India’s captain Virat Kohli on Monday headlined the ICC high honours for the last decade, profitable the Sir Garfield Sobers award for one of the best male cricketer of the previous 10 years. Kohli was additionally picked for the ODI Cricketer of the Decade award.
Former skipper MS Dhoni gained the ‘ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade’, chosen by followers for his gesture of calling again England batsman Ian Bell after a weird run out within the Nottingham Check in 2011. The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) made the bulletins through Twitter, bestowing the highest honours on Kohli, who scored 66 out of his 70 worldwide a whole lot, within the “ICC Awards” interval.
In the identical interval, he was additionally the batsman with most fifties (94), most runs (20396) in addition to having the utmost common (56.97) amongst gamers with 70 plus innings.
General, the 32-year-old has amassed 12,040 runs in ODIs, 7,318 runs in Assessments and a pair of,928 runs in T20 Internationals, averaging greater than 50 throughout codecs. Kohli was additionally a part of the World Cup-winning India squad in 2011, one thing he’ll cherish for all times.
“Firstly, it’s an important honour for me to obtain this award. The moments I maintain closest to my coronary heart within the final decade positively must be the World Cup win in 2011, the Champions Trophy win in 2013 and profitable the collection in Australia in 2018,” mentioned Kohli in an announcement.
For the ODI honour, Kohli was the one participant with 10,000 plus runs within the “ICC Awards” interval together with 39 a whole lot and 48 fifties at a mean of 61.83.
The world governing physique named Australian batting mainstay Steve Smith the Check Cricketer of the Decade and Afghanistan star Rashid Khan because the T20 Cricketer of the Decade.
Australia’’s Elysse Perry swept the ladies’s awards, securing the ICC Feminine Cricketer of the Decade honours alongside ODI and T20 Cricketers of the Decade award.