Kohli named ICC Cricketer of the Year

Dubai, January 18

India captain Virat Kohli had something to cheer on Thursday when he was named ICC World Cricketer of the Year, a day after suffering his first Test series defeat as skipper in South Africa. The 29-year-old was rewarded for his prolific run in the qualification period from September 2016 to the end of 2017, in which he amassed 2,203 runs in Tests, 1,818 in ODIs and 299 in T20Is.

Kohli, who also led India to the top of the world’s Test rankings during the period, received the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, which teammate Ravichandran Ashwin had won last year. The top order batsman was also adjudged the ODI Player of the year.

“It means a lot to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for becoming the ICC Cricketer of the Year and also the ICC ODI Player of the Year,” Kohli, who was named captain of both the ICC Test and ODI teams for the year, said in an ICC statement. — PTI

 ICC Awards

• ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year —  Virat Kohli 

• Men's Test Cricketer of the Year —  Steve Smith 

• Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year — Virat Kohli 

• Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year — Hasan Ali (Pakistan)

• Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year - Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)

• Men's T20I Performance of the Year - Yuzvendra Chahal (6/25 vs England) 

• Test team of the year: Dean Elgar, David Warner, Virat Kohli (captain), Steve Smith, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ben Stokes, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Mitchell Starc, Kagiso Rabada, James Anderson

• ODI team of the year: David Warner, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (captain), Babar Azam, AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Ben Stokes, Trent Boult, Hasan Ali, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah