ICC announces Decade Awards: From Kohli, Smith to Perry - Here's complete list of winners
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the individual winners of its 'Decade Awards'. From ICC Player of the Decade to Spirit of the Cricket Award, the world governing body revealed the complete winners' list of the awards while also posting videos of the ICC Decade Awards winners. Here's a look at all the winners of ICC Decade Awards.
ICC Men's Associate Player of the Decade - Kyle Coetzer
Kyle Coetzer was named ICC Men's Associate Player of the Decade. In the ICC Awards period, Coetzer smashed 2277 runs at a brilliant average of 45.54 in ODIs. The Scotland international is the current captain of Scotland and made his debut in 2003.
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ICC Men's ODI Player of the Decade - Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli was named as the ICC Male Player of the Decade. Kohli accumulated most runs in the last decade with a staggering 20, 396 runs under his belt. The Indian skipper also posted more centuries - 66 - in the last decade and also most half-centuries 94. Kohli also had the highest average (70+ innings) - 56.97 and also lifted the ICC World Cup 2011 under the leadership of MS Dhoni.
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ICC Men's T20I Player of the Decade - Rashid Khan
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan got awarded for his meteoric rise, as he bagged 89 wickets in this period and averaged just 12.62. The Afghan maestro scalped three four-wicket hauls and two five-fers in the shortest format of the game.
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ICC Men's Test Player of the Decade - Steve Smith
Steve Smith was named Men's Test Player of the Decade, amassed 7040 runs in the last decade with a breathtaking average of 65.79. He scored 26 centuries and 28 fifties in this period, in what has been a rollercoaster of a ride for the Aussie maestro.
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ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade - Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli, India’s captain in all formats of the game, has been named as International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s ODI Player of the Decade as well as the Sir Garfield Sober's Male Cricketer of the Decade as the governing body announced the result of the ICC Decade Awards on Monday.
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ICC Spirit of Cricket Award - MS Dhoni
Former Indian cricketer MS Dhoni on Friday became the winner of the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade with Dhoni’s move of recalling England batsman Ian Bell in the Nottingham Test in 2011 between India and England winning the coveted award by a unanimous vote.
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ICC Female Awards - Ellyse Perry (clean-sweep)
Whereas Australian women cricketer Ellyse Perry won the Women's T20I and ODI Cricketer of the Year along with winning Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade. Perry, in T20Is, scored 1155 runs at an average of 30.39 and picked up 89 wickets while winning the T20 World Cup in 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2020. In ODIs, Perry scored 2621 runs at an average of 68.97. She picked up 98 wickets and also lifted the ICC World Cup 2013.
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