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ICC Awards of the Decade 2010-20: Sangakkara in Test team of the Decade

29 Dec 2020

Kohli wins two plum awards, Ellyse Perry dominates women's award

  The winners of the prestigious International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards for the Decade, including the Rachel Heyhoe-Flint Award for the Best Female Player of the Decade and Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the Best Male Player, were announced yesterday (28) by the ICC. Virat Kohli, who scored 20,396 runs in all international cricket during the time period, which is more than anyone else, won two main awards. He was also part of team India that won the ICC World Cup 2011 and ICC Champions Trophy 2013. Kohli was also named ICC Cricketer of the Year in both 2017 and 2018, so it was no surprise that he emerged as the clear jury favourite, winning the “ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade”.   Perry wins three awards for women   [caption id="attachment_111135" align="alignright" width="382"] Ellyse Perry bagged three awards for women [/caption]
 Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry was a clear favourite in the Female Cricketer of the Decade category. She won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award with her scores of 4,349 runs with four centuries and 213 wickets in all international cricket during the decade – which was also the most wickets taken by any player. Perry was also part of the Aus team that won the ICC Women’s World Cup in 2013 and ICC Women’s T20 World Cups in 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2020. She has also won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for leading Women’s Cricketer in years 2017 and 2019. She also went on to win the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade as well as the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.   The award winners:   
  1. Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade – Virat Kohli (India) [caption id="attachment_111134" align="alignright" width="378"] Indian legend Virat Kohli won men’s plum award[/caption]
  Nominees: Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Virat Kohli (India), Joe Root (England), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Steve Smith (Australia), A.B. de Villiers (South Africa), and Kane Williamson (New Zealand)  
  1. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade – Ellyse Perry (Australia)
  Nominees: Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Meg Lanning (Australia), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Mithali Raj (India), Sarah Taylor (England), and Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)  
  1. ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade – Steve Smith (Australia)
  Nominees: James Anderson (England), Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka), Virat Kohli (India), Joe Root (England), Yasir Shah (Pakistan), Steve Smith (Australia), and Kane Williamson (New Zealand)  
  1. ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade – Virat Kohli (India)
  Nominees: M.S. Dhoni (India), Virat Kohli (India), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Rohit Sharma (India), Mitchell Starc (Australia), and A.B. de Villiers (South Africa)  
  1. ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade – Ellyse Perry (Australia)
  Nominees: Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Meg Lanning (Australia), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Jhulan Goswami (India), Mithali Raj (India), and Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)  
  1. ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade – Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)
  Nominees: Aaron Finch (Australia), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Virat Kohli (India), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Rohit Sharma (India), and Imran Tahir (South Africa)  
  1. ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade – Ellyse Perry (Australia)
  Nominees: Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Meg Lanning (Australia), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Anya Shrubsole (England), Alyssa Healy (Australia), and Deandra Dottin (West Indies)  
  1. ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade – Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India)
  The ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade was won by M.S. Dhoni following a fan vote, for his decision to recall Ian Bell after a controversial run out in the 2011 Nottingham Test between England and India. The incident had also won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award in 2011.  
  1. ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade – Kyle Coetzer (Scotland)
 
  1. ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade – Kathryn Bryce (Scotland)
  [caption id="attachment_111136" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Kumar Sangakkara is the wicket-keeper of the ICC Test Team of the Decade[/caption]   Sangakkara in ICC Test Team of the Decade  
India Skipper Virat Kohli has been named the Captain of the ICC’s Test Team of the Decade, having also been named the Captain of the Test Team of the Year in each of the past three years. He also became the only men’s player to be named in ICC’s Test, ODI, and T20I Teams of the Decade. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara has been given wicket-keeping duties of the ICC Test Team of the Decade.   ICC Men’s Test Team of the Decade: Alastair Cook, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli (Capt.), Steve Smith, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Ben Stokes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dale Steyn, Stuart Broad, and James Anderson  


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