Dubai: Talismanic Indian skipper Virat Kohli and his fellow countryman Ravichandran Ashwin lead the nominations for the coveted ICC Men's Player of the Decade Award while Mithali Raj finds herself in the slot of Women's Player of the Decade award for their performance in the last 10 years.
Besides the Indian duo, Joe Root (England), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Steve Smith (Australia), AB de Villiers (South Africa), and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) are the other contenders in this category.
In the women category, other than Raj, Ellyse Perry (Australia), Meg Lanning (Australia), Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies) and Sarah Taylor (England) have also been nominated.
In the Men's ODI Player of the Decade category, former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and run-machine Rohit Sharma also found a place alongside Kohli, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Mitchell Starc (Australia), de Villiers and Sangakkara.
Kohli and Rohit also featured in the Men's T20I Player of the Decade category, which also included Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Imran Tahir (South Africa), Aaron Finch (Australia), Malinga and Chris Gayle (West Indies).
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Kohli has also been nominated in the Men's Test Player of the Decade and ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade categories.
Veteran Indian stars Jhulan Goswami and Raj have been nominated in Women's ODI Player of the Decade award.
The final winners will be decided on the basis of the number of votes.
List of nominations:
Men's player of the decade: Virat Kohli (India) Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Joe Root (England), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Steve Smith (Australia), AB de Villiers (South Africa), and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka).
Women's ODI Player of the Decade: Meg Lanning (Australia), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Mithali Raj (India), Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies) and Jhulan Goswami (India).
Women's Player of the Decade: Ellyse Perry (Australia), Meg Lanning (Australia), Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), Mithali Raj (India), Sarah Taylor (England).
Men's ODI Player of the Decade: Virat Kohli (India), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Mitchell Starc (Australia), AB de Villiers, Rohit Sharma (India), MS Dhoni (India), and Kumara Sangakkara (Sri Lanka).
Men's Test Player of the Decade: Virat Kohli (India), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Smith, James Anderson (England), Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka), and Yasir Shah (Pakistan).
Men's T20I Player of the Decade: Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Virat Kohli (India), Imran Tahir (South Africa), Aaron Finch (Australia), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Chris Gayle (West Indies), and Rohit Sharma (India).
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade: Virat Kohli (India), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Brendon McCullum (New Zealand), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan), MS Dhoni (India), Anya Shrubsole (England), Katherine Brunt (England), Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), and Daniel Vettori (New Zealand).
ICC Women's ODI Team of the Decade
Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Tammy Beaumont (England), Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Ekta Bisht (India), Katherine Brunt (England), Trisha Chetty (South Africa), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Kim Garth (Ireland), Jhulan Goswami (India), Alyssa Healy (Australia), Shabnim Ismail (South Africa), Jess Jonassen (Australia), Marizanne Kapp (South Africa), Harmanpreet Kaur (India), Javeria Khan (Pakistan), Heather Knight (England), Meg Lanning (Australia), Sune Luus (South Africa), Smriti Mandhana (India), Sana Mir (Pakistan), Anisa Mohammed (West Indies), Shikha Pandey (India), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Mithali Raj (India), Amy Satterthwaite (New Zealand), Megan Schutt (Australia), Anya Shrubsole (England), Stefanie Taylor (West Indies), Sarah Taylor (England), Dane Van Niekerk (South Africa)
ICC ODI Team of the Decade Nominees
Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan), Hashim Amla (South Africa), R Ashwin (India), Trent Boult (New Zealand), Jasprit Bumrah (India), Jos Buttler (England), Quniton de Kock (South Africa), AB de Villiers (South Africa) Shikhar Dhawan (India), MS Dhoni (India), Faf du Plessis (South Africa), T Dilshan (Sri Lanka), Aaron Finch (Australia), Martin Guptill (New Zealand), Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan), Shai hope (West Indies), Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Mitchell johnson (Australia), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Virat kohli (India), lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Angelo Mathews (Sri Lanka), Brendon Mccullum (New Zealand), Misbah UL-Haq (Pakistan), Eoin Morgan (England), Morne Morkel (South Africa), Mashrafe Mortaza (Bangladesh), Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan), Thisara Perera (Sri Lanka), Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) Mushifiqur Rahim (Bangladesh) Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh), Adil Rashid (England), Joe Root (England), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Mohammed Shami (India), Rohit Sharma (India), Steve Smith (Australia), Mitchell Starc (Australia), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Paul Sterling (Ireland), Ben Stokes (England), Imran Tahir (South Africa), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe), David Warner (Australia), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Chris Woakes (England), Dawlat Zadran (Afghanistan)
