{"id":498134,"date":"2024-01-09T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=498134"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:53:29","slug":"mohammed-shami-arjuna-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/mohammed-shami-arjuna-award\/","title":{"rendered":"National Sports Awards: Mohammed Shami receives Arjuna Award from President Droupadi Murmu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Droupadi Murmu honoured Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami with the esteemed Arjuna Award on Tuesday in recognition of his outstanding service to the game. Shami received the accolade at Rashtrapati Bhavan after a brilliant 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pacer&#8217;s name was suggested for the esteemed award by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. When Shami received his award nomination, he was overjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving the award Shami said, winning this award is a dream come true. He also said, life passes and people are not able to win this award. It\u2019s a matter of great joy and he feels proud on winning it. Many people spend their entire lives as just spectators, watching others gain these honours. Many people still have unfulfilled dreams, as Shami said on Monday in response to his nomination for the nation&#8217;s second-biggest sporting award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Delhi: Mohammed Shami received the Arjuna Award from President Droupadi Murmu at the National Sports Awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/znIqdjf0qS\">pic.twitter.com\/znIqdjf0qS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1744598524480897396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shami also thanked his coach, BCCI, teammates, his family, staff and also to his fans. He said, he will always try to give his best to make the country proud. Mohammed Shami also congratulated to other Arjuna award winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably,&nbsp;President Murmu also gave honours to a number of other celebrities. Along with a number of other Indian athletes who excelled at the Asian Games, she gave young phenomenon Sheetal Devi the Arjuna Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heroes of the Asian Games from India, including Aditi Gopichand Swami, Sreeshankar Murali, Parul Chaudhary, Esha Singh, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, are included in the list who were awarded with the Arjuna Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, during the 2023 ODI World Cup, Mohammed Shami was one of the Indian team&#8217;s shining talents. Opponents found him to be a nightmare to cope with as he wrecked havoc. Despite missing the tournament&#8217;s first four games, the pace merchant amassed 24 wickets in just seven outings. He proceeded to shatter multiple records and established himself as India&#8217;s greatest wicket-taker in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pacer&#8217;s name was suggested for the esteemed award by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":498137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6,110599],"tags":[109964,3367,161580,150074],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/09162240\/ezgif-2-02b0a4d7e3-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498134"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=498134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=498134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->