bangalore bulky dossiers on personal feats seem to be passe for board of control for cricket in india at least this was what the rajiv gandhi khel ratna and arjuna awards committee found much to its consternation on saturday while the achievement columns of most of the other khel ratna and arjuna awardees listing their exploits are comprehensive bcci apparently chose to be too concise for the committees comfort sources told toi for example rahul dravids record was described as 12 matches against england with five centuries three of them unbeaten in yuvrajs case the 2009 and 2011 columns were blank his scores of 2010 were listed along with a line that he was the player of the world cup surely his scores and performance at the world cup could have been spelt out in detail the sources said what we got to read shocked us it only reflects bccis callousness we are sure they could have compiled the players records in a more professional manner the sources said a majority of the committee members regretted the way they had been taken for granted and were against picking yuvraj for the arjuna award the sources said but eventually his brilliant run in last years world cup won the day for him however rahul dravid wasnt as lucky as the committee decided to go with two telling performances at the olympics vijay kumar silver shooting and yogeshwar dutt bronze wrestling we had instructions to choose one for the khel ratna but we shortlisted two had we gone in for the third it would have been ronjan sodhi whose superb run last year including a world cup finals gold in double trap in uae was recorded far more meticulously going by what was in dravids file it just did not match up to the feats of the olympic medallists the sources said interestingly bcci had plenty of time to compile the cricketers achievements after the sports ministry extended the last date for submitting nominations from april 30 to july 20 the previous deadline had passed amid acrimony and bloodletting with the bcci contending that it hadnt received the awards proforma from the ministry and the ministry in turn insisting that its official had spoken to the bcci office in mumbai to remind them of the last date to send in their nominationsdhyan chand award for dravid the khel ratna committee which overlooked rahul dravid for the countrys highest sporting honour has recommended that the former india captain ought to be given the central governments lifetime award the committee unanimously decided that dravids achievements were too good to be ignored but since two olympians were chosen for the khel ratna we decided that he should be recommended for the dhyan chand award we also conveyed this to the minister when we met him sources said unlike the khel ratna which has a purse of rs 75 lakh dhyan chand award carries a cash award of rs 5 lakh a plaque and a