ITS HAT-TRICK FOR KOHLI.

Kohli Became Wisden Leading Crickter Of The Year For The Third Time In A Row. Smriti Mandhana The Leading Women’s Crickter Of The Year.

Kohli alongwith Tammy Beaumont, Sam Curran,Rory Burns and Jos Buttler were included in the Five Wisden Cricketers of the Year.The Wisden’s T-20 Leading Cricketer Of The Year was Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan.He took 22 wickets for Afghanistan in 2018.

KOHLI’S PERFORMANCE IN 2018.

	MATCH	INNINGS	RUNS	HS	AVE	SR	100	50
TESTS	13	24	1322	153	55	54	5	5
ODIS	14	14	1202	160	134	103	6	3
T-20S	10	9	211	61	30	122	0	1

Wisden has been listing the cricketers since 1889.The criteria is based on the performance in previous English Season.Virat scored 2735 runs across all the formats of the cricket.Kohli had a phenomenal English Summer where he scored 593 runs an average of 59.3 in a series of five Test Matches.He has now joined the league of Don Bradman,Garfield Sorbers,Jack Hobbs,Viv Richards and Shane Warne who have won the award more than thrice. Tammy Beaumont,the English opener scored 452 runs in One Day Internationals 432 runs in T-20 internationals.Jos Buttler scored 760 runs at an average of 44.70 in Test matches it includes a century against India at Trent Bridge.Sam Curran made his Test Debut in last summer against India.In the series he scored 272 and took 11 wickets.The All-Rounder was awarded the Player Of The Series Award.Burns scored 1359 at an average of 64.71 in The County Championship and was selected for the Test tours of Sri-Lanka and West-Indies.

WINNERS OF THE WISDEN LEADING CRICKETER OF THE YEAR.

NAME	COUNTRY	YEAR
DON BRADMAN	AUSTRALIA	1930,31,32,34,36,37,38,39,46,1948
GARFIELD SOBERS	WEST-INDIES	1958,60,62,64,65,66,68,1970
VIV RICHARDS	WEST-INDIES	1976,78,1980
SHANE WARNE	AUSTRALIA	1993,97,2004
SYDNES BARNES	ENGLAND	1912,1913
C.B.FRY	ENGLAND	1901,1903
LEN HUTTON	ENGLAND	1949,1952
BRIAN LARA	WEST-INDIES	1994,1995
DENNIS LILLEE	AUSTRALIA	1972,1977
CHARLIE MACARTNEY	AUSTRALIA	1921,1926
MALCOM MARSHALL	WEST-INDIES	1986,1988
MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN	SRI-LANKA	2000,2006
GRAEME POLLOCK	SOUTH AFRICA	1967,1969
KUMAR SANGAKKARA	SRI-LANKA	2011,2014
VIRENDRA SEHWAG	INDIA	2008,2009
SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR	INDIA	1998,2010
VICTOR TRUMPER	AUSTRALIA	1902,1911
VIRAT KOHLI	INDIA	2016,17,2018

WINNERS OF THE WISDEN LEADING WOMEN CRICKETER OF THE YEAR.

India’s Smriti Mandhana was choosen as the Leading Women’s Crickter Of The Year. She scored 669 runs in One Day Internationals and 662 T-20 Internationals in 2018.She became the second Indian Women Cricketer to win this award after Mithali Raj.