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Global honor for MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli: Check the latest milestones of two legendary captains!

By alagu, 28 December, 2020
Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Cricket

Though MS Dhoni had retired from international cricket, cricket won't give retirement to the legendary Indian captain as the former skipper has set a global milestone after he has been conferred with the 'ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade' and the announcement from the International Cricket Council has relished his ardent fans and followers. 

Along with Dhoni, his successor Virat Kohli has shown how he has been shining in the sport after he was bestowed with the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the best male cricketer of the past ten years. Virat Kohli was also picked for the ODI Cricketer of the Decade award. The ICC has on Monday unveiled the honors for the cricket stars and it has shared its announcement on Twitter. 

Kohli has been bestowed with the global cricketing honor at a high time when he has been emerging as one of the remarkable cricketers of all time while MS Dhoni was conferred with the global honor after he was chosen by fans for his gesture of calling back England batsman Ian Bell after a bizarre run out in Nottingham Test in 2011.

Along with Kohli and Dhoni, the ICC has named Australian batsman Steve Smith the Test Cricketer of the Decade and Afghanisthan bowler Rashid Khan has been conferred with the award of T20 Cricketer of the Decade. Besides bagging the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade, MS Dhoni has also been named as Captain - ICC Men's ODI team of the decade and Captain -ICC Men's T20 team of the decade.

Australia's Elysse Perry swept the women's awards, securing the ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade honor and besides that, Perry has been picked as the ODI and T20 Cricketers of the Decade award. Kohli has scored 66 out of his 70 International Hundreds in the ICC Awards period. In the last decade, Kohli was the batsman with more fifties (94), most runs (20,396) besides having the maximum average (56.97) among players with 70 plus innings. 

In total, the Indian Skipper had scored 12,040 runs in ODIs, 7,318 runs in Tests, and 2,928 runs in T20 Internationals, averaging more than 50 across all formats and Kohli was also part of the Indian team that lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 after 28 years. Following the honor, Kohli issued a statement in which he said, "Firstly, it's a great honor 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". 

Responding to the honor of being named as the ODI Cricketer, the Indian skipper said, "ODI Cricket is something that I took to very early. I came to the ODI team first and then, I made my Test debut a couple of years later. I never focussed on stats and numbers along the journey at all and those things just become the by-product of what you do on the field and those for me, just end up being milestones that you cross on the way to the path to victory". 

 

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