Virat Kohli Named Skipper For ICC’s ODI, Test Teams Of the Year
Mumbai: International Cricket Council (ICC) announced Virat Kohli as the skipper of ICC’s ODI and Test Teams of the Year.
“5 x Australians, 3 x New Zealanders, 2 x Indians, 1 x Englishman. The XI making up the Test Team of the Year #ICCAwards,” ICC tweeted.ICC Test side for 2019: Mayank Agarwal, Tom Latham, Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli (c), Steven Smith, Ben Stokes, BJ Watling (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Neil Wagner and Nathan Lyon.
https://twitter.com/ICC/status/1217328104105967617
Virat Kohli also bagged the ICC’s Spirit of Cricket award, while Rohit Sharma won the ICC ODI Cricketer of The Year.
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Whereas Indian pacer Deepak Chahar named as 2019 ICC Best Men’s T20 Performance following his spell against Bangladesh.
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Under Kohli, India managed to win Test series against West Indies, South Africa and Bangladesh in 2019 and, as a result, topped the World Test Championship (WTC) standings.
Whereas, in the ODI format, India succeeded in reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup.
ICC’s ODI side for 2019: Rohit Sharma, Shai Hope, Virat Kohli (c), Kane Williamson, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav.
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