Full list of Indian cricketers to be honored with the prestigious Arjuna Award

Mohammed Shami became the most recent Indian male cricketer to win the Arjuna Award on January 9, 2024. This award is one of the biggest honors that an athlete can get in India for a brilliant performance in the respective sport. The Arjuna Award is the second-highest award in India, after the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. It was first awarded back in 1961.

The first individual to receive this prestigious award was Salim Durani. Until now, there have been a total of 70 cricketers to receive this award. Among those, 58 are male and 12 are female cricketers. Here, we will talk about the list of cricketers to win the Arjuna Award.

List of Cricketers to win the Arjuna Award

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
1972 – Eknath Solkar
1975 – Sunil Gavaskar
1976 – Shantha Rangaswamy
1977-78 – Gundappa Viswanath
1979-80 – Kapil Dev
1980-81 – Chetan Chauhan
1980-81 – Syed Kirmani
1981 – Dilip Vengsarkar
1982 – Mohinder Amarnath
1983 – Diana Edulji
1984 – Ravi Shastri
1985 – Shubhangi Kulkarni
1986 – Sandhya Agarwal
1986 – Mohammad Azharuddin
1989 – Madan Lal
1993 – Manoj Prabhakar and
1993 – Kiran More
1994 – Sachin Tendulkar
1995 – Anil Kumble
1996 – Javagal Srinath
1997 – Sourav Ganguly
1997 – Ajay Jadeja
1998 – Rahul Dravid
1998 – Nayan Mongia
2000 – Venkatesh Prasad
2001 – VVS Laxman
2002 – Virender Sehwag
2003 – Mithali Raj
2003 – 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
2017 – Cheteshwar Pujara
2018 – Smriti Mandhana
2019 – Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam Yadav
2020 – Deepti Sharma and Ishant Sharma
2021 – Shikhar Dhawan
2023 – Mohammed Shami*