#2 Virat Kohli
The Indian skipper had one of the best years of his cricketing career, where he scored 1059 runs in 10 Test matches at a mind-boggling average of 75.64. However, though he was by far the best limited-overs batsman, he couldn't quite replicate that form in the Tests.
Kohli slammed three double centuries in the calendar year, to go with five hundreds and a half-century.
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Edited by Arvind Sriram