Dubai: India captain Virat Kohli on Monday won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) made the announcement via twitter, bestowing the honour on Kohli, who scored 66 out of his 70 international hundreds, in the "ICC Awards" period.
In the same period, he was also the batsman with most fifties (94), most runs (20396) besides having the maximum average (56.97) among players with 70 plus innings.
Overall, the 32-year-old has amassed 12040 runs in ODIs, 7318 runs in Tests and 2928 runs in T20 Internationals, averaging more than 50 across formats. Kohli is also ICC Men's ODI cricketer of the Decade.
"My only intention was to make winning contributions for the team and I just strive to do that in every game. Stats just become the byproduct of what you want to do on the field."
📽️ Virat Kohli reacts to winning the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade award 🙌#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/MF7LDRhg3v
— ICC (@ICC) December 28, 2020
Australian sensation Ellyse Perry won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade. She was also named the ICC Women’s ODI and T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
Steve Smith is ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade while leg-spinner from Afghanistan Rashid Khan is the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
Former India captain MS Dhoni won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade. He was chosen by fans unanimously for his gesture of calling back England batsman Ian Bell after a bizarre run out in the Nottingham Test in 2011.
With inputs from PTI
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