Legendary India batter Sachin Tendulkar is likely to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, also known as the CK Nayudu Award at BCCI’s annual gala in Mumbai on Saturday.

The CK Nayudu award was instituted in 1994 in the honour of India’s first captain Col. C K Nayudu, who also served the game as an administrator. Nayudu had a 47-year-long first-class career between 1916 and 1963, which is a world record.

In addition to the virtually insurmountable 200 Tests, Tendulkar played 463 ODIs and one T20I, totaling 664 international matches. In these matches, he has scored over 34 thousand runs (34,357), including 100 international centuries.

Tendulkar, a World Cup winner in 2011, has also been awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honor. Few Indian cricketers are more deserving of the award than the 51-year-old master, who represented his country for 24 years, 1989-2013.

"Yes, he will be the recipient of the C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2024," a Board source told PTI.

Tendulkar is likely to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement award at the Naman BCCI Awards ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday. Sachin Tendulkar will be the 31st recipient of the award.

Other CK Nayudu Award winners have been Lala Amarnath, Syed Mushtaq Ali, Vijay Hazare, KN Prabhu, Hemu Adhikari, Subhash Gupte, MAK Pataudi, BB Nimbalkar, Chandu Borde, Bishan Singh Bedi, S Venkataraghavan, EAS Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar, Mohinder Amarnath, Salim Durani, Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar, Syed Kirmani, Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, K Srikkanth and Farookh Engineer.

Farokh Engineer and Ravi Shastri were the last recipients of the award in 2023.

(PTI inputs)