Indian skipper Virat Kohli convincingly dominated the ICC awards of the decade. The 32-year-old batsman featured in the playing XI of all the ICC formats: ODI, Tests, and the T20Is. And on Monday, he was named ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade and was also honored with the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade. Virat Kohli’s blistering stats in the previous decade were enough to leave his doubters numb.
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Virat Kohli dominates the ICC’s award of the decades
Virat Kohli has mustered a total of 12,040 runs in 251 One Day International games, since his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in 2008. He has scored 7,318 and 2,928 runs in 87 Tests and 85 T20 Internationals respectively. Virat Kohli won the Player of the Tournament in the 2014 and 2016 ICC T20 World Cup. After winning the auspicious awards, Virat Kohli indulged in a candid interview with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Virat Kohli, in the following interaction, revisited the golden moments of his career in the past decade.
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“Firstly, it’s a great honour for me to receive this award. The moments I hold closest to my heart in the last decade definitely has to be the World Cup win in 2011, the Champions Trophy win in 2013, and winning the series in Australia in 2018. Apart from that also there have been some very special games for Team India as well in the last decade and for me personally as well.
“I would not want to mention my personal knocks so much because then I will need to rate them, and I don’t like doing that. For me, every game played for India is as important and as crucial. It has just been an honour for me to go out there and perform for my team and for my country and it is a great honour for me to win this award.” said Virat Kohli as quoted by bcci.tv.in.
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🎖️ Test series win in Australia in 2018Virat Kohli, the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade, talks about the last 10 glorious years of his career 🙌#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/P9FSDgCkWJ
— ICC (@ICC) December 28, 2020
