Indian captain takes place at peak as ICC ODI cricketer of the year

New Delhi:  However great challenges Indian captain plan as to current South Africa series but moment of rejoice with honors to  won the Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the year, and ICC ODI cricketer of the year awards for his achievements in the year 2017.

Kohli was also named captain of both the Test as well as the ODI team of the year. Australian Test captain Steve Smith has been awarded ICC Test Cricketer of the Year as the world governing body announced the annual awards on Thursday (January 18).Virat Kohli led his team from the front as Indian ended 2017 without suffering a single series defeat, across all formats. The only low point of the year for Kohli and his team came in the final of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, where the ‘Men in Blue’ lost to arch rivals Pakistan in the final.

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🏆🇮🇳 Virat Kohli

With India flying high at the top of the rankings, @imVkohli scored 2203 Test runs at 77.80 (eight 💯s), 1818 ODI runs at 82.63 (seven 💯s), and 299 T20I runs at a strike rate of 153.

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— ICC (@ICC) January 18, 2018

ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year
🏆🇮🇳 Virat Kohli@imVkohli scored six tons in the format last year, averaging an astonishing 76.84.

His ODI career average now stands at 55.74, the highest ever by a batsman from a Full Member nation!

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— ICC (@ICC) January 18, 2018

Kohli with  a massive 1460 runs in 26 ODI innings at a superlative average of 76.84; crossing the century mark six times and slamming seven half-centuries. These achievements were enough to land him the ODI player of the year. He was equally good in Test matches, despite a below average series against Australia on home turf. Kohli scored 1059 runs in 16 innings at an average of 75.64, with the help of five centuries and one one-half-century.

As ICC listed out Kohli’s achievements and even tipped him to surpass Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI tons. ICC wrote, “At the age of 29, he has already scored 32 ODI centuries and has his hero Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time record of 49 well and truly in his sights. It is surely just a matter of time before he surpasses the Little Master, particularly if he keeps churning out runs as he did in 2017.”Kohli posted a video message after bagging the awards, and said that he was honored to win the Sir Garfield Sobers award. Also, his winning spree did not stop at just these two awards. He made it to the ICC Test team and ODI team of the year, and was chosen as the skipper for both the teams.The awards were instituted in the year 2004. Kohli has now become the fourth Indian after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010) and Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) to win the prestigious Cricketer of the year award. Being the ODI colossus that he is, this is the second time after 2012 that Virat Kohli has been named the ODI Cricketer of the year.

Since 2009 it is for first time that an Indian has been named the captain of both the ICC Test and ICC ODI playing XIs of the year, with Kohli getting the honor. MS Dhoni was named captain of both the teams in 2009.

ICC Test Team of the Year 2017: Dean Elgar, David Warner, Virat Kohli (c), Steve Smith, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ben Stokes, Quinton de Kock (wk), R Ashwin, Mitchell Starc, Kagiso Rabada, James Anderson.

ICC ODI Team of the Year 2017: David Warner, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Babar Azam, AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ben Stokes, Trent Boult, Hasan Ali, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah as per news 18.