“I am honoured and delighted to have been chosen for the award and also to be in the august company of those who have been honoured before me. I thank the BCCI,” Vengsarkar said.
He will receive a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs. 25 lakh at the BCCI’s eighth annual awards ceremony to be held here on November 21,2014
He was chosen for the award by a panel comprising journalist Shekhar Gupta, BCCI interim president Shivlal Yadav and BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel
Dilip Vengsarkar was India’s prominent batsman from the mid-70s to early 1990s. He earned fame for scoring three consecutive centuries at Lord’s (103 in 1979, 157 in 1982 and 126 not out in 1986). He scored 6,868 runs in 116 Tests (17 centuries) and 3,508 runs in 129 One-Day Internationals.
Previous Col. C.K. Nayudu awardees
1994: Lala Amarnath
1995: Syed Mushtaq Ali
1996: Vijay Hazare
1997: K.N. Prabhu
1998: P.R. Umrigar
1999: Hemu Adhikari
2000: Subhash Gupte
2001: M.A.K. Pataudi
2002: Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
2003: Chandrakant Borde
2004: B.S. Bedi, B.S. Chandrasekhar, E.A.S. Prasanna, S. Venkatraghavan
2007: Nari Contractor
2008: G.R. Viswanath
2009: Mohinder Amarnath
2010: Salim Durrani
2011: Ajit Wadekar
2012: Sunil Gavaskar
2013: Kapil Dev
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