Legendary Sachin Tendulkar got a standing ovation as he received the CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in Mumbai during the BCCI Naman Awards. CK Nayudu is BCCI's highest sporting honour and is given to the greatest cricketers to play the sport. Named after India's first Test captain, CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award was first given by BCCI in 1994 to Lala Amarnath. Indian cricket greats including Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Bishan Singh Bedi, Gundappa Vishwanath, Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, and Dilip Vengsarkar, have also won the award. Last year, Ravi Shastri and Farokh Engineer were handed the highest honour by the Indian Cricket Board.
Meanwhile, Sachin Tendulkar thanked the BCCI for giving the prestigious award. "Thank you all for coming. I am thankful to the BCCI, I can't thank them enough. They have always been supportive. Truly humbled to have my name in the list of awardees," Tendulkar said.
Sachin also had a valuable advice for all the current Indian cricketers, saying, "Without cricket all of us wouldn't be sitting in this room. See for me it has been the ultimate gift of my life. We have bat and ball and if there is no solid grip over that you start losing grip over bat and a ball. Kind of slowly start losing grip over your career also."
I should not be giving you advices and stay focused whatever, but there will be distractions. Don't let them disrupt your career. Value everything that we have and look after your game. It is about we all have managed when we did not have anything. It is important to value when we have everything and behave in the appropriate manner to take the game forward and the country's name. You all are current cricketers. There is plenty of cricket left in you just go out give your best and make the most of this opportunity because you'll only realise once you've stopped playing cricket where you were a few years ago," he added.
Tendulkar is one of the greatest to play the sport. During his playing days, Tendulkar broke a plethora of records that will be hard to replicate for the next generation. He played 200 Tests for India and scored 50 hundreds, with 15921 runs to his name. In 463 ODIs, he scored 18426 runs, with 49 hundreds. Tendulkar is still the leading run scorer in Test and ODIs, and only player in the world to score 100 international centuries. In 2013, Tendulkar was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. He is the first and, to date, only sportsperson to receive the prestigious prize. The legendary cricketer retired from the sport in 2013 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai against West Indies.
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