The Dronacharya award, which was first given out in 1985, honours excellent trainers in sports and games. Dronacharya, also known as Guru Drona, is a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. In 1986, Desh Prem Azad became the first person to get the Dronacharya Award for cricket. Between 1953 and 1973, he appeared in nineteen first-class cricket matches for Haryana, the Maharaja of Patiala's XI, and Southern Punjab, scoring 658 runs and taking eight wickets. In 2005, he was also the match referee for two Under-19 matches against India and Australia.
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