Dubai: India captain Virat Kohli has been awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the best cricketer of the last decade. The awards were announced on Monday. Kohli was named the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Decade.
Over the past decade, Kohli has scored 20,396 runs at an average of 56.97 in all formats of cricket, including 66 centuries and 94 fifties. Kohli has scored over 10,000 runs, 39 centuries and 48 fifties in ODIs at an average of 61.83.
In 2019, Kohli became the first player in international cricket to reach 20,000 runs in a decade in all formats. Kohli achieved this feat in the ODI World Cup match against the Windies. Kohli holds the record set by former Australia captain Ricky Ponting. Ponting is second on the list with 18,962 runs. Kohli also became the first cricketer in history to win all the ICC individual awards in the same year. Kohli won the 2018 ICC Player of the Year and ODI Test Player of the Year awards.
Kohli is the only player to be included in the ICC World XI, which has been selected by the ICC as one of the best cricketers of the last decade. ICC AIC is also the captain of the Test team. Kohli was selected. Australian batsman Steve Smith is the best Test cricketer of the decade. In the last decade, Smith has scored 7040 runs at an average of 65.79 in Tests. Smith scored 26 centuries and 28 fifties during this period.
Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan named World Twenty20 Player of the Decade Rashid Khan has taken the most wickets in Twenty20 in a decade.
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