(Eds: updating with details and collating relatedstories)Dubai, Jan 18 (PTI) Indian skipper and batting mainstayVirat Kohli today dominated the ICC annual awards clinchingboth the cricketer and captain of the year honours -- a much-expected windfall of accolades for his phenomenal run acrossformats.
Kohli, who is currently leading India in an away Testseries against South Africa, was named recipient of the SirGarfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year and also theODI Cricketer of the Year. Besides he was picked the captainof both the ICC's Test and ODI teams of the year.
Ironically, this comes at a time when his leadership hasbeen called into question in the ongoing three-match seriesagainst South Africa, which India are trailing 0-2 after heavylosses.
However, in the qualification period from September 21,2016 to the end of 2017, Kohli scored 2,203 Test runs at anaverage of 77.80 including eight centuries, 1,818 ODI runsincluding seven centuries at 82.63, and 299 T20I runs at astrike rate of 153.
He also captained India to the top of the ICC Testrankings.
"It means a lot to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy forbecoming the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2017 and also the ICCODI Player of the Year," Kohli was quoted as saying in an ICCstatement.
"I won that back in 2012 also but it's the first timewinning the Garfield Sobers Trophy, and it's a huge honour forme. It's probably the biggest of all in world cricket and twoIndians getting it back-to-back makes it more special," headded.
This is the second time in succession that an Indian haswon the overall cricketer of the year award. Off-spinner RAshwin had claimed the honour last year.
Apart from Kohli, there were four other Indians who werepicked in the ICC's Test and ODI Teams of the Year. While theTest team featured Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin,Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma found a place in the ODI side.
Kohli surprisingly pipped Australian skipper Steve Smithfor the ICC's Test team captaincy. Smith had led his team to adominating 4-0 win over England in the Ashes.
Smith, however, claimed the Test Player of the Year awardafter scoring 1875 runs in 16 matches at an average of 78.12,with eight hundreds and five 50s.
Kohli became the first non-South African since 2013 towin the ODI Cricketer of the Year award since 2013. Quinton deKock received the accolade for 2016 and AB de Villiers won itin 2014 and 2015.
In the nominations for ODIs this year, Kohli was placedalongside Pakistan paceman Hasan Ali, Afghanistan leg-spinnerRashid Khan and his own teammate Rohit Sharma.
Smith, meanwhile, beat off competition from last year'swinner Ashwin, who took 111 wickets at 25.87, CheteshwarPujara, who scored 1,914 runs, Kohli, and Ben Stokes, who hit1,000 runs at 40.00 and took 35 wickets at 27.68.
Among other awards, Yuzvendra Chahal's incredible haul of6/25 against England in Bengaluru last year, was named asTwenty20 International performance of the year.
Chahal was named Player of the Match and Player of theSeries for his performance -- the best by an Indian bowler inT20I history, and the third-best of all time.
He is behind only Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis, who took6/8 and 6/16 against Zimbabwe and Australia respectively.
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan was adjudged ICC AssociateCricketer of the Year after taking 60 wickets in 2017 -- arecord for an associate player in a calendar year.
The ICC's Test team of the year includes threeAustralians -- Smith, opener David Warner and fast bowlerMitchell Starc, three South Africans -- opener Dean Elgar,wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock and pacer Kagiso Rabada.
English pacer James Anderson and all-rounder Ben Stokesalso found a place in the Test team.
Of these, Warner, de Kock and Stokes made the ODI squadas well. The others in the 50-over team included South Africanformer skipper AB de Villiers, Afghanistan's teenage leg-spinner Rashid Khan and two Pakistani cricketers in Hasan Aliand Babar Azam.
The ICC selection would come as a morale-booster forStokes, who had been embroiled in a disciplinary mess afterbeing caught up in a brawl outside a bar last year.
The incident had cost him a place in England's Ashessquad and he has also been charged with affray recently by theCrown Prosecution Service. PTI PM ATPM.
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