(REUTERS) – Indian captain Virat Kohli capped a memorable 2018 season by becoming the first to win the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) cricketer, Test and one-day international (ODI) player-of-the-year awards, the ICC said yesterday.

Kohli, the top scorer in both Tests and one-dayers in 2018, was also named captain of the ICC Test and ODI teams-of-the-year.
The 30-year-old top-order batsman scored 1 322 runs in 13 Tests at an average of 55.08, and scored 1 202 runs in 14 ODIs at an average of 133.55, notching up 11 centuries across the formats.

“It feels amazing. It’s a reward for all the hard work that you do throughout the calendar year,” Kohli said in a statement.
“To be rewarded in this manner … is a very proud moment for me and something that gives you more motivation to keep repeating the same things because you have to keep the standard of cricket up and keep bringing in consistent performances.”

Kohli, who won Cricketer and ODI player-of-the-year in 2017, was the unanimous choice for the former award in 2018, with South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada finishing runner-up, the ICC said.

Rabada also finished second in the Test player category, while Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan was runner-up to Kohli for the ODI award.

ICC awards:
Test team-of-the-year: Tom Latham, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli (captain), Henry Nicholls, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Jason Holder, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Lyon, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Abbas.

ODI team-of-the-year: Rohit Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Virat Kohli (captain), Joe Root, Ross Taylor, Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Ben Stokes, Mustafizur Rahman, Rashid Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah.

ICC Men’s Cricketer-of-the-Year – Virat Kohli (India)
Men’s Test Cricketer-of-the-Year – Virat Kohli (India)
Men’s ODI Cricketer-of-the-Year – Virat Kohli (India)
Men’s Emerging Cricketer-of-the-Year – Rishabh Pant (India)
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Men’s Associate Cricketer-of-the-Year – Calum Macleod (Scotland)
Men’s T20I Performance-of-the-Year – Aaron Finch (172 off 76 balls v Zimbabwe)(Australia)
Umpire-of-the-Year – Kumar Dharmasena
Spirit-of-Cricket – Kane Williamson (New Zealand)