NEW DELHI: Former India cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and multiple world-champion cueist Pankaj Advani won the country's 3rd best possible civilian award, Padma Bhushan, from President Ram Nath Kovind on the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday.
Dhoni, who got here to the rite in his Lieutenant Colonel uniform, walked like an army group of workers when his identify used to be known as upon to receive the award. The Indian Territorial Army had conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Dhoni on November 1, 2011, months after India gained their second World Cup beneath his leadership.
Incidentally, Dhoni is receiving the celebrated award precisely seven years since lifting the ICC Cricket World Cup as India skipper in Mumbai on April 2, 2011. On this day seven years in the past, India ended a 28-year World Cup drought by means of successful their second name in front of a manic home crowd on the Wankhede Stadium.
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The 37-year-old Dhoni is the second one Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to receive this honour.
Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards, together with the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the primary participant to win the award two times), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth best possible civilian honour in 2009.
Just like Dhoni, Advani, 2018 TOISA Snooker/Billiards Player of the Year, additionally has a outstanding profession, having gained gold two times in Asian Games in 2006 Doha and 2010 Guangzhou. He may be a multiple world-champion.
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Besides the duo, ace males's singles shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, former Asian Games gold medallist tennis participant Somdev Devvarman, 2017 World Weightlifting champion within the 48kg class, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, and India's first Paralympic gold medallist, Murlikant Petkar have been conferred the Padma Shri - fourth-highest civilian award - this 12 months.
Three of them, except for Mirabai, had won their awards from the President in a rite on March 21, whilst the weightlifter is in Gold Coast, Australia to take part within the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
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Dhoni, who got here to the rite in his Lieutenant Colonel uniform, walked like an army group of workers when his identify used to be known as upon to receive the award. The Indian Territorial Army had conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Dhoni on November 1, 2011, months after India gained their second World Cup beneath his leadership.
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— ANI (@ANI) 1522674809000Incidentally, Dhoni is receiving the celebrated award precisely seven years since lifting the ICC Cricket World Cup as India skipper in Mumbai on April 2, 2011. On this day seven years in the past, India ended a 28-year World Cup drought by means of successful their second name in front of a manic home crowd on the Wankhede Stadium.
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7 years in the past, 15 Indians and a South African did it for a Billion other people. #WorldCup2011👌✌️ https://t.co/0wS1H0TkRB
— Suresh Raina (@ImRaina) 1522642774000The 37-year-old Dhoni is the second one Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to receive this honour.
Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards, together with the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the primary participant to win the award two times), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth best possible civilian honour in 2009.
Just like Dhoni, Advani, 2018 TOISA Snooker/Billiards Player of the Year, additionally has a outstanding profession, having gained gold two times in Asian Games in 2006 Doha and 2010 Guangzhou. He may be a multiple world-champion.
ALSO READ: Kidambi Srikanth, Somdev Devvarman receive Padma Shri awards
Besides the duo, ace males's singles shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, former Asian Games gold medallist tennis participant Somdev Devvarman, 2017 World Weightlifting champion within the 48kg class, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, and India's first Paralympic gold medallist, Murlikant Petkar have been conferred the Padma Shri - fourth-highest civilian award - this 12 months.
Three of them, except for Mirabai, had won their awards from the President in a rite on March 21, whilst the weightlifter is in Gold Coast, Australia to take part within the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
Read this story in Marathi
Dhoni walked like an army man to receive Padma Bhushan
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