Indian cricketers Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur will be awarded the Padma Shri in recognition of their athletic achievements. With their successful leadership, the two have propelled Indian cricket to new heights. Rohit had recently captained India to two ICC titles – T20 World Cup 2024 and Champions.
Trophy in 2025. He had retired from T20s soon after winning in Barbados and later hung up his boots on Tests in 2025. These days, Rohit is only playing the 50-over format and has set his sights on playing for India in the 2027 World Cup.
Rohit has scored 20,109 across formats in international cricket. Having played 111 fifties and 50 hundreds, it’s been a monumental career for Indian cricket.
About Harmanpreet She is fresh from leading India to their first World Cup title. She was also the second Indian cricketer after former captain supreme MS Dhoni of India to lift a 50-over World Cup on home soil. For years, India had yearned to conquer the Women’s World Cup. But Harmanpreet and her side saw to it that India had a tournament to remember. The 2025 Women’s World Cup would have been Harmanpreet’s fifth major tournament after making her debut in 2009.
She finished with 260 runs in eight innings, a tally that also included an impact-making 89 in the semi-final against Australia. Although India found themselves on the defensive after the first innings, they responded strongly during the chase to hunt down a never-seen-before fourth-innings target of 339 and book their place in the final. Thereafter, the summit clash, held at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai, ended in favour of the Women in Blue, as they outclassed South Africa by 52 runs to create history.
