Kohli, Smith win top ICC awards

 Captains of Australia and India honoured by the International Cricket Council in annual awards

 Australia captain Steve Smith has been crowned the International Cricket Council's Test Player of the Year for a second time, while Indian captain Virat Kohli has been honoured twice in the ICC's annual awards.

 Smith scored more runs and posted more centuries than any Test player in 2017 and his average for the year (76.76) was the highest of any batsman to score more than 500 runs.

It's the fourth time in five years that an Australian has won the award; Michael Clarke (2013), Mitchell Johnson (2014) and Smith (2015) were also crowned the world's best in Tests, while Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin won the award in 2016    
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