{"id":19258,"date":"2018-01-19T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=19258"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:42:20","slug":"kohli-named-icc-cricketer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kohli-named-icc-cricketer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli named ICC Cricketer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai,<br \/>\nIndia captain Virat Kohli had something to cheer on Thursday when he was named ICC World Cricketer of the Year, a day after suffering his first Test series defeat as skipper in South Africa. The 29-year-old was rewarded for his prolific run in the qualification period from September 2016 to the end of 2017, in which he amassed 2,203 runs in Tests, 1,818 in ODIs and 299 in T20Is.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli, who also led India to the top of the world\u2019s Test rankings during the period, received the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, which teammate Ravichandran Ashwin had won last year. The top order batsman was also adjudged the ODI Player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for becoming the ICC Cricketer of the Year and also the ICC ODI Player of the Year,\u201d Kohli, who was named captain of both the ICC Test and ODI teams for the year, said in an ICC statement.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, India captain Virat Kohli had something to cheer on Thursday when he was named ICC World Cricketer of the Year, a day after suffering his first Test series defeat as skipper in South Africa. The 29-year-old was rewarded for his prolific run in the qualification period from September 2016 to the end of 2017, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19260,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions\/19260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}