Arjuna award winners: Mohammed Shami joins Rohit, Kohli, Ashwin to win prestigious laurel

Indian pacer Mohammed Shami has joined Indian stars like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin in the elite group who have won the prestigious Arjuna Award. Shami received the award from President of India Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Let us look at the Arjuna Award winner cricketer list.

Virat Kohli Arjuna Award

Virat Kohli won the award in 2013 for his remarkable performance in the ODI format.

Rohit Sharma Arjuna Award

India captain Rohit Sharma received the Arjuna award after Virat Kohli. He won the award in 2015.

Has MS Dhoni got Arjuna Award?

MS Dhoni did not get the Arjuna Award in his cricketing career.

Arjuna Award winner cricketer list

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