Virat Kohli named in Wisden Cricketers of the decade list

Indian
skipper Virat Kohli has been included in the list of five cricketers of the
decade announced by Wisden. Along with Kohli, the other four cricketers are –
Steve Smith, Dale Steyn, AB de Villiers and Ellyse Perry.

“His
genius has been to rise, time and again, to the challenge. Between the end of
the England tour in 2014 and the second Test against Bangladesh at Kolkata in
November, Kohli averaged 63, with 21 hundreds and 13 fifties,” said Wisden
about Kohli.

“It
left him with a unique set of statistics – the only batsman to average at least
50 in all three international formats. Even Steve Smith was moved to remark
recently that there is no one quite like him.” 

On Tuesday,
ICC posted some astonishing stats about Kohli which showed his dominance in
world cricket over this decade.

In 2019,
Kohli scored 2,370 across formats at an average of 64.05. It was the fourth
consecutive time that the 31-year-old aggregated 2000-plus runs in a calendar
year.

The Indian
skipper has already been named as the captain of Wisden’s Test team of the
decade. The Indian run-machine also finds a spot in the Wisden ODI team of the
decade alongside MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and others.