Virat Kohli creates history in ICC Awards 2018: The Indian captain has become the first cricketer to win all the three major trophies in a year.
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Much like him converting his starts into big scores on the field, India captain Virat Kohli has made sure that he keeps the conversion rate intact off the field as well. The 30-year old cricketer created history by bagging the three major trophies in the ICC Awards 2018.
The biggest highlight of the same is that Kohli has become the first cricketer ever to win Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year and ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year in the same year.
The fact that he dominated the award function in such a manner speaks highly about the impact Kohli created in the year gone by.
Barring the ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year, Kohli had won both the trophies last year as well. However, it was the then Australia captain Steven Smith who won the award for ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year.
Kohli’s consistency is evident from all that he has achieved in the last couple of years. While doing something on similar lines in one format is considered to be great importance, Kohli doing it across formats proves why he is the best in the business across the globe.
The year 2018 saw Kohli scoring 1,202 ODI runs at a unbelievable average of 133.55. He also became the fastest to reach the milestone of 10,000 runs in the format in 2018.
Talking about cricket’s ancestral format, Kohli was the highest run-scorer in Tests with 1,322 runs at an average of 55.08, with centuries in each of South Africa, England, India and Australia.
Kohli’s achievement created a wave of amazement on social media platform Twitter. Read some of the latest Twitter reactions on the same below:
