India captain Virat Kohli has been named Leading Cricketer in the World for a second year running in the 2018 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
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Writing in the Almanack, out now, editor Lawrence Booth said: “For the second year in a row, Indian captain Virat Kohli is Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World. In all formats in 2017, he scored 2,818 runs – more than 700 ahead of Joe Root in second place. Three of his five Test hundreds were doubles, and the other two unbeaten, and his 1,460 one-day international runs were unsurpassed.”
Raj’s India lost out to England in a scintillating World Cup final at Lord’s, with 2018 Wisden Almanack cover star and Cricketer of the Year Anya Shrubsole taking six wickets for the home side.
Elsewhere three of England Women’s World Cup winners were among the traditional Five Cricketers of the Year, along with West Indies’ Shai Hope and Essex’s Jamie Porter, while Rashid Khan was the first ever to be named Leading Twenty20 Cricketer in the World.
