After making a splash in last year's ODI World Cup, Virat Kohli has been awarded the title of ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year. Virat Kohli has been successful in winning this award for the fourth time. Before 2023, Virat Kohli has become ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2012, 2017 and 2018. Recently, Virat Kohli was also awarded the title of Player of the Tournament in the ODI World Cup. It was the result of Virat Kohli's performance that Team India was successful in reaching the finals by winning 10 consecutive matches.
Last year, Virat Kohli performed brilliantly in ODI cricket and scored 1377 runs in 27 matches. Not only this, Virat Kohli bowled last year after a long gap of seven years and also took one wicket. Virat Kohli was becoming a victim of criticism after not scoring a century for three consecutive years. At one time questions were also raised on Virat Kohli's continued presence in the team. But Virat Kohli made a strong comeback in 2022 and his bat spoke loudly in 2023. Virat Kohli scored 765 runs in 11 innings of the World Cup. Not only this, breaking Sachin Tendulkar's 20-year-old record, Virat Kohli also became the highest run scorer in the ODI World Cup.
There is no one like Virat Kohli in ODI
There is no other batsman like Virat Kohli in ODI cricket. Virat Kohli is the only batsman in the world who has scored 50 centuries in ODI cricket. Earlier, the record for scoring the most centuries was in the name of Sachin Tendulkar who had scored 49 centuries in the ODI format. So far, Virat Kohli has scored 13848 runs in 280 innings of 292 ODI matches at an average of 58.68. Apart from scoring 50 centuries in ODIs, Virat Kohli has also scored 72 half-centuries.
