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WATCH: Virat Kohli receives Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Dixit Bhargav
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Virat Kohli receives Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Virat Kohli receives Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: Indian captain Virat Kohli becomes the third cricketer to win the prestigious award.

Virat Kohli, captain of India’s cricket team in all formats of the game, has been conferred with the reputable Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. In the National Sports Awards held earlier in the day, Kohli was named the awardee alongside weightlifter Mirabai Chanu.

The awards are given to athletes for their performance in the last year. Kohli has become the third cricketer to be presented with this award. Before him, Sachin Tendulkar (1997) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007) have bagged the award. It is learnt that the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) had been recommending Kohli’s name since 2016 but athletes from other sports had bagged the award in the last two years.

Kohli has scored over 18,000 runs across formats at the highest level. At 29, he has also scored 58 centuries for India. If he continues to play in the way he has played so far, he is all in likeliness to become one of the greatest cricketers ever.

The Khel Ratna Award is the highest sporting honour of the Republic of India. It is awarded annually to usually a couple of athletes. The award is named after former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Watch the video of Kohli receiving the award from the President of the country:

 

After receiving the award, Kohli took to Twitter to express his gratitude on being selected for this honour. Watch his tweet below:

Watching Kohli receive the award, social media platform Twitter was filled with various reactions regarding the same. Read some of the tweets below:

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Dixit Bhargav

Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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