ICC ODI Player of the Year Virat Kohli: Star Indian batsman Virat Kohli won the ICC ODI Player of the Year award for the fourth time after his sensational performance in the World Cup 2023. Indian batting star Virat Kohli won the ICC ODI Player of the Year award for the fourth time after his record-breaking performance in the World Cup 2023. Kohli had previously won the award in 2012, 2017 and 2018 and was also one of the total 04 cricketers nominated for the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2023 award.
According to the information received, Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer to win this award four times, leaving behind AB de Villiers' number of three awards. Virat Kohli followed up his stellar 2022 with a stellar comeback in 2023, where he hit peak form in ODIs and capped it off with a Player of the Tournament performance at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023.
India's No. 3 scored at least a half-century in nine of his 11 innings in the World Cup, and finished with an astonishing 765 runs, the highest ever score by an individual batsman in the Men's Cricket World Cup , which is further than last time. Record made by Sachin Tendulkar in 2003. Kohli finished the tournament with an average of 95.62 and a strike rate of 90.31 with three centuries, including a century in the semi-final against New Zealand.
His stellar performance in the World Cup helped India reach the final. Showing a remarkable turnaround in his form in 2023, Kohli scored 2,048 runs in 36 international innings. He emerged as the leading run-scorer in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 and despite India's disappointing defeat in the final, he was named Player of the Tournament.
It is noteworthy that the 35-year-old star scored eight centuries across all formats in 2023 and left leading run-scorer Shubman Gill by a century. Kohli and Gill were the only cricketers to break the 2,000-run mark in international cricket, with Gill dominating in ODIs with 1584 runs. Notably, he surpassed Sachin Tendulkar's historical record of most ODI centuries during the World Cup, and achieved the feat of becoming the first cricketer to score 50 centuries in 50-over cricket.
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