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SPIRIT OF CRICKET // ICC AWARDS


PEERLESS VIRAT


Virat Kohli won an unprecedented three awards and Smriti Mandhana two in as India dominated the ICC Awards


Virat Kohli became the first player in history to complete a clean sweep of the senior men’s awards in the ICC Awards for 2018.


India’s 30-year-old captain won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, the ICC Test Player of the Year and the ICC Men’s ODI Player of the Year awards following an extraordinary year.


He was the unanimous choice for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy of the ICC’s Voting Academy, comprising 12 journalists and 12 commentators representing all Full Member nations.


Kohli scored 1,322 runs at an average of 55.08 in 13 Tests with five centuries between January 1 and December 31, while in 14 ODIs he amassed 1,202 runs at a remarkable average of 133.55 with six hundreds.


He was also named captain of the ICC Test and ODI teams of the year after finishing the year as the top-ranked batsman in both Tests and ODIs and the highest scorer in both forms. Kohli 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.


Kohli said: “Having recognition at the global level from the ICC is something you feel proud of as a cricketer.


“It’s a reward for all the hard work that you do throughout the calendar year and something that gives you more motivation to keep repeating the same things.”


Kohli’s compatriot Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman to win two awards, named for both the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year.


Mandhana played a crucial role in India’s runs to the semi-finals at the ICC Women’s World T20 in the West Indies, scoring 178 runs in five matches at a strike-rate of 125.35.


She also scored 669 runs at an average of 66.90 in 12 ODIs and 622 runs at a strike-rate of 130.67 in 25 T20Is during the voting period.


Mandhana was delighted to be recognised. “The century I scored against South Africa in Kimberley was quite satisfying and then I had good home series against Australia and England. A lot of people used to say I do not score that much in India, so I had a point to prove to myself,” she said.


Alyssa Healy, the Australian wicket keeper and opening bat, was named Women’s T20I Player of the Year. Healy made 578 runs in 17 matches at an average of 41.28, with all six of her half- centuries contributing to Australian wins.


Healy’s strike-rate of 145.95 was the highest among batters with more than 300 runs for the year. In the World T20 match against Ireland, she smashed fifty off just 21 balls, behind only Sophie Devine’s competition record of 18 balls.


The ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year award went to England’s Sophie Ecclestone. The 19-year-old slow left-armer took 35 wickets in nine ODIs and 14 T20Is.


Scotland batsman Calum MacLeod, whose 140 helped Scotland record a first one-day victory over England, was named ICC Associate Cricketer of the Year.


The annual ICC Spirit of Cricket Award went to New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, while Kumar Dharmasena was voted ICC Umpire of the Year.


ICC Annual Report 2018-2019


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