Indian pacer Mohammed Shami has been nominated as one of many 16 sportspersons for the Arjuna Award, the nation’s second-highest sporting honour whereas the badminton duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy have been chosen for the the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The duo of Satwik-Chirag capped off a sensational yr with a Gold within the Asian Games, a primary for India in badminton in Games historical past after having already gained the Swiss Open, Korea Open, China Masters and a Gold within the Asian Championships.
On the opposite hand, Shami was not on the preliminary checklist for the Arjuna Award however was added later after a particular request from the BCCI to the sports activities ministry. Shami, who did not play the primary 4 matches within the World Cup, ended up because the main wicket-taker of the match with 24 scalps in simply seven matches. Shami picked three five-wicket hauls together with a career-best 7/57 towards New Zealand within the semi-finals and proved to be one of many necessary explanation why India bought to the ultimate of the match.
Apart from Shami, different athletes nominated for Arjuna Award embody archers Ojas Pravin Deotale and Aditi Gopichand Swami, boxer Mohammad Hussamuddin, chess participant R Vaishali, who lately grew to become a grandmaster, shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, wrestler Antim Panghal and desk tennis participant Ayhika Mukherjee amongst many others.
Here’s the complete checklist of 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 (taking pictures), Antim Panghal (wrestling), Ayhika Mukherjee (desk tennis).
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).
(With PTI inputs)
