File photograph of R Ashwin© X (Twitter)
Former Indian cricket staff spinner R Ashwin was awarded the Padma Shri award as the ultimate checklist of 139 people was unveiled for the coveted civilian awards on Saturday. Ashwin’s former teammate Subramaniam Badrinath took to social media to congratulate the spinner on his huge achievement. “First TN cricketer to get a Padma Shri. Cannot ask for a greater function mannequin for any teen, feeling proud, actually deserved @ashwinravi99,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter). Nevertheless, he was corrected by one other former cricketer WV Raman who identified that Ashwin was not the primary Tamil Nadu cricketer to be awarded Padma Shri. Legendary spinner Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003 – a indisputable fact that WV Raman identified in his reply on social media.
Former males’s hockey captain P R Sreejesh was chosen for the Padma Bhushan, whereas recently-retired cricket star Ravichandran Ashwin was among the many Padma Shri winners as 4 athletes and a para-athletics coach figured within the checklist of 139 that was unveiled for the coveted civilian awards on Saturday.
Venkatraghavan is the primary TN cricketer to get a Padma Shri in 2003! https://t.co/eRzj2EuRnb
— WV Raman (@wvraman) January 25, 2025
Legendary Indian footballer I M Vijayan and India’s first Paralympic gold medal-winning archer Harvinder Singh too had been named for the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour.
Para athletics coach Satyapal Singh, who mentored Paris Paralympics gold-winning and Khel Ratna-awardee high-jumper Praveen Kumar, would even be bestowed with the Padma Shri.
“It is (award) due to the religion reposed in me by so many individuals. I’ve been related to Praveen Kumar since 2018 and a variety of credit score goes to my ward for this award,” Satyapal instructed PTI.
The 5 had been picked for the Padma awards by President Droupadi Murmu on the eve of the 76th Republic Day.
The 36-year-old Sreejesh, who retired after profitable a second successive Olympic bronze with the nationwide staff in Paris Olympics, is at the moment the top coach of the junior males’s staff.
(With PTI inputs)
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