Cricket / ICC shares pics of special artwork bats created for 'Players of the Decade'

Cricket Desk: ICC creates special bats for male and female Players of the Decade Virat Kohli and Ellyse Perry : International Cricket Council on Tuesday revealed the ‘special artwork bats’ for Team India’s skipper Virat Kohli and Australia women’s cricketer Ellyse Perry who won the ICC Men Player of the Decade and ICC Women Player of the Decade award respectively.

Notably, ICC on Monday announced the player of the decade awards and Indian skipper Kohli and Ellyse Perry bagged top awards – Cricketers of the Decade, with Kohli adding ODI cricketer of the decade, while Perry clean swept the women’s awards with the ODI and T20I cricketer of the decade awards.

Steve Smith won the Test cricketer of the decade award while Rashid Khan was named T20I cricket of the decade. MS Dhoni won the spirit of the game award.

Here’s the complete list of winners at ICC Awards 2020:

Ellyse Perry — ICC Women’s Player of the Decade, ODI Player of the Decade and T20I Player of the Decade

Virat Kohli — Sir Garfield Sobers Award, ICC Men’s ODI player of the Decade

MS Dhoni — ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade

Rashid Khan — ICC Men’s T20I Player of the Decade

Steve Smith — ICC Men’s Test Player of the Decade

Test Team of the Decade: Alistair Cook, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli (c), Steve Smith, Kumar Sangakkara, Ben Stokes, Ravi Ashwin, Dale Steyn, Stuart Broad and James Anderson.

ICC Men’s ODI Team of the Decade: Rohit Sharma, David Warner, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shakib Al Hasan, MS Dhoni (c), Ben Stokes, Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult, Imran Tahir and Lasith Malinga.

ICC’s T20I Team of the Decade: Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell, MS Dhoni (c), Kieron Pollard, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah and Lasith Malinga.