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King Kohli Reigns Supreme: Virat Kohli sweeps ICC awards- All his accolades in historical win
Here are the honours and accolades Virat Kohli earned at the ICC awards this year.
DNA Web Team | Jan 22, 2019, 04:30 PM IST
1.Virat Kohli: ICC Cricketer of the Year
Virat Kohli, who first came into limelight when he led India to victory at the ICC Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008, finished the year as the top-ranked batsman in Tests and ODIs. The highest scorer in both forms of the game in 2018, he was one of only two batsmen to score more than 1,000 runs in Tests and only among three to do so in ODI cricket. Kohli was the unanimous choice of the voting academy for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy with South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada coming in second to him for both this award and the Test Player of the Year honour.
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2.Virat Kohli: Test Cricketer of the Year
Virat Kohli scored 1,322 runs at an average of 55.08 in 13 Tests with five hundreds during the calendar year.
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3.Virat Kohli: ODI Cricketer of the Year
Virat Kohli scored 1202 runs at an astonishing average of 133.55 with six centuries in the 14 ODIs played in this period. This was also Kohli's second successive ODI Player of the Year award. Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan was runner up to Kohli for the ICC ODI Player of the Year award.
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4.Virat Kohli: Captain of ICC's Test Team of the Year
Virat Kohli was named the captain of ICC's Test Team of the Year for 2018. He became the first Asian and Indian captain to win a Test series in Australia this year. India won six Tests and lost seven during the voting period that ran from January 1 to December 31, 2018.
ICC Men's Test Team of the Year (in batting order): Tom Latham (New Zealand), Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Virat Kohli (India) (capt), Henry Nicholls (New Zealand), Rishabh Pant (India) (wk), Jason Holder (Windies), Kagiso Rabada (South Africa), Nathan Lyon (Australia), Jasprit Bumrah (India), Mohammad Abbas (Pakistan)
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5.Virat Kohli: Captain of ICC's ODI Team of the Year
Virat Kohli led India to nine victories, with four losses and one tied match in ODIs during the voting period that ran from January 1 to December 31, 2018.
ICC Men's ODI team of the year (in batting order): Rohit Sharma (India), Jonny Bairstow (England), Virat Kohli (India) (capt), Joe Root (England), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Jos Buttler (England) (wk), Ben Stokes (England), Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Kuldeep Yadav (India), Jasprit Bumrah (India).
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