Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja among four nominees for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2023 | 2 Indians in the race for Cricketer of the Year: Captain Cummins, who won 2 ICC trophies, also included; Kohli can win for the third time
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Star Indian cricketer, Virat Kohli and the restless superstar along with two other players have been nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year 2023. Along with him, this record has been given prominence along with Australia’s two ICC Trophy title winners Pat Cummins and World Cup Knock Out Player of the Match Travis Heads.
Virat Kohli has won these films in 2016 and 2017. Other players have not won this note yet.
Kohli will be the Indian with most centuries in 2023
After returning to great form in 2022, Virat Kohli has shown his impressive run in the Test and Fortnight. In Test cricket, he scored a crucial 44 against Australia in the second Test of the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Series, helping India post a solid score in the first innings of the game and win. In the last game of the same series, Kohli also scored a brilliant 186 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
Virat also scored the maximum number of 8 centuries for India in the year 2023. At the same time, its excellent performance in the World Cup helped India reach the finals. This batsman has scored 765 runs, the most runs scored by any player in any single instance of the World Cup.
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Best year in test for fantastic year
It was a great year for Test cricket. Here he made significant contribution in the format. These included a strong innings of 70 by Australia batsmen in the first encounter in Nagpur which helped India gain a big lead, an aggressive innings of 48 by the batsmen in the DWTC final at the Oval and some aggressive innings by West Indies in the first encounter in Nagpur. With the ball, he took four wickets in the WTC final, being particularly impressive in the second innings.
With 31 wickets, he took 16 wickets at an average of 24.87 in the World Cup, with a career-best performance of 5/33 against South Africa at Eden Gardens.
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Travis Head shines in the World Cup
Travis Heads performed brilliantly in his comeback and knockout during this World Cup. He was selected and selected Player of the Match for his performance in the final. Of his 570 runs, 329 were scored in the World Cup. His strike rate during the tournament was 127.51, which was slightly less than his runs for the year (133.17).
His career also included a brilliant Test century, which helped Australia lift the World Championship 2023 trophy. Hades was the top scorer in India’s WTC final match with 163 runs in the first innings. His innings helped Australia post a great score and win by 209 runs.
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Cummins Pattins won 2 ICC trophies for Australia
The year 2023 will be great for Cummins. After Aaron’s death in the early stages of the Captain Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Australia’s Cummins picked himself up and made significant achievements.
It started with India in the WTC final at The Oval, followed by retaining the Ashes in England and the team making a spectacular comeback in the World Cup. In the World Cup, the team made a record of nine consecutive matches after losing the first two matches, winning the World Cup for the sixth time.
Youth player Cummins performed all-round in the test. He played a vital role in Australia’s pace attack and was aggressive with the pitch as well. This has been shown in the preliminary Ashes test in Birmingham. Despite taking no wickets in the first innings, he restricted England’s total of 38 wickets to just 10 wickets.
After this, Cummins took four wickets to ensure that Australia’s score would remain less than 300. And when Australia was in trouble in the first Test, Cummins played a fighting inning of 44 runs to put Australia in a thrashing.
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Four nominees included in Test Player of the Year
Three batsmen and one batsman have been nominated for the ICC Test Player of the Year. There are two Australians, one Indian and one English player in it. The name is R Ashwin from India. Whereas, Travis Heads and Usman Khawaja were nominated from Australia. Whereas, the name of Joe Root from England is included.
![R Ashwin took 41 Test wickets in 7 matches in the year 2023.](https://images.bhaskarassets.com/web2images/521/2024/01/05/r-ashvin_1704461051.jpg)
R Ashwin took 41 Test wickets in 7 matches in the year 2023.
Three Indian players of this year
Nominations for three players were announced for the Favorite Player of the Year award for 2023, which includes three Indians. Shubman Gill, Mohammed Shami and Daryl Mitchell were also nominated for films after Virat Kohli’s performance during the World Cup in India.
India’s Surya nominated for T20 Player of the Year
Last year’s winner Suryakumar Yadav has once again been selected for T20 Player of the Year. While Mark Chapman (New Zealand), Alpesh Ramzan (Uganda), Alexander Raja (Zimbabwe) were taught with him for this study.
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Surya played 18 matches in T-20 in the year 2023 and scored 733 runs.
Castle and Sachin nominated for Emerging Player of the Year
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rachin Ratist are among the players nominated for the ICC Emerging Player of the Year. They are also joined by Gerald Kutzi and Dilshan Madushanka.