Cricket is one of the most popular games in the country. There are several winners of Arjuna Award in this sport. Some of the winners are Saleem Durani (1961), Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1964), Vijay Manjrekar (1965), Chandu Borde (1966), Ajit Wadekar (1967), E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishan Singh Bedi, Dilip Sardesai, Eknath Solkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Shanta Rangaswamy, Gundappa Vishwanath, Chetan Chauhan, Syed Kirmani, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath, Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Madan Lal, Manoj Prabhakar, Kiran More, Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Ajay Jadeja, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Nayan Mongia, B.K. Venkatesh Prasad, VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir and more.
