🔝 Only player with more than 10,000 ODI races in the #ICCAwards period
💯 39 centuries, 48 fifties
🅰️ 61.83 on average
✊ 112 screenshots
A running machine 💥🙌 pic.twitter.com/0l0cDy4TYz
– ICC (@ICC) December 28, 2020
Incredible Virat Kohli wins Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Decade Men’s Cricket Player 🙌
🏏 Most careers in #ICCAwards Period: 20,396
💯 Most hundreds: 66
🙌 Majority of fifty: 94
🅰️ Highest average among players with more than 70 innings: 56.97
🏆 2011 @cricketworldcup champion pic.twitter.com/lw0wTNlzGi
– ICC (@ICC) December 28, 2020
Here’s what Kohli had to say (in a video on bcci.tv) after winning the awards:
“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 World Cup victory in 2011, the Champions Trophy victory in 2013 and the series win in Australia in 2018. I hold them very much in my heart.
“Apart from that, there have also been a lot of special games for the India team in the last decade and for me personally as well. I would not like to mention personal shots so much because then I would have to qualify them and I don’t like to do that because for me all the Matches played in India are important and crucial, so it has been an honor for me to play for the country.
“If you focus only on consistency, I don’t think you can be consistent. If your effort is to step on the field to make your team win at any cost, with that mindset you will act beyond your own limitations and abilities. That has always been the case. my way of thinking, giving my heart and soul for the team. Make sure that as a team we are always moving in the right direction, whether we get the results or not. It is the way of thinking that helps you to be consistent in all formats of the game for a long period of time because you make sure you have some impact on the team.
“I like to base my cricket on the basics of the game. My batting, I have always been very firm with the fact that I want to play good cricket shots and I want to extend the same application to different forms. That helps me to quickly change formats because I’m not trying to do something fancy. I believe enough in my abilities to play good cricket shots and score runs in all three formats of the game. That helps me cut down on errors and then becomes a fit of being aggressive in ODI with balance From spinning strike and being patient, to a little more aggressive in the T20 game, spinning strike becomes even more crucial. And then the tests are about patience and showing endurance and then keep believing in those cricket shots to get you running.
“Cricket goals: nothing is going to change for me since I joined the team, since I had the opportunity to play for India, my mentality has been the same and will remain the same. Now the responsibility is much more than it used to. be, so my endeavor is always to ensure that as a team we go in the right direction, establish the right culture not only for this team, but for generations to come so that the standard of Indian cricket remains high and upheld. at the highest level. And for that you need a proper commitment to play for the team, to work on your fitness and your skills. That is the culture that I hope to instill in younger boys and generations to come so that Indian cricket will become keep on top. “
Meanwhile, Australia Steve Smith won the ICC Cricket Player of the Decade award while Afghanistan Rashid Khan He was named the T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
MS Dhoni received the ICC Spirit of Cricket award for calling Ian Bell in Nottingham in 2011 after a dramatic career.
ICC teams of the decade: MS Dhoni named captain of ODI and T20I teams, Virat Kohli leads the test
On Sunday, the ICC had announced the teams of the decade in Test, ODI and T20I cricket cricket. Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin are the two Indians featured on the test team of the decade, with Kohli named as the test side patron. Meanwhile, the ODI and T20I sides are led by MS Dhoni.
No Pakistani cricketers on ICC teams of the decade; Fans wonder why
ICC T20I Men’s Team of the Decade: Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers, Glenn Maxwell, MS Dhoni (c, wk), Kieron Pollard, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga
ODI Men’s ICC Team of the Decade: Rohit Sharma, David Warner, Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers, Shakib al Hasan, MS Dhoni (c), Ben Stokes, Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult, Imran Tahir, Lasith Malinga
ICC Decade Men’s Test Team: Alastair Cook, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli (c), Steve Smith, Kumar Sangakkara, Ben Stokes, R Ashwin, Dale Steyn, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.
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