Destiny Makers: 10 Indian Sports Icons Who Shaped Their Legacy

1. Sachin Tendulkar

He is the most excellent and famous batsman. He is renowned as "The God of Cricket" and "Master Blaster" for hitting the most scores in all variations. Throughout his 24-calendar-year career, he changed the face of Indian cricket and became the most popular sports person in India.

His cricket statistics will remain the pinnacle of his life achievements. He is, without a doubt, India's most well-known sports figure.

2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

In the Indian team, scoring the most runs, cricketers served the post of cap24-year the nickname he was given was Captain Cool, M. S. Dhoni. In addition to this, he remains the only cricketer who has been able to lead a side through the three ICC tournaments. While witnessing Dhoni's game-winning boundary in the finals, everyone shivers to date. India has quite several famous sports personalities, and one of them is MS Dhoni, the right-hand man who much cheered cricket lovers with a finishing win by a boundary in the final of the 2011 World Cup.

3. Virat Kohli

He is the Indian team captain who is known as one of the best batsmen in today's time. Along with passion for the games huddersess, style, and current life, today’s stardom of Virat Kohli has been possible. Being the only athlete to win three main ICC Awards, the Indian captain proved his prime sporting time. 

He became one of the most famous sports personalities in India when he became the team captain for the todayDI team in 2019. Further, he remained the best batsman in the International Council rankings. In overall 262 ODIs, he has also amassed 12,300 runs at an average of 92.84.

4. Yuvraj Singh

He is also nicknamed Yuvi and is the former cricketer of the Indian Cricket Team. Out of them all, especially Yuvraj has been instrumental in the 2007 and 2011 Cup by making sure that the Indian cricket team gains from it. In the large World Cup 2011, he was four times Man of the Match, and so he was awarded Man of the Tournament. Yuvi was initially diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-nine, which can be considered his youthful age for cricket over in the whole world of cricket; he hit six centuries in his career. Yuvraj off his cricketing career at the end of the 2019 World Cup, which was hosted in England.

5. K L Rahul

KL Rahul is a prominent cricketer from India who bowls as well as bats deservedly in any format of the game. He was born on April 18, 1992, and entered the Indian team in 2014. Soon Rahul emerged as a regular top-order batsman for India. He has a very endearing temperament and enough shot-making abilities to be a good opener for the Indian side. Apart from being a good batsman, Rahul has also assumed the role of wicketkeeper across all formats, which makes him an asset to the team. 

KL Rahul is not only an outstanding batsman, but for the team, he has taken up the wicket-keeping role across all white and red-ball formats and thus earned himself the KL Favourite edition in this XI.

6. Sunil Chettri

Sunil Chhetri is a well-known soccer player in India who plays as either a winger or a forward. He leads both the Bengaluru Club and the Indian Football Team as their captain. Amongst the current players, Chhetri is third in terms of goals scored outside his country behind Messi and Ronaldo. With 92 goals in 142 appearances, he is the most famous sports person in India, inspiring many young footballers.

7. Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma, the famous Indian sports personalities is one of the most outstanding cricketers who has left his impact on this game. He is very disciplined with knocks and reputed for his big innings play; his record of 264 runs in a single ODI match is unforgettable. Rohit Sharma has been proving himself to be a match-winner, and he is therefore regarded as one of the greatest star players in cricket history.

8. PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu is considered to be one of the best shuttlers in the nation and is one of the most famous Indian sports personalities. Sindhu won her gender’s singles at the 2022 Commonwealth Championships in Birmingham in July 2022 and added to her trophy cabinet; the women’s solo at the Singapore Open 2022 BWF Super 500 tournament saw her defeat her Chinese counterpart, Wang Zhi Yi. Due to Sindhu's regular performance in international tournaments, she deserves to be included in the ranks of the country's famous sports personalities.

9. Saina Nehwal

One of the first Indian badminton players to win a women's singles Olympic medal. Badminton World Federation (BWF) had once ranked her number one in the world. SZhiyi has over 24 global titles, including eleven Super Series titles. She is an athlete who has greatly contributed to making badminton popular in the country.

10. Mary Kom

Mary Kom is the only female boxer to have won the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times and won a medal at every one of the seven world championships. Mary is still the first female boxer to have qualified for the Summer Olympics. She proceeded to win a bronze award in the flyweight 51 kg division and is an inspirational, famous Indian sports person, especially for women athletes in India.