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.
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.
ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year ✅
ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year ✅
ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year ✅
Captain of ICC Test Team of the Year ✅
Captain of ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year ✅Let's hear from the man himself, @imvKohli! #ICCAwards 🏆 pic.twitter.com/3M2pxyC44n
— ICC (@ICC) January 22, 2019
“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:
Cricketer of the decade!
Virat Kohli for 🇮🇳 in all internationals:
Most runs: 18681 (next best: 14825 H Amla)
Highest ave: 56.60 (next best: 54.32 AB de Villiers)
Most 100s: 63 (next best: 47 H Amla)
Most 50s: 84 (next best: 74 J Root)
Most 50+ scores: 147 (next best: 112 H Amla)— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) January 22, 2019
2017 ICC Awards:
Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli 🇮🇳
Test Player of the Year: Steve Smith 🇦🇺
ODI Player of the Year: Virat Kohli 🇮🇳
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2018 ICC Awards:
Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli 🇮🇳
Test Player of the Year: Virat Kohli 🇮🇳
ODI Player of the Year: Virat Kohli 🇮🇳— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) January 22, 2019
ICC Cricketer of the Year
ICC Test player of the Year
ICC ODI player of the YearCaptain of ICC’s Test XI of the Year
Captain of ICC’s ODI XI of the YearThe KING KOHLI it is.
No other player has dominated a year like Kohli did. A feat achieved by none other.#ICCAwards2018
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/SemperFiUtd/status/1087599338291953665?s=20
https://twitter.com/iamkingkohli/status/1087609953240535040?s=20
Virat kohli right now #ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/aN7uQ258G4
— Anshul Tyagi (@Noreservation9) January 22, 2019
Make way for The King 👑
ICC Cricketer of the Year 🏆
ICC Test Player of the Year 🏆
ICC ODI Player of the Year 🏆#TeamIndia #ICCAwards Virat Kohli ICC ODI King Kohli icc men Cricketer of d year As I said earlier he deserve every single award 🏆 @ViratGang @TeamVirat pic.twitter.com/xn2KIaVtMM— Mahi🍂 (@Kohlifie) January 22, 2019
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
ICC Awards to Virat Kohli.#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/LdIscW8U20
— Pranjul Sharma (@pranjultweet) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/Holdthedoor19/status/1087593444925685760?s=20
😎 king Kohli HAT-TRICK ICC Awards👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/skXGzvcPWl
— Pradeep Kushwah (@Pradeep45755600) January 22, 2019
Kohli after he bagged all 3 major #iccawards pic.twitter.com/WK9gTd8Z4J
— Nav (@ImNsamy) January 22, 2019
Kohli to Naseeruddin Shah after #ICCAwards #ICCAwards2018 @imVkohli 🙊 pic.twitter.com/dd3T6xV0aH
— Muntazir (@isdilkakyakarun) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/BallinBellerin/status/1087600777345024000?s=20
Kohli haters rn after the clean sweep at #ICCAwards ! pic.twitter.com/AArvLE6lbC
— Mr. A 🇮🇳🏏 (@cricdrugs) January 22, 2019
Virat Kohli becomes the first player to bag all three major ICC awards in a year:
ICC Cricketer of the year
ICC Test Cricketer of the year
ICC ODI Cricketer of the year
Also he is named the captain of ICC TEST and ODI team of the year
G.O.A.T 🙌🙌— Aryan Bhalla (@AryanBhalla57) January 22, 2019
*ICC announces any fucking award*
Virat kohli be like-#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/rcJ54tdE1D— Mr. Bauva (@BadmashBauva) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/vijay_Singh84/status/1087613102093291521?s=20
@MitchJohnson398 your feeling after seeing kohli dominating #ICCAwards 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/OiNXjDVF8g
— Witlaker (@Witlaker1) January 22, 2019
Kohli be like: #ICCAwards
🏆 Men's Cricketer of the year
🏆 Men's Test Cricketer of the year
🏆 Men's ODI Cricket of the year pic.twitter.com/j4GQniqwOT— Orhan Awatramani #Orry (@Orry_X1) January 22, 2019
RT IF You Know Where These Trucks Are Headed ??
🤭 Virat Kohli 🤭#ICCAwards 🏆🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/RytBWFVMcn
— Dr Khushboo 🇮🇳 (@khushbookadri) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/1sInto2s/status/1087601853246857217?s=20
https://twitter.com/AdiViratian_/status/1087599430591627266?s=20
Virat Kohli carrying all his awards of 2018. #ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/ObmIJ0RFfl
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/SemperFiUtd/status/1087596623230832640?s=20
