Full list of Indian cricketers to win the Padma Shri award

On Sunday, January 25, former Indian Cricket Team captain Rohit Sharma along with Indian Women’s Cricket Team skipper Harmanpreet Kaur were conferred with the Padma Shri award. The development was made public by the Indian government on Sunday.

Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur now join the list of 40 other Indian cricketers to have received the Padma Shri Award. The Padma Shri award notably is notably the fourth-highest civilian award, after the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, and Padma Bhushan.

The first Indian cricketer to get the Padma Shri Award was former captain Vijay Hazare when he was conferred with the Padma Shri, way back in 1960. Last year Ravichandran Ashwin after his retirement was given the award. And now Rohit and Harmanpreet Kaur will join them.

Rohit Sharma guided India to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 win, while Harmanpreet Kaur took the Women’s team to the World Cup win. For their contributions, they were awarded the Padma Shri. 

Full list of Indian cricketers to win the Padma Shri award

• 1. Vijay Hazare – 1960
• 2. Jasu Patel – 1960
• 3. Nari Contractor – 1962
• 4. Polly Umrigar – 1962
• 5. Syed Mushtaq Ali – 1963
• 6. M.J. Gopalan – 1964
• 7. D.B. Deodhar – 1965
• 8. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi – 1967
• 9. Chandu Borde – 1969
• 10. Bishan Singh Bedi – 1970
• 11. E.A.S Prasanna – 1970
• 12. Gundappa Vishwanath – 1971
• 13. B.S Chandrasekhar – 1972
• 14. Ajit Wadekar – 1972
• 15. Farokh Engineer – 1973
• 16. Pankaj Roy – 1975
• 17. Syed Kirmani – 1982
• 18. Kapil Dev – 1982
• 19. Chuni Goswami – 1984
• 20. Mohammad Shahid – 1986
• 21. Dilip Vengsarkar – 1987
• 22. Mohammad Azharuddin – 1988
• 23. Sachin Tendulkar – 1999
• 24. Diana Edulji – 2002
• 25. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan – 2003
• 26. Rahul Dravid – 2004
• 27. Sourav Ganguly – 2004
• 28. Anil Kumble – 2005
• 29. MS Dhoni – 2009
• 30. Harbhajan Singh – 2009
• 31. Virender Sehwag – 2010
• 32. VVS Laxman – 2011
• 33. Jhulan Goswami – 2012
• 34. Yuvraj Singh – 2014
• 35. Mithali Raj – 2015
• 36. Virat Kohli – 2017
• 37. Gautam Gambhir – 2019
• 38. Zaheer Khan – 2020
• 39. Gurcharan Singh – 2023
• 40. Ravichandran Ashwin – 2025
• 41. Rohit Sharma – 2026
• 42. Harmanpreet Kaur -2026