Virat Kohli and R Ashwin nominated for ICC Player of the Decade award

Kohli has also been named in ODI player of Decade, Test Player of the decade and Spirit of Cricket lists.

Rohit Sharma has been nominated in ODI and T20I player of the decade | GettyIndian captain Virat Kohli and ace-spinner R Ashwin have been nominated for the ICC Player of the Decade Award.

Apart from Kohli and Ashwin from India, Joe Root (England), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Steve Smith (Australia), AB de Villiers (South Africa), and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) have also been nominated for this accolade.

Kohli has also made it into the shortlist for the ODI Player of the Decade award, along with Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Mitchell Starc (Australia), AB de Villiers, Rohit Sharma (India), MS Dhoni (India), and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka).

The full list of nominations was announced on Tuesday on the official website of ICC and the winners will be decided on the basis of the number of votes a player receives.

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For ICC Women's Player of the Decade, Ellyse Perry (Australia), Meg Lanning (Australia), Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), Mithali Raj (India), Sarah Taylor (England) have been nominated.

The Test Player of the Decade award nominations sees the likes of Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Kane Williamson, Steve Smith, James Anderson, Rangana Herath, and Yasir Shah.

Mithali Raj has been nominated for Women Player of the decade awardRashid Khan (Afghanistan), Kohli, Imran Tahir (South Africa), Aaron Finch (Australia), Lasith Malinga, Chris Gayle (West Indies), and Rohit Sharma (India) have been nominated for the Men's T20I Player of the Decade.

For Women's T20I Player of the Decade, Lanning, Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Deandra Dottin, Alyssa Healy, and Anya Shrubsole have been nominated.

Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry, Mithali Raj, Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), and Jhulan Goswami (India) have been shortlisted for the ICC Women's ODI Player of the Decade.

For ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade, Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, Brendon McCullum (New Zealand), Misbah-Ul-Haq (Pakistan), MS Dhoni, Anya Shrubsole (England), Katherine Brunt (England), Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), and Daniel Vettori (New Zealand) have been shortlisted.

(ANI inputs)

 
 

By Jatin Sharma - 24 Nov, 2020

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