has been honoured with the wisden leading cricketer in the world award for 2016
Virat Kohli
title: Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World text: cricketer Meg Lanning. The most recent awardee is Mithali Raj of India; Australia's Ellyse Perry won for 2016. Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World The "Wisden" Leading Woman Cricketer in the World is an annual cricket award selected by the editor of "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". It was established in 2015, to select the best female cricketer based upon their performances anywhere in the world in the previous calendar year. Prior to the establishment of this dedicated award, women were also eligible for inclusion in "Wisden" Cricketers of the Year; two were selected, England's Claire Taylor in 2009 and Charlotte title: Virat Kohli text: the Year) in 2017; ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012, 2017 and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017. He was given the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018. Alongside his cricket career, Kohli co-owns FC Goa in the ISL, the IPTL franchise UAE Royals and the PWL team Bengaluru Yodhas. He also has other business ventures and over 20 brand endorsements. Kohli is ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPN title: Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World text: selection, Don Bradman was listed the most, winning on ten occasions, while Garfield Sobers was the leading cricketer eight times. Engel noted that despite attempts to the contrary, the award maintains cricket's bias towards batsmen. Unlike "Wisden"s Cricketers of the Year, players can be recognised more than once as the Leading Cricketer in the World, and eighteen players have been selected for multiple years. The majority of these have won the award twice, but five players have been recognised for three or more years: Don Bradman, Garfield Sobers, Jack Hobbs, Viv Richards and Shane Warne. In the 2007 edition which title: Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World text: published the notional historical winners, Engel noted with "surprise and pleasure" that these five players were the same as had been selected as "Wisden"s five Cricketers of the Century. Sachin Tendulkar and Warne have both been selected as notional and actual winners, while Virender Sehwag was the first player to be recognised twice by "Wisden" as an actual winner since 2004. Kumar Sangakkara has since similarly been selected twice, and in 2012 he became the first player to be recognised twice in one edition of "Wisden", as both Leading Cricketer in the World and a Cricketer of the Year. Cricketers title: Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World text: from eight of the ten Test playing nations have been recognised for the award by "Wisden", only Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are not represented. Players from Australia and England dominate the list, having won more than half of the time, although this is disproportionately the case in the notional list. Prior to World War II, 34 of the 36 winners played for Australia or England. The "actual" award winners are more evenly distributed; Indian players have won four times, Australian and Sri Lankan players have won three times, South Africans twice, while only one English player has been recognised since 2004.