Virat Kohli Named ICC Men’s Cricket Player of the Decade, MS Dhoni Named “Spirit of Cricket” | Cricket news

DUBAI: Captain of India virat Kohli Monday headed the ICC top honors of the decade, winning the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the best male cricketer of the last 10 years.
Kohli was also chosen for the ODI Cricketer of the Decade award.

Former India captain MS Dhoni won the ‘ICC Spirit of Cricket of the Decade Award’, chosen by fans for his gesture of calling out England batsman Ian Bell after a bizarre run at the Nottingham Test in 2011.

the International Cricket Council (ICC) made the announcements via Twitter, awarding top honors to Kohli, who won 66 of his 70 international hundreds, in the “ICC Awards” period.
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In the same period, he was also the batter with the most fifty (94), most runs (20396) in addition to having the highest average (56.97) among players with more than 70 innings.
Overall, the 32-year-old has racked up 12,040 ODI executions, 7,318 Test executions, and 2,928 T20 Internationals executions, averaging over 50 across all formats. Kohli was also part of the India team that won the World Cup in 2011, something he will cherish for life.
“First of all, it is a great honor for me to receive this award. The moments closest to my heart in the last decade definitely have to be the victory in the World Cup in 2011, the victory in the Trophy of Champions in 2013 and win the series in Australia in 2018, “Kohli said in a statement.

Also named the ODI Cricket Player of the Year, Kohli added: “ODI cricket is something I learned very early. I came to the ODI team first and then made my tryout debut a couple of years later.
“So I understood my game very early, quite early. And as I mentioned before, my only intention and mindset was to make winning contributions to the team and I tried to do all the games that I played.
“I never focused on stats and numbers throughout the journey and those things just become the by-product of what you do on the field and for me, they just end up being milestones that you cross on the road to victory.”

To ODI’s honor, Kohli was the only player with more than 10,000 runs in the “ICC Awards” period, including 39 hundreds and 48 fifties with an average of 61.83.

The world governing body named Australian hitting mainstay Steve Smith as the test cricketer of the decade and Afghanistan star Rashid Khan as the cricketer of the T20 decade.

Australian Elysse Perry swept the women’s awards, earning the ICC Decade Cricket Player of the Decade honors along with the ODI and T20 Decade Cricket Players award.