C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

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C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded forLifetime Achievement in Indian cricket
Sponsored by Board of Control for Cricket in India
First awarded1994
Highlights
First winner Lala Amarnath
Last winner Krishnamachari Srikkanth

The Colonel C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award is an award presented by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to individuals who provided unparalleled contribution to Indian cricket. [1] It is the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player [2] [3] and is considered as one of the most prestigious awards in cricket. [4] [5] The award includes a trophy, citation, and cash prize of 25 lakh. [1]

The award is named after named after Colonel C. K. Nayudu (1895–1967), India's first Test cricket captain widely regarded as 'India's first cricket superstar' [6] with a first-class career spanning over 47 years from 1916 to 1963 a world record. [7]

Nayudu's teammate and India's first test centurion, Lala Amarnath was the first recipient of the award in 1994. K. N. Prabhu is the only sports journalist to have won the award. [8] Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, and B. B. Nimbalkar are the only non-Test cricketers to have been honoured. [9] Lala Amarnath and Mohinder Amarnath are the only father-son duo to have received the honour. Krishnamachari Srikkanth is the recipient of the award in 2019. Ravi Shastri and Farokh Engineer are most the recent recipients of the award in 2024. [10] [11]

Recipients

C. K. Nayudu, after whom the award is named CK Nayudu 1930s.jpg
C. K. Nayudu, after whom the award is named
Col C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award winners
YearRecipientImageRef
1994 Lala Amarnath Lala Amarnath at Lord's 1936.jpg [12]
1995 Syed Mushtaq Ali Mushtaq Ali 1936.jpg [12]
1996 Vijay Hazare [12]
1997 K. N. Prabhu [12]
1998 Polly Umrigar [13]
1999 Hemu Adhikari [13]
2000 Subhash Gupte [8]
2001 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi [8]
2002 B. B. Nimbalkar Cricketer B. B. Nimbalkar, c. 1949.jpg [13]
2003 Chandu Borde [14]
2004 Bishan Singh Bedi
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
E. A. S. Prasanna
B. S. Chandrasekhar
[14]
2007 Nari Contractor [14]
2008 Gundappa Viswanath [2]
2009 Mohinder Amarnath MohinderAmarnath.jpg [13] [15]
2010 Salim Durani [14]
2011 Ajit Wadekar [3]
2012 Sunil Gavaskar Sunny Gavaskar Sahara.jpg [16] [17]
2013 Kapil Dev Kapil Dev at Equation sports auction (cropped).jpg [12]
2014 Dilip Vengsarkar DilipVengsarkar.jpg [5]
2015 Syed Kirmani Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani.jpg [18] [19]
2016 Rajinder Goel
Padmakar Shivalkar
[20]
2017 Pankaj Roy [10]
2018 Anshuman Gaekwad Anshuman.JPG [21]
2019 Krishnamachari Srikkanth Former cricketer K. Srikkanth meets PM Modi (cropped).jpg [11]
2023 Farokh Engineer [22]
Ravi Shastri Ravi Shastri (1).jpg

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