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C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award


C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement in Indian cricket
Board of Control for Cricket in India
1994
2025
Lala Amarnath
Rahul Dravid Roger Binny

The Colonel C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award is an award presented by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to individuals who provided unparalleled contribution to Indian cricket. It is the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player and is considered as one of the most prestigious awards in cricket. The award includes a trophy, citation, and cash prize of ₹25 lakh.

The award is named after Colonel C. K. Nayudu (1895–1967), India's first Test cricket captain widely regarded as 'India's first cricket superstar' with a first-class career spanning over 47 years from 1916 to 1963 — a world record.

Nayudu's teammate and India's first test centurion, Lala Amarnath was the first recipient of the award in 1994. K. N. Prabhu is the only sports journalist to have won the award. Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, and B. B. Nimbalkar are the only non-Test cricketers to have been honoured. Lala Amarnath and Mohinder Amarnath are the only father-son duo to have received the honour. Sachin Tendulkar is the most recent recipient of the award.

C. K. Nayudu, after whom the award is named

YearRecipientImageRef
1994Lala Amarnath[[File:Lala Amarnath at Lord's 1936.jpg100px]]
1995Syed Mushtaq Ali[[File:Mushtaq Ali 1936.jpg100px]]
1996Vijay Hazare
1997K. N. Prabhu
1998Polly Umrigar
1999Hemu Adhikari
2000Subhash Gupte
2001Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
2002B. B. Nimbalkar[[File:Cricketer B. B. Nimbalkar, c. 1949.jpg100px]]
2003Chandu Borde
2004Bishan Singh BediSrinivas VenkataraghavanE. A. S. PrasannaB. S. Chandrasekhar
2007Nari Contractor
2008Gundappa Viswanath
2009Mohinder Amarnath[[File:MohinderAmarnath.jpg100px]]
2010Salim Durani
2011Ajit Wadekar
2012Sunil Gavaskar[[File:Sunny Gavaskar Sahara.jpg100px]]
2013Kapil Dev
2014Dilip Vengsarkar
2015Syed Kirmani[[File:Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani.jpg100px]]
2016Rajinder GoelPadmakar Shivalkar
2017Pankaj Roy
2018Anshuman Gaekwad[[File:Anshuman.JPG100px]]
2019Krishnamachari Srikkanth
2023Farokh Engineer
Ravi Shastri[[File:Ravi Shastri (1).jpg100px]]
2024Sachin Tendulkar
2025Rahul Dravid
Roger Binny
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