India's captain Virat Kohli swept the ICC awards having been named both cricketer and captain of the year. He was also named ODI player of the year.
The ICC cricketer of the year honour has been awarded a second time in succession to an Indian. Last year, the award went to R. Ashwin.
This is the second time that Kohli has won the ICC player of the year award.
“I won that back in 2012 also but it's the first time winning the Garfield Sobers Trophy, and it's a huge honour for me. It's probably the biggest of all in world cricket and two Indians getting it back-to-back makes it more special,” he said in a statement.
In the period between September 2016 and end of 2017, Kohli scored 2,203 Test runs at an average of 77.80 including eight centuries, 1,818 ODI runs including seven centuries at 82.63, and 299 T20I runs at a strike rate of 153.
“It means a lot to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for becoming the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2017 and also the ICC ODI Player of the Year,” he said.
The 29-year-old was also named captain of the ICC Test and ODI teams of the year.
The Test Player of the Year honour went to Australia captain Steven Smith who scored 1,875 runs in 16 matches at an average of 78.12, with eight hundreds and five 50s. In the ICC rankings, he has climbed to 947 points, just 14 shy of Don Bradman' high watermark of 961.
The ODI Cricketer of the Year award was given to a non-South African for the first time since 2013, with Quinton de Kock receiving the honour in 2016 and AB de Villiers winning it in 2014 and 2015.
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan was adjudged ICC Associate Cricketer of the Year after taking 60 wickets in 2017―a record for an associate player in a calendar year―and a record 43 in ODIs.
With inputs from agencies
