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Mohammed Shami Arjuna Award: List Of Cricketers To Have Won The Award

image-lr64of8xMohammed Shami receiving Arjuna Award from Indian President, Draupadi Murmu (x.com)

The Arjuna Award is particularly a sporting award and is presented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Indian Government. This specific award is the second-highest sporting award after the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award. Today, Indian fast-bowler, Mohammed Shami has been awarded the Arjuna Award for his on-field performances in the year 2023, where he was the highest wicket-taker in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023. 

This award counts for the performances of the last four years and Mohammed Shami with his invaluable contributions to Indian cricket over the last few years has achieved this badge of honour and will also get a prize money of INR 15 Lakhs. The fast bowler has become the 58th cricketer to have won the award. 

All the legendary cricketers, including Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and many others have received the same honour for their on-field contributions while representing India. 



List of all 58 cricketers including 12 women cricketers

1961 - Salim Durani
1964 - Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
1965 - Vijay Manjrekar
1966 - Chandu Borde
1967 - Ajit Wadekar
1968 - Erapalli Anantharao Srinivas
1969 - Bishan Singh Bedi
1970 - Dilip Sardesai
1971 - Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
1972 - Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar and Eknath Solkar
1975 - Sunil Gavaskar
1976 - Shantha Rangaswamy
1977-78 - Gundappa Viswanath
1979-80 - Kapil Dev
1980-81 - Chetan Chauhan and Syed Kirmani
1981 - Dilip Vengsarkar
1982 - Mohinder Amarnath
1983 - Diana Edulji
1984 - Ravi Shastri
1985 - Shubhangi Kulkarni
1986 - Sandhya Agarwal and Mohammad Azharuddin
1989 - Madan Lal
1993 - Manoj Prabhakar and Kiran More
1994 - Sachin Tendulkar
1995 - Anil Kumble
1996 - Javagal Srinath
1997 - Sourav Ganguly and Ajay Jadeja
1998 - Rahul Dravid and Nayan Mongia
2000 - Venkatesh Prasad
2001 - VVS Laxman
2002 - Virender Sehwag
2003 - Mithali Raj and Harbhajan Singh
2005 - Anju Jain
2006 - Anjum Chopra
2009 - Gautam Gambhir
2010 - Jhulan Goswami
2011 - Zaheer Khan
2012 - Yuvraj Singh
2013 - Virat Kohli
2014 - Ravichandran Ashwin
2015 - Rohit Sharma
2016 - Ajinkya Rahane
2017 - Harmanpreet Kaur and Cheteshwar Pujara
2018 - Smriti Mandhana
2019 - Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam Yadav
2020 - Deepti Sharma and Ishant Sharma
2021 - Shikhar Dhawan
2023 - Mohammed Shami*