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ICC to host decade awards soon; fans back Kohli to win Player of the Decade

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that it would host the ICC decade awards this year, dates of which would be revealed soon. The ICC’s official Twitter handle gave a teaser of it, by posting s tweet with the caption, “Soon”.

The decade awards would most likely involve all the ICC annual awards categories which would be given to players for their performers throughout the decade i.e.- 2010-2020, also termed as a moving decade in cricket with respect to the number of changes and the tilting of the most dominating team position from Australia to that of India.

Fans reacting to this announcement by the international body claimed that Indian all-format captain and batting maestro Virat Kohli will win the award for Player of the Decade hands down.

Virat,32, started his cricketing career in 2008 but reached the peak only after the 2011 World Cup which Team India won by beating Sri Lanka in the finals under the captaincy of India’s best captain in terms of trophy wins- Mahendra Singh Dhoni.   

Since then Virat has been named Player of the Tournament in two ICC World Cups and has scored the most number of runs, both as captain and as a player. Unfortunately, he has not been able to win an ICC tournament as captain of the Indian team.

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