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Twitter Reactions: Virat Kohli Becomes First Cricketer To Win Top Three ICC Awards In Same Year
By Sandy - Jan 22, 2019 1:38 pm
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The Indian skipper Virat Kohli is facing a dream run in his cricket career and almost in every day, he is creating a history. Now, on Tuesday (22 January), the Indian skipper Kohli becomes the first cricketer to win the all three ICC top awards in the single year. Twitteraties are can’t stop to praise the Indian skipper for his incredible achievements.

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Virat Kohli

For his extraordinary performances in 2018, the 30-year-old Indian skipper Kohli won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year, the ICC Men’s Test Player of the Year and the ICC ODI Player of the Year.

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Moreover, Kohli has been selected as the captain of the ICC Test Team of 2018 and the ICC ODI Team of 2018. In the last calendar year, Kohli was the leading run-scorer in international cricket as he scored 2,735 runs in 47 international innings with the average of 68.37.

Kohli was the leading run-scorer in both the Test and ODI formats of 2018. The no.1 ranked Test batsman Kohli scored 1,322 runs in 24 Test innings (average 55.08) during 2018, while the no.1 ranked ODI batsman Kohli scored 1,202 runs in 14 ODI innings (average 133.55) in the same calendar year.

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After earning these special achievements, Kohli said, “It feels amazing. It’s a reward for all the hard work that you do throughout the calendar year. I feel really grateful and very, very happy with the team doing well at the same time myself performing.

“Having recognition at the global level from the ICC is something you feel proud of as a cricketer because you understand that there are many players playing the game. To be rewarded in this manner from amongst all of them is obviously a very proud moment for me and something that gives you more motivation to keep repeating the same things because you have to keep the standard of cricket up and keep bringing in consistent performances. From that point of view, these awards give you that extra motivation.”

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Here are some Twitter reactions:

https://twitter.com/SemperFiUtd/status/1087599338291953665?s=20

https://twitter.com/iamkingkohli/status/1087609953240535040?s=20

https://twitter.com/AayuJourno/status/1087609685497315328?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheSportCode/status/1087600249332551680?s=20

https://twitter.com/BollywoodGandu/status/1087596669728768001?s=20

https://twitter.com/DH1LLON5/status/1087607976133910528?s=20

https://twitter.com/Holdthedoor19/status/1087593444925685760?s=20

https://twitter.com/BallinBellerin/status/1087600777345024000?s=20

https://twitter.com/vijay_Singh84/status/1087613102093291521?s=20

https://twitter.com/1sInto2s/status/1087601853246857217?s=20

https://twitter.com/AdiViratian_/status/1087599430591627266?s=20

https://twitter.com/SemperFiUtd/status/1087596623230832640?s=20

Tags ICC Cricketer of the YearICC ODI Team 2018ICC Test team 2018ODI player of the yearSir Garfield Sobers TrophyTest player of the yearvirat kohli

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