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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

2018 ICC Awards - Virat Kohli Makes History With Clean Sweep of ICC Awards, Risabh Pant Named Emerging Cricketer

Virat Kohli has become the first player in history to win 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 awards in the same year following an extraordinary 2018.


Virat Kohli was the unanimous choice of the Voting Academy for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy with South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada coming in second behind him for both this as well as the ICC Test Player of the Year award. Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan was runner up for the ICC ODI Player of the Year award.


Virat Kohli finished the year as the top-ranked batsman in Tests and ODIs. The highest scorer in both forms of the game in 2018, he was one of only two batsmen to score more than 1,000 runs in Tests and only among three to do so in ODI cricket.


Virat Kohli had won the Sir Garfield Trophy and ICC ODI Player of the Year awards last year and was also the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012.

The other big Indian winner was wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, who was named the Emerging Player of the Year. The 21-year-old was picked by the ICC's voting academy for a stellar show in his breakthrough Test year in 2018.

Risabh Pant became the first Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to score a Test century in England, and equalled the record for the most catches taken in a Test, with 11 against Australia in Adelaide in December. He then also became the first wicketkeeper from his country to score a Test hundred in Australia.

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