Pakistan captain Babar Azam received the ICC ODI Player of the Year award for the second time in a row on Thursday. Babar scored 679 runs from 9 matches at a median of 84.87 with three centuries. Apart from his particular person consistency, Babar additionally had 12 months as captain. While Pakistan might have had a slightly forgettable finish to the 12 months, significantly in Test cricket, they misplaced only one ODI on this interval.
Meanwhile, former India captain Virat Kohli, a participant with whom Babar is commonly in contrast, didn’t make the ultimate checklist of nominations. While Kohli has skilled an uptick in his type in current months, significantly in ODI cricket, he hardly performed any sport within the format as India reserved their greatest gamers for T20Is in preparation for the T20 World Cup, and Test cricket, which they solely performed sporadically in 2022.
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While most of followers of the 2 gamers do respect the opposite, simply as Babar and Kohli themselves have expressed admiration for one another over time, there have been just a few followers of the Pakistan captain who determined to take this second to throw shade on the previous India skipper. This included just a few tweets which said that Kohli had received “ICC Umpire of the Year”, in reference to accusations that had been hurled on the 34-year-old for influencing umpire selections throughout an exhilarating match between India and Pakistan within the 2022 T20 World Cup.
The two gamers have typically expressed admiration for one another. Babar voiced his assist for Kohli whereas the latter went by means of a lean patch for practically three years. Kohli, however, has stated that he might not have felt an excessive amount of kinship with Babar because the 28-year-old is a few years junior to him, however he’s not stunned by the success that the Pakistan captain has loved in all codecs.
“Babar is a very nice guy. I have always had good conversations with him. I am not sure about kinship since he is much younger to me, but there is respect. There is always respect,” Kohli had stated. “He was always keen to learn. He spoke to me after our game in the 2019 World Cup. I have always said he is keen to learn, and there’s no surprise that he is playing like this in all formats of the game. He is obviously a very talented player,” Kohli added.
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