C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

The Colonel C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award is an award presented by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to individuals who provided unparalleled contribution to Indian cricket.^[1] It is the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player^[2][3] and is considered as one of the most prestigious awards in cricket.^[4][5] The award includes a trophy, citation, and cash prize of ₹25 lakh.^[1]

C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded for	Lifetime Achievement in Indian cricket
Sponsored by	Board of Control for Cricket in India
First award	1994
Highlights
First winner	Lala Amarnath
Last winner	Sachin Tendulkar

The award is named after Colonel C. K. Nayudu (1895–1967), India's first Test cricket captain widely regarded as 'India's first cricket superstar'^[6] with a first-class career spanning over 47 years from 1916 to 1963 — a world record.^[7]

Nayudu's teammate and India's first test centurion, Lala Amarnath was the first recipient of the award in 1994. K. N. Prabhu is the only sports journalist to have won the award.^[8] Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, and B. B. Nimbalkar are the only non-Test cricketers to have been honoured.^[9] Lala Amarnath and Mohinder Amarnath are the only father-son duo to have received the honour. Sachin Tendulkar is the most recent recipient of the award.^[10]

Recipients

C. K. Nayudu, after whom the award is named

Col C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award winners

Year	Recipient	Image	Ref
1994	Lala Amarnath		[11]
1995	Syed Mushtaq Ali		[11]
1996	Vijay Hazare		[11]
1997	K. N. Prabhu		[11]
1998	Polly Umrigar		[12]
1999	Hemu Adhikari		[12]
2000	Subhash Gupte		[8]
2001	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi		[8]
2002	B. B. Nimbalkar		[12]
2003	Chandu Borde		[13]
2004	Bishan Singh Bedi Srinivas Venkataraghavan E. A. S. Prasanna B. S. Chandrasekhar		[13]
2007	Nari Contractor		[13]
2008	Gundappa Viswanath		[2]
2009	Mohinder Amarnath		[12][14]
2010	Salim Durani		[13]
2011	Ajit Wadekar		[3]
2012	Sunil Gavaskar		[15][16]
2013	Kapil Dev		[11]
2014	Dilip Vengsarkar		[5]
2015	Syed Kirmani		[17][18]
2016	Rajinder Goel Padmakar Shivalkar		[19]
2017	Pankaj Roy		[20]
2018	Anshuman Gaekwad		[21]
2019	Krishnamachari Srikkanth		[22]
2023	Farokh Engineer		[23]
	Ravi Shastri
2024	Sachin Tendulkar		[10]