Indian Cricketers Who Won ICC Awards
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is known as the global governing body of cricket. In 1909, the Imperial Cricket Conference came into existence by representatives from Australia, England and South Africa. Later in 1965, it was renamed as the International Cricket Conference and took up its current name in 1989. The ICC has total of 105 members out of which 12 Full Members play Test Matches and rest 93 are the Associate Members. The Board of Directors is headed by the Chairman. On 26 June 2014, N.Srinivasan was announced as the first chairman of the council. Currently Manu Sawhney is the CEO of ICC. He was also the former CEO of Singapore Sports Hub and Managing Director of ESPN Star Sports (ESS) who succeeded David Richardson. Given below is the list of Indian Cricketers who has won ICC Awards in last 14 years.
Indian Cricketers Who Won ICC Awards
Name Award Year Rahul Dravid Cricketer of the Year 2004 Rahul Dravid Test Player of the Year 2004 Irfan Pathan Emerging Player of the Year 2004 Jhulan Goswami Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007 M.S Dhoni ODI Player of the Year 2008 Virender Sehwag Test Player of the Year 2010 M.S Dhoni Spirit of Cricket 2011 Virat Kohli ODI Player of the Year 2012 Cheteshwar Pujara Emerging Player of the Year 2013 M.S Dhoni LG People's Choice Award 2013 Bhuvaneshwar Kumar LG People's Choice Award 2014
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Ravichandran Ashwin Cricketer of the Year 2016 Ravichandran Ashwin Test Player of the Year 2016 Virat Kohli Cricketer of the Year 2017 Virat Kohli ODI Player of the Year 2017 Yizvendra Chahal Twenty20 International Performance of the Year 2017 Virat Kohli Cricketer of the Year 2018 Virat Kohli Test Player of the Year 2018 Virat Kohli ODI Player of the Year 2018 Smriti Mandhana Women's Cricketer of the Year 2018 Smriti Mandhana Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year 2018
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In ICC 2018, Virat Kohli was the unanimous choice of the elite panel for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. With his overwhelming performance he won three ICC Awards- Test Cricketer of the Year, ODI Cricketer of the Year and Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year Awards and made a clean sweep. It is the 2nd time in succession that he has won the award of ODI Cricketer of the Year and Cricketer of the year. With every single match he has shown an immense improvement in his performance and today grabbing Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy has made him a renowned Indian Cricketer.
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