Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan received the prestigious Arjuna Award, on Saturday, from the President of India Ram Nath Kovind. Indian para-athletes who won medals in Tokyo 2020 Paralympics were among the 35 recipients of the award.

The President of India Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Sports Awards on Saturday.

Also Read: Shikhar Dhawan smashes Sunil Narine for consecutive sixes, watch here

Shikhar Dhawan has been playing for the Indian national cricket team for over a decade now and has done well while doing so. However, he wasn’t in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup 2021 in the UAE, where India got knocked out of the tournament early and couldn’t make it to the semifinals of the tournament.

However, Dhawan is a strong cog in India’s One-Day International schemes, where he comes to open the innings with Rohit Sharma and the duo form a formidable partnership together.

Dhawan was instrumental with his bat in the Delhi Capitals’ campaign in the recent years of the Indian Premier League. In the IPL 2020, Delhi Capitals reached the final and Dhawan was among the leading run-scorers of the tournament. He notched up back-to-back centuries to become the first-ever player to achieve the feat in the history of IPL.

Also Read: Shikhar Dhawan is looking forward to keep wearing the orange cap

List of the Arjuna Award winners: Simranjit Kaur (Hockey), Bhavani Devi (Fencing), Monika (Hockey), Vandana Katariya (Hockey), Sandeep Narwal (Kabaddi), Hiimani Uttam Parab (Mallakhamb), Abhishek Verma (Shooting), Ankita Raina (Tennis), Deepak Punia (Wrestling), Dilpreet Singh (Hockey), Harman Preet Singh (Hockey), Rupinder Pal Singh (Hockey), Surender Kumar (Hockey), Amit Rohidas (Hockey), Birendra Lakra (Hockey), Sumit (Hockey), Nilakanta Sharma (Hockey), Hardik Singh (Hockey), Vivek Sagar Prasad (Hockey), Gurjant Singh (Hockey), Mandeep Singh (Hockey), Shamsher Singh (Hockey), Lalit Kumar Upadhyay (Hockey), Varun Kumar (Hockey), Simranjeet Singh (Hockey), Yogesh Kathuniya (Para-Athletics), Nishad Kumar (Para-Athletics), Praveen Kumar (Para-Athletics), Singhraj Adhana (Para Shooting), Harvinder Singh (Para Archery), and Sharad Kumar (Para-Athletics) are other athletes who were conferred with the prestiguous award.