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Vikram Award is an award given by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, India, for outstanding performance in national and international competitions or contribution in the field of sports. The Vikram Award was instituted on May 15, 1990, with a purpose to acknowledge outstanding individual sporting achievements in events such as the Olympic Games ...
He is also the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket and the first sportsperson to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2014. [ 5 ] The second recipient, MS Dhoni , is the former captain of the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
He was conferred the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award, in the year 2008 by the President of India. [10] In 2009, he was the number one ranked batsman in ICC Test rankings. [11] [12] The same year, he was the recipient of the ICC Test Player of the Year award. In December 2018, he announced his retirement from all forms of ...
The BCCI Awards are a set of annual cricket awards given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The awards recognise and honour the best Indian international and domestic cricketers for the past year. The awards were first given in 2006–07. The C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award was first presented in 1994. It is the ...
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It was Bala's tragedy film Sethu (1999) that established Vikram in the Tamil film industry. In the early 2000s Vikram appeared in a series of masala films—Dhill, Gemini, Dhool and Saamy all becoming commercially successful. During this period, Vikram performed diverse roles and received critical acclaim for his performances in Kasi and Samurai.
Venkat retired from first-class cricket in 1985. [26] Venkataraghavan took 1390 wickets in 341 matches and was the second highest wicket taker in first class cricket for India. [27] He also played for Derbyshire in English county cricket from 1973 to 1975. [25]
There are currently four post-tournament awards: the Golden Bat Award (currently termed "ICC Golden Bat") for top run scorer, first awarded in 1975;; the Golden Ball Award (currently termed "ICC Golden Ball") for top wicket getter, first awarded in 1975;