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Virat Kohli’s 10-year-old tweet goes viral after he luggage ICC Cricketer of the Decade award

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Image Source : TWITTER Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli’s 10-year-old tweet began doing the rounds after he clinched Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade on Monday. To add one other feather to his already illustrious hat, the present India skipper additionally bagged the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade award. 
🇮🇳 VIRAT KOHLI is the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade 👏👏🔝 Only participant with 10,000-plus ODI runs within the #ICCAwards interval💯 39 centuries, 48 fifties🅰️ 61.83 common✊ 112 catchesA run machine 💥🙌 pic.twitter.com/0l0cDy4TYz— ICC (@ICC) December 28, 2020

The ICC introduced their resolution to bestow the honour on Kohli, who scored over 10,000 ODI runs within the interval together with 39 centuries and 48 fifties. Kohli, 32, gathered runs at a formidable common of over 60 to bag the celebrated honour. 
In a tweet that Kohli had shared in 2010, he had written, “Looking forward to scoring lots of runs for my Team”. Fans, very quickly, began sharing the decade-old tweet whereas showering reward on Kohli. 

Looking ahead to scoring a lot of runs for my Team..— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) March 16, 2010

“Firstly it is an important honour for me to obtain this award. Moments that I maintain closest to my coronary heart within the final decade positively needs to be the World Cup win in 2011, the Champions Trophy win in 2013 and successful the collection in Australia in 2018. I maintain them dearly in my coronary heart.
“Apart from that also there have been a lot of special games for Team India over the last decade and for me personally as well. I wouldn’t like to mention the personal knocks so much because then I’d have to rate them and I don’t like doing that because for me every game playing for India is as important and crucial. So it’s just been an honour for me to perform for the country,” mentioned Kohli upon receiving each the awards. 
In a formidable worldwide profession to date, Kohli has gathered 12040 runs in ODIs, 7318 runs in Tests and 2928 runs in T20 Internationals, averaging greater than 50 throughout the three codecs. He was additionally the one participant to characteristic in all three Teams of the Decade introduced on Sunday. While MS Dhoni was named the skipper of T20I and ODI groups, Kohli was elected the captain of the Test XI.