Mohammed Shami
| Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi
Pacer Mohammed Shami has been nominated for this yr’s Arjuna Award, whereas the boys’s doubles badminton pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been nominated for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
As per the Ministry’s sources, a particular request was made by the BCCI to the sports activities ministry to incorporate Shami’s title as he initially didn’t determine within the record.
The nominees:
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award: Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (badminton).
Arjuna Award: Mohammed Shami (cricket), Ajay Reddy (blind cricket) Ojas Pravin Deotale, Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery), Sheetal Devi (para archery), Parul Chaudhary and M. Sreeshankar (athletics), Mohd Hussamuddin (boxing), R. Vaishali (chess), Divyakriti Singh and Anush Agarwalla (equestrian), Diksha Dagar (golf), Krishan Bahadur Pathak and Sushila Chanu (hockey), Pinky (garden ball), Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (capturing), Antim Panghal (wrestling) and Ayhika Mukherjee (desk tennis).
Dhyan Chand Lifetime Award: Kavita (kabaddi), Manjusha Kanwar (badminton) and Vineet Kumar Sharma (hockey).
Dronacharya Award: Ganesh Prabhakaran (mallakhamb), Mahavir Saini (para athletics), Lalit Kumar (wrestling), R.B. Ramesh (chess) and Shivendra Singh (hockey).
