“Great words from great player” PAK cricketer showers praise on Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli has added another feather in his cap yesterday. And this time it was not due to his brilliance with the bat. He won the spirit of cricket award for the year 2019 at ICC awards.

Mohammad Amir praises India skipper

Pakistani pacer Mohammad Amir has come out and posted his reaction on social media. He replied as, ”Great words from great player”. Mohammad Amir has a good relationship with Virat Kohli. Earlier during world T20 2016, both players were seen exchanging their kits during a warm-up session at Eden Gardens.

Great words from great player

— Mohammad Amir (@iamamirofficial) January 15, 2020

The Incident

In the details, India were playing Australia during group stages of ICC cricket world cup 2019 at The Oval. Steve Smith was fielding at mid-on boundary while Virat Kohli was batting in the middle. Indian crowd were booing Smith for ball-tampering gate.

Virat Kohli didn’t like it and straight away signalled crowd to cheer him instead of booing. After the game, Virat Kohli said that he would not like the Indian crowd to set bad examples with this type of behaviour. Virat Kohli won the spirit of cricket award for this incident.

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 A Round-up of ICC awards 2019

ICC declared annual awards for the calendar year 2019 yesterday. Ben Stokes declared as Men’s cricketer of the year. Rohit Sharma won ODI cricketer of the year while Pat Cummins took the honours for Test cricketer of the year award. MarnusLabuschagnewon the emerging player of the year award after a stellar year on the International stage. Virat Kohli was named as captains of ODI and test teams of the year. Deepak Chahar was given best T20 performance of the year for his Six wicket haul against Bangladesh.

A World Cup winner and scorer of one of the greatest Test innings of all time, Ben Stokes is the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the world player of the year.#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/5stP1fqSAP

— ICC (@ICC) January 15, 2020

5️⃣9️⃣ Test wickets in 2019 ?

14 more than any other bowler ?

Pat Cummins is the 2019 Test Cricketer of the Year ? #ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/QDC4LW1oHl

— ICC (@ICC) January 15, 2020

5️⃣ #CWC19 centuries
7️⃣ ODI centuries in 2019

Your 2019 ODI Cricketer of the Year is Rohit Sharma.#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com/JYAxBhJcNn

— ICC (@ICC) January 15, 2020

India look to square the series against Australia

After a very bad day at the office in first ODI, team India will look to bounce back and level the series at Rajkot. Rishabh Pant is ruled out of ODI due to concussion protocols. It will be interesting to see who will replace Pant in the Indian lineup. Manish Pandey and Shivam Dubey are two contenders for the spot.

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