Virat Kohli won two ICC top honors of the decade on Monday.© AFP
Virat Kohli, captain of India in all formats, won two prestigious ICC awards on Monday. The ICC named Kohli as the ODI Decade Male Cricketer and the patron of India also took home the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Decade Male Cricketer. The official Instagram of the Indian Cricket Team posted an image to congratulate Kohli on his achievement. “Sir Garfield Sobers Award to ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade. ICC Men’s ODI Decade Cricketer of the Decade. He runs trophies and phenomenal numbers in all formats for the past decade. Champion in the truest sense. Congratulations to Virat Kohli “, read the caption of the image.
India’s vice captain in white ball cricket Rohit Sharma was one of the first in the cricket fraternity to salute Virat Kohli for winning big at the ICC awards.
“Great achievement,” Rohit left a comment on the post along with a clapping emoji.
England cricketer Danielle Wyatt also reacted to the post, using multiple emojis.
Kohli, in the last decade, scored 20,396 runs with the help of 66 hundreds in all formats of the game.
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The Indian pattern also scored the most half centuries in the last 10 years – 94 across all three formats.
Kohli was also part of the 2011 World Cup winning team, as India lifted the coveted trophy after 28 years.
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