Virat Kohli has been nominated in five categories in the ICC Awards Including Decade – Player, ODI Player, Test Player, T20I Player and Spirit of Cricket.
Kohli, smashed his maiden ODI ton on December 24, 2009 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens and almost 11 years later he has scored 42 more. Since crossing 1000 runs in a calendar year for the first time in 2011, Kohli has aggregated 10,388 runs in just 202 ODI innings between 2011 and 2020.
Kohli scored 7,240 in 145 Test innings. The captain averages of 53.63 – including 27 centuries and 22 half-centuries.
He played just one T20I innings before 2011, and is already the leading run-getter – 2,794 runs at an average and strike-rate of 50.80 and 138.25 respectively – in the format in international cricket.
The winners will be decided on the basis of the votes the nominees receive from the fans around the world. The ICC opened up the voting for the fans on Wednesday and it will remain open till 16 December.
