Sri Lanka, April 11 -- The world renowned Wisden Magazine has named the captain of the Indian Team Virat Kohli as the best cricket player for the year 2018.

As a batsman last year he has scored 2735 at a rate of approximately 68.37, which included 11 centuries.

Virat Kohli was named the best player in the years 2017 and 2016 by Wisden as well.

Srimathie Mandana of the Indian cricket team has been selected as the best female cricketer of the year for 2018 and Rasheed Khan of the Afghanistan team has been named as the best twenty-twenty cricketer.

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