Former India spin spearhead Ravichandran Ashwin has been awarded the prestigious Padma Shri award as he has joined cricketing icons Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, who received the honor in the past.
The Padma awards – one of the highest civilian honours of the country – are being conferred on the eve of the Republic Day. The Padma Awards are conferred in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
Before Ravichandran Ashwin, a number of cricketers were bestowed with the prestigious Padma Shri Award. Some of the former cricketers to win the award are Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Azharuddin, MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Gavaskar, Sourav Ganguly, Virat Kohli and Anil Kumble.
Cricketer R Ashwin awarded a Padma Shri
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Ravichandran Ashwin’s international career in numbers:
Ravichandran Ashwin brought down the curtains on his illustrious international career after the Brisbane Test against Australia last month. The off-spinner decided to retire from international cricket following the conclusion of the third Test of the five-match series.
He retired from international cricket as one of India’s most successful bowlers in Tests. The 38-year-old ended his career as the seventh-highest wicket-taker in Test history. Among Indians, only Anil Kumble has more wickets than Ravichandran Ashwin in the longest format of the game.
He represented India in 106 Tests and picked up a staggering 537 wickets. He made a big impact with the bat as well, scoring 3503 runs with six hundreds and 14 fifties. Widely regarded as one of India’s greatest match-winners, Ashwin bagged a record 11 Player-of-the-Series awards, level with Muttiah Muralitharan.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who made his debut for Team India in 2010, represented the national team in both the white-ball formats as well. He was a part of the Indian team that won the World Cup in 2011 and qualified for the final in 2023.
He played a total of 116 ODIs and picked up 156 wickets an average of 33.20. In T20Is, Ashwin played 65 games and took 72 wickets. While Ashwin has retired from international cricket, he will continue to ply his trade in IPL. In the IPL 2025 mega auction, he was signed up by his first IPL team, Chennai Super Kings.
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