Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, ICC Award Winners of the Decade, Ellyse Perry dominates the female awards

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni from India won the International Cricket Council (ICC) ODI Men’s Player of the Decade award and the ICC Spirit of Cricket of the Decade award, respectively, at the ICC awards on Monday. Kohli was also voted the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Award as the ICC Decade Men’s Cricket Player. Australian Steve Smith was chosen as the ICC Men’s Test Player of the Decade award, while Afghan Rashid Khan won the ICC T20I Player of the Decade award. Kohli was nominated for the Player of the Decade award in the Test, ODI and T20I categories.

“MS Dhoni won the ICC Spirit of Cricket of the Decade Award, unanimously chosen by fans for his gesture of calling out former England batter Ian Bell following a dispute disputed at Trent Bridge in 2011,” ICC said in a statement.

Australian Ellyse Perry was voted the winner in three of four women’s categories: ICC Decade Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Women’s ODI Decade Cricketer of the Decade, and ICC T20I Decade Cricket Player.

Kyle Coetzer from Scotland was voted the ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade, while Kathryn Bryce, also from Scotland, was chosen as the ICC Associate Female Cricketer of the Decade.

Kohli has scored 20,396 runs in all formats in the last decade and won the ICC Cricketer of the Year award in 2017 and 2018.

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Perry scored 4,349 runs and collected 213 wickets in all formats over the past decade.

Smith scored 7,040 runs from 69 tests over the past decade at an average of 65.79 over 26 centuries, while Rashid collected 89 T20I wickets at 12.62 and an economy rate of 6.14 runs over 48 matches during the decade.