Rohit Sharma has been conferred with the Padma Shri award, India’s fourth-highest civilian award. The former India men’s cricket team all-format captain was presented with the honour by President Droupadi Murmu at the Padma Awards 2026 during the second Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on June 23.
Rohit Sharma conferred with Padma Shri
A total of 65 honours were conferred during the second phase of the investiture proceedings. In the first phase, on May 26, Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur was conferred with the Padma Shri award. Seven other athletes – in tennis, field hockey, athletics, martial arts, and wrestling – were among the recipients.
A highly prestigious honour for a great of the game President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmuji @rashtrapatibhvn confers former #TeamIndia captain Rohit Sharma @ImRo45 with the Padma Shri award pic.twitter.com/6EyffHr1A4
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 23, 2026Rohit is one of five Indian cricketers to play over 500 matches and the fifth-most-capped captain. The opener has the fourth-most runs (20,252) across formats, the third-most in ODI cricket (11,720), and the most in T20I cricket (4,231). However, his biggest accomplishment is winning the T20 World Cup 2024 and the Champions Trophy 2025 as India’s captain.
Padma Awards 2026: Sports winners list
SportspersonSportAwardVijay AmritrajTennisPadma BhushanBaldev SinghField HockeyPadma ShriBhagwandas RaikwarMartial ArtsPadma ShriHarmanpreet KaurCricketPadma ShriK PajanivelMartial ArtsPadma ShriPraveen KumarAthleticsPadma ShriRohit SharmaCricketPadma ShriSavita PuniaField HockeyPadma ShriVladimir Mestvirishvili (Posthumous)WrestlingPadma ShriIndian cricketers (men & women) to win Padma Shri award
1. Vijay Hazare – 1960 2. Jasu Patel – 1960 3. Nari Contractor – 1962 4. Polly Umrigar – 1962 5. Syed Mushtaq Ali – 1963 6. M.J. Gopalan – 1964 7. D.B. Deodhar – 1965 8. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi – 1967 9. Chandu Borde – 1969 10. Bishan Singh Bedi – 1970 11. E.A.S Prasanna – 1970 12. Gundappa Vishwanath – 1971 13. B.S Chandrasekhar – 1972 14. Ajit Wadekar – 1972 15. Farokh Engineer – 1973 16. Pankaj Roy – 1975 17. Syed Kirmani – 1982 18. Kapil Dev – 1982 19. Chuni Goswami – 1984 20. Mohammad Shahid – 1986 21. Dilip Vengsarkar – 1987 22. Mohammad Azharuddin – 1988 23. Sachin Tendulkar – 1999 24. Diana Edulji – 2002 25. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan – 2003 26. Rahul Dravid – 2004 27. Sourav Ganguly – 2004 28. Anil Kumble – 2005 29. MS Dhoni – 2009 30. Harbhajan Singh – 2009 31. Virender Sehwag – 2010 32. VVS Laxman – 2011 33. Jhulan Goswami – 2012 34. Yuvraj Singh – 2014 35. Mithali Raj – 2015 36. Virat Kohli – 2017 37. Gautam Gambhir – 2019 38. Zaheer Khan – 2020 39. Gurcharan Singh – 2023 40. Ravichandran Ashwin – 2025 41. Harmanpreet Kaur – 2026 42. Rohit Sharma – 2026Rohit Sharma conferred with Padma Shri award, joins Kohli & Tendulkar’s elite company Inside Sport India.
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