Virat Kohli wins ICC ODI Player of the Year
Virat Kohli ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year: The ICC is currently giving out awards for 2023. Meanwhile, ICC has made another big announcement. Former Team India captain Virat Kohli has been awarded the ODI Player of the Year award for 2023. Kohli has already won this title three times. This award went to him for the fourth time. Till now, no batsman in the world has won the ODI Player of the Year award four times. That means this is a record in itself.
The year 2023 has been great for Virat Kohli
The year 2023 was a great year for Virat Kohli. He played many explosive innings during the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 in India. Furthermore, Virat Kohli had also broken the record of 49 ODI centuries held by Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the God of cricket. He has now made 50 centuries in ODIs. Kohli scored 765 runs in the World Cup this year, which is the most in a single season of any ODI World Cup. Kohli scored a total of 1377 runs this year. He is now the world batsman to score more than a thousand runs in a year in ODI for the eighth time.
Virat Kohli's ODI record
Talking about Virat Kohli's ODI stats, Kohli has played 292 ODI matches so far and scored a total of 13,848 runs. Here his average is 58.67 and the hit rate is 93.58. Apart from 50 centuries, he has also scored 72 half-centuries in ODIs. He has 1294 fours and 151 sixes to his name in this format. Kohli's highest score in ODI is 183 runs.
ICC had nominated four players
Apart from Virat Kohli, the names of India's Shubman Gill and Mohammed Shami were also included in the ODI Players of the Year list by the ICC. The name of Daryl Mitchell from New Zealand was also included. But Kohli put all that behind him and secured this title. Currently, Kohli is not featured in the Test series against England due to family reasons. Hopefully he can make a comeback in the third game.
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