Rohit Sharma leads ICC ODI Team of the Year dominated by Indians

Rohit Sharma was on Tuesday named captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year, which featured 5 different Indians together with star batter Virat Kohli and the tempo duo of Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

The crew principally included the World Cup finalists – India (runner-up) and Australia (winner) – apart from gamers from semi-finalists New Zealand and South Africa, the ICC stated in an announcement.

The high order contains openers Rohit and Shubman Gill. While the Indian captain gathered 1,255 runs at a median of 52 final yr, the latter struck an excellent 208 towards the Kiwis and in addition completed as the best run-scorer (1,584) within the format.

ICC ODI Team of the yr.
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At quantity three was Travis Head, who was constant all year long and carried out exceptionally properly throughout the international occasion, along with his 137 within the closing being the spotlight.

The center order comprised Indian stalwart Kohli, adopted by Daryl Mitchell, Heinrich Klaasen and Marco Jansen.

Kohli completed because the second-highest run-scorer of the yr in ODIs (1,337) and slammed six centuries throughout the yr. He surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s document of most worldwide tons, apart from profitable the Player of the Tournament award throughout the World Cup.

Mitchell scored 5 centuries and gathered 1,204 runs at a median of 52.34 and a strike price of 100.24.

Klaasen too dominated the entire yr with the bat, along with his spotlight being the match-winning 174 versus Australia in Centurion.

The bowling assault was made up of Australian Adam Zampa together with the Indian trio of Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Shami.

Zampa took 38 wickets in your complete yr at a median of 26.31 and in addition fetched a four-for in three successive World Cup fixtures, apart from ending because the second-highest wicket-taker within the competitors.

Siraj got here up with 44 wickets within the yr, the excessive level being six for 21 towards Sri Lanka throughout the Asia Cup closing that India gained deservingly.

Kuldeep captured 49 ODI wickets final yr, along with his greatest figures being 5 for 25 versus Pakistan throughout the Asia Cup’s Super-Four stage.

Shami was dominant all year long, claiming 4 fifers, whereas his greatest figures had been seven for 57 towards New Zealand throughout the World Cup semi-final in Mumbai.

No Indian discovered a spot within the ICC’s girls’s crew of the yr.