Rohit Sharma, who performed splendidly in the one-day World Cup a year ago, has been suggested by the BCCI for the ‘Khel Ratna‘ Award. The Indian Cricket Board gave this data on Saturday. Rohit’s initial accomplice Shikhar Dhawan‘s name has by and by been sent for the Arjuna Award.
The name of India’s senior-most quick bowler Ishant Sharma has likewise been suggested for the Arjuna Award. Let the left-gave batsman Dhawan miss the Arjuna Award in 2018. In the ladies’ classification, all-rounder Deepti Sharma has been named for the Arjuna Award, which has been performing splendidly in both ODIs and T20s throughout the previous three years.
Indian captain Virat Kohli was given the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2018. The performance for this year’s Arjuna Award and Khel Ratna from January 2016 to December 2019 will be considered. Due to Coronavirus, this time the Sports Ministry asked for nominations from National Sports Awards contenders by email. The process of sending nominations usually starts in April. But this time due to the lockdown applications have been sought in May.
The Ministry has issued a circular for this. Accordingly, the entire country is under lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic. In this case, instead of sending the nomination documents via post, send the scanned copy of the application directly to the Sports Ministry through e-mail. The BCCI said in a statement that the Sports Ministry of the Indian government had sought applications for tenure from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
In the statement, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly said that we have seen a lot of data and discussed several parameters before choosing these names. Rohit has set many benchmarks as a batsman and has achieved what many players could not. We think he deserves the Khel Ratna.
He said that Ishant is the most senior player in the Test team and he has contributed a lot in making India the number-1 team. Shikhar is also doing well and his performance in the ICC tournaments has been very important. On the other hand, Deepti is an excellent all-rounder and his contribution in the success of the team has also been very useful
