Virat Kohli has been named Wisden’s Leading Cricketer of the Year for the second year in a row.
“For the second year in a row, Indian captain Virat Kohli is Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World. In all formats in 2017, he scored 2,818 runs – more than 700 ahead of Joe Root in second place. Three of his five Test hundreds were doubles, and the other two unbeaten, and his 1,460 one-day international runs were unsurpassed.” Lawrence Booth, editor at Almanack.
2017 has been a brilliant year of the Indian Captain as he was also named ODI Cricketer of the Year along with overall Cricketer of the Year at the ICC awards in January. This was all following a sensational 2017 for him and his team.