The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) conferred the Colonel C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award to Sachin Tendulkar for his contribution to Indian cricket during the Naman Awards held in Mumbai on Saturday.
The award is named after Colonel C. K. Nayudu, India’s first Test cricket captain.
Lala Amarnath, India’s first Test centurion, was the first recipient of the award in 1994, while Tendulkar is the 31st recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ravi Shastri and Farokh Engineer were honoured with this award in 2023.
Here’s the full list of Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award winners:
COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS:
1. Lala Amarnath – 1994
2. Syed Mushtaq Ali – 1995
3. Vijay Hazare – 1996
4. K. N. Prabhu – 1997
5. Polly Umrigar – 1998
6. Hemu Adhikari – 1999
7. Subhash Gupte – 2000
8. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi – 2001
9. B. B. Nimbalkar – 2002
10. Chandu Borde – 2003
11. Bishan Singh Bedi – 2004
12. Srinivas Venkataraghavan – 2004
13. E. A. S. Prasanna – 2004
14. B. S. Chandrasekhar – 2004
15. Nari Contractor – 2007
16. Gundappa Viswanath – 2008
17. Mohinder Amarnath – 2009
18. Salim Durani – 2010
19. Ajit Wadekar – 2011
20. Sunil Gavaskar – 2012
21. Kapil Dev – 2013
22. Dilip Vengsarkar – 2014
23. Syed Kirmani – 2015
24. Rajinder Goel – 2016
25. Padmakar Shivalkar – 2016
26. Pankaj Roy – 2017
27. Anshuman Gaekwad – 2018
28. Krishnamachari Srikkanth – 2019
29. Farokh Engineer – 2023
30. Ravi Shastri – 2023
31. Sachin Tendulkar – 2024