India batter Cheteshwar Pujara has been offered with the celebrated Arjuna award 5 years after he was really useful for the honour. Pujara couldn’t attend the awards ceremony again in 2017 because of his cricketing commitments. On Saturday, he lastly obtained his fingers on the trophy at a hand over ceremony right here.

“Thankful to @IndiaSports @BCCI and @ianuragthakur to organise and handover the Arjuna Award belatedly, which I could not collect the year it was awarded to me due to my cricket commitments. Honoured and grateful,” he tweeted after getting the award from Sports Minister Anurag Thakur.

Thankful to @IndiaSports, @BCCI and @ianuragthakur to organise and handover the Arjuna Award belatedly, which I couldn’t gather the 12 months it was awarded to me because of my cricket commitments. Honoured and grateful pic.twitter.com/Dokz4ZP3Hs

— Cheteshwar Pujara (@cheteshwar1) November 19, 2022

Pujara, who performs home cricket for Saurashtra, is within the nationwide capital for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

He will likely be part of India A squad that may tour Bangladesh forward of the two-Test sequence within the neighbouring nation subsequent month.

A veteran of 96 Tests, Pujara had made a comeback into the Indian group following exemplary performances in county cricket.

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