Stellar top-order Indian batsman Virat Kohli has won the ODI Player of the Year award for the year 2023, ICC revealed. The Indian run maestro has scored 1377 runs in 27 matches in the year 2023 in the 50-overs format of the game.
Virat Kohli wins ODI Player of the Year 2023
Kohli worked towards his comeback in 2022 with a spectacular 2023, where he found peak form in ODIs, and capped it off with a Player of the Tournament performance at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup.
India’s No.3 smashed at least a half-century in nine of his 11 innings at the World Cup, finishing with a mind-blowing 765 runs, the most ever scored by an individual batter at World Cup, going past the previous record set by Sachin Tendulkar in 2003. He finished the tournament with an average of 95.62 and a strike rate of 90.31, with three centuries including one in the semi-final against New Zealand.
He finished the year with 1377 runs at an average of 72.47, recording six centuries and eight half-centuries in 24 innings. He had previously won the award in 2012, 2017 and 2018 as well.
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