The year 2025 was a great year for Indian cricket. This year, the Indian cricket team won the Champions Trophy title and then also won the Asia Cup 2025 title. The year 2025 was a great year not only for the Indian cricket team but also for world cricket. For the first time, the South African team won the World Test Championship title. From young cricketers to senior cricketers of India, they performed tremendously this year. Not only India, but players from all the countries including England, Australia, West Indies, New Zealand have also performed brilliantly.
Now the year 2025 is about to end and everyone’s eyes are fixed on the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year award. Virat Kohli is the only player from India who has been nominated by the ICC for the ODI Cricketer of the Year for 2025.
There is competition between these players
But apart from Virat Kohli, many other big stars have performed brilliantly in cricket this year. However, if we look at the last four innings, Virat Kohli has scored more than 50 in all four ODI innings. In such a situation, this question is arising in everyone’s mind whether Virat Kohli will get this big award once again. Let us tell you that apart from Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Matthew Bretzke, Shay Hope, Daryl Mitchell, Matt Henry, Adil Rashid, Sikandar Raza, Mitchell Santner and Jaden Seales have been nominated. All these players have performed brilliantly in the year 2025. However, Rohit Sharma has not been included in this list. Rohit Sharma also performed well in the Champions Trophy and against Australia and South Africa, but he did not find a place in this list.
Look at the performance of Virat Kohli
If we look at the performance of Virat Kohli, he has been the highest run-scorer for India in ODI cricket in the year 2025. Virat Kohli has scored 651 runs in 13 ODI matches. Virat Kohli has scored runs at an average of 65.10. In the year 2025, Virat Kohli has recorded three brilliant centuries and four half-centuries. Recently, against South Africa, Virat Kohli had scored two consecutive centuries, while also scoring a half-century. Virat Kohli had scored a total of 302 runs in the series played against South Africa.
The year 2026 will be important for Virat Kohli in many ways. Let us tell you that in the year 2026, Virat Kohli will be seen playing domestic cricket. Virat Kohli will be seen playing in the Indian domestic List A tournament Vijay Hazare Trophy. Virat Kohli had played in this tournament about a decade ago, so after a long time he will be seen playing in this tournament in domestic cricket.
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