Virat Kohli to feature on Wisden 2017 cover

Virat Kohli to feature on Wisden 2017 cover

Question: Which magazine is reputed as The Bible of Cricket?
(a) Wisden
(b) Sports today
(c) The Cricketer
(d) None of the above.
Ans: (a)
Related Fact :

  • As per news report published on 3rd February, 2017, Virat Kohli will be featured on the cover of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2017 following a stellar 2016.
  • A photograph of Kohli playing a reverse sweep in a Test match will be on the cover and word is that he is one of the leading contenders to be named Wisden’s Leading Player of the Year, an accolade put in place in 2004, when Ricky Ponting became the first honoree.
  • The reason behind featuring Kohli playing an unorthodox stroke on the cover page, is to depict the way the game is changing.
  • This comes after the Indian captain became the first person to be ‘the Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of the Year for the second time’.
  • Kohli made 1215 runs from 12 Tests at an average of 75.93 in the last calendar apart from scoring 739 runs from ten One-Day Internationals and 641 runs from 15 Twenty20 Internationals at a whopping average of 106.83.
  • The 28-year-old also led India to three Test series wins last year against the West Indies (2-0), New Zealand (3-0) and England (4-0). After taking over the limited-overs captaincy from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kohli also led India to series victories over England in the three ODIs and three T20Is this year.
  • Kohli becomes only the second Indian, after Sachin Tendulkar in 2014 following his retirement from the game, to be featured on the cover of ‘The Bible of Cricket’.
  • The 154th edition of the Wisden Almanack will be published on April 6.

Reference:
http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-news/kohli-to-feature-on-wisden-2017-cover/239780