New Delhi: Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has been honored with the prestigious award five years after he was recommended for the Arjuna Award. Pujara could not attend the award ceremony in 2017 due to his cricketing commitments.
He finally got a chance to lift the trophy at the ‘hand over’ ceremony here on Saturday. After receiving the award from Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, he tweeted, “Thank you BCCI and Anurag Thakur for organizing this honor to hand over the Arjuna Awards. I could not take it that year due to my cricketing commitments. Honored and grateful for this.”
Thanks to @IndiaSports, @BCCI and @ianuragthakur to organize and handover the Arjuna Award belatedly, which I could not collect the year it was awarded to me due to my cricket commitments. Honored and grateful pic.twitter.com/Dokz4ZP3Hs
— Cheteshwar Pujara (@cheteshwar1) October 19, 2022
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Pujara plays domestic cricket for Saurashtra, he is in the capital Delhi for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He will be part of the India A team that will tour Bangladesh for a two-Test series next month. Pujara returned to the Indian team after a string of impressive performances in county cricket, having played 96 Tests. (agency)