Arjuna Award. Shami has been in phenomenal type of late. He was the best wicket-taker (24 in seven video games) on the Cricket World Cup 2023. Shami is at the moment recovering from an ankle damage, was there to obtain the honours and the group duly acknowledged his achievements by giving him and his artwork the delight of place with an ovation.
“In the present day I’m feeling very proud that I’ve been honored with the celebrated Arjuna Award by the President. I need to thank all these individuals who have helped me rather a lot to achieve right here and have all the time supported me in my ups and downs… due to My Coach, BCCI,workforce mates,my household, employees and massive due to my followers..Because of recognise my laborious work..I’ll all the time attempt to give my greatest to make my nation proud… Once more due to everybody.. Congratulations to others arjun award winners,” Mohammed Shami wrote in a submit on Instagram.
Virat Kohli congratulated Mohammed Shami, saying: “Mubarak ho lala”
“My purpose is to maintain myself match so far as attainable, as the subsequent two tournaments and sequence are large. I’ll give attention to health,” he advised PTI at a sports activities ministry reception final night time.
Additionally receiving an enormous spherical of applause was the newly-crowned chess Grandmaster R. Vaishali, the elder sister of precocious chess expertise R. Praggnanandhaa.
Vaishali was honoured for changing into the third girl from the nation after Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika to show GM.
Different sporting bigwigs who had been chosen for the Arjuna award this yr had been wrestler Antim Panghal, a former junior world champion and bronze-winner on the senior occasion final yr, boxer Mohammad Hussamuddin (bronze-winner eventually yr’s world championship), and athlete Parul Chaudhary.
Among the many notable Dronacharya awardees this yr is chess coach RB Ramesh, who has groomed Praggnanandhaa.
Whereas the Khel Ratna comes with a money prize of Rs 25 lakh, the Arjuna and Dronacharya awards embody a money prize of Rs 15 lakh.
The recipients (2023 awards): Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award for 2023: Chirag Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy (badminton).
Arjuna Awards: Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery), Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery), Murali Sreeshankar (athletics), Parul Chaudhary (athletics), Mohammad Hussamuddin (boxing), R Vaishali (chess), Mohammed Shami (cricket), Anush Agarwalla (equestrian), Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage), Diksha Dagar (golf), Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey), Sushila Chanu (hockey), Pawan Kumar (kabaddi), Ritu Negi (kabaddi), Nasreen (kho-kho), Pinki (garden bowls), Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (capturing), Esha Singh (capturing), Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash), Ayhika Mukherjee (desk tennis), Sunil Kumar (wrestling), Antim Panghal (wrestling), Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu), Sheetal Devi (para archery), Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket), Prachi Yadav (para canoeing).
With PTI inputs
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