(Tale of Padma Awards for two Indian cricket captains)"It's a huge honour for me to win the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in this country. It gives me huge pleasure to receive this award," Kohli told bcci.tv. "It was I guess the perfect timing you know announcing a National award on Republic Day. I would like to wish everybody a very Happy Republic Day. Apart from them, gymnastic sensation Dipa Karmakar and discus thrower Vikas Gowda also figure in the list of 75 Padma Shri awardees.

Source: India Today January 26, 2017 12:49 UTC