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Mohammed Shami dedicated Arjun Award to his mother and wrote this emotional note
Shami reached his home in Amroha and dedicated this award to his mother and also wrote an emotional post for the fans.
Indian star pacer Mohammed Shami bowled strongly in the ODI World Cup 2023 and took the maximum of 24 wickets for India. He did this performance when he had to wait for his turn on the bench in the first four matches.
For this brilliant performance, Shami has been honored with the Arjuna Award by President Draupadi Murmu. Shami reached his home in Amroha and dedicated this award to his mother and also wrote an emotional post for the fans. In which he is seen thanking his family, friends and fans who helped him during his cricket journey.
He wrote that thank you very much for this award. This means a lot to me. The Arjuna Award will continue to inspire me to pursue my passion with greater enthusiasm. I feel very honored to receive the award. I was raised by the best parents in the entire universe. I thank my family members, friends and fans for their sacrifice, support, love, care. Keep supporting and loving me like this.
List of cricketers who have received Arjuna Award so far:
1961 - Salim Durani
1964 - Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
1965 - Vijay Manjrekar
1966 - Chandu Borde
1967 - Ajit Wadekar
1968 - Erapalli Anantrao Srinivas
1969 - Bishan Singh Bedi
1970 - Dilip Sardesai
1971 - Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
1972 - Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrashekhar and Eknath Solkar
1975 - Sunil Gavaskar
1976 - Shantha Rangaswami
1977-78 - Gundappa Vishwanath
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