Indian Cricket team skipper Virat Kohli is the only Indian to have been included in the list of five cricketers of the decade which has been announced by Wisden, an exclusive monthly magazine for cricket.
Four others cricketers in the list are – Steve Smith, Dale Steyn, AB de Villiers and Ellyse Perry.
In its twitter post, the ICC said “Kohli’s 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, he 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.”
“In many ways, there isn’t. Since the retirement of Sachin Tendulkar and the gradual waning of MS Dhoni, no cricketer in the world has operated under such daily pressure as Kohli,” it added.
In every way, this decade has been bossed by Kohli who has scored more runs than any other batsman. ICC posted some astonishing stats about Kohli which showed his dominance in world cricket over this decade. “Virat Kohli this decade: 5,775 more international runs than anyone else, 22 more international hundreds than anyone else,” ICC’s official twitter handle said.
