ICC Awards: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were bestowed with honours at the annual event (Reuters)

Indian cricketers Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have headlined the ICC Awards for the year 2019 which were announced on Wednesday. While Rohit has been adjudged the 2019 ODI Cricketer of the Year, Kohli was awarded the 2019 Spirit of Cricket award for his heartwarming gesture asking fans not to boo Steve Smith during the World Cup 2019.

Still the biggest ICC prize was reserved for England all-rounder Ben Stokes with the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the world player of the year. Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins won the 2019 Test Cricketer of the Year award for his 59 Test wickets.

Rohit Sharma was in sensational form in 2019. Earlier in the year, he became the first batsman to hit 5 hundreds in a single edition of the World Cup and finished the tournament as the highest run-scorer. He finished the year with 7 ODI hundreds.

Indian opener Mayank Agarwal, who also had a stupendous maiden year in Test cricket was awarded with the opening role in ICC's Test team of the year. Agarwal is the only Indian besides Kohli in the select team which is dominated by 5 Australians (Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon).

On the other hand, the ODI team of the year was dominated by Indians with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav finding a place each.

Earlier in 2019, India's high-scoring clash vs Australia in the World Cup 2019 won many hearts when Kohli asked fans to clap Steve Smith instead of booing hin for serving a ban for ball-tampering.

Steve Smith along with David Warner had been banned for a year for their role in the ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town in 2018. In England, both Smith and Warner have faced a tough time from crowds. On Sunday, while Smith was fielding near the boundary, a few fans booed and jeered at him.

Virat Kohli, who was batting at that moment, asked the crowd to stop the booing and instead applaud Steve Smith.

Speaking to the media after the match, Virat Kohli said he even apologized to Steve Smith on behalf of the crowd.

"Just because there are so many Indian fans here, I just didn't want them to set a bad example, to be honest because he didn't do anything to be booed in my opinion.

"He's just playing cricket. He was just standing there, and I felt bad because if I was in a position where something had happened with me and I had apologized, I accepted it and I came back and still I would get booed, I wouldn't like it, either.

"So I just felt for him, and I told him, I'm sorry on behalf of the crowd because I've seen that happen in a few earlier games, as well, and in my opinion that's not acceptable," Kohli said.

Full List of awards:

Ben Stokes: World player of the year Pat Cummins: 2019 Test Cricketer of the Year Rohit Sharma: 2019 ODI Cricketer of the Year Virat Kohli: 2019 Spirit of Cricket Award Marnus Labuschagne: 2019 ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer Deepak Chahar: 2019 T20I Performer of the Year (6/7 against Bangladesh) Kyle Coetzer: 2019 Associate Cricketer of the Year Richard Illingworth: 2019 Umpire of the Year

ICC ODI Team of the Year 2019: Rohit Sharma, Shai Hope, Virat Kohli (c), Babar Azam, Kane Williamson, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Mitchell Starc, Trent Boult, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav

ICC Test Team of the Year 2019: Mayank Agarwal, Tom Latham, Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli (c), Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, BJ Watling (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Neil Wagner, Nathan Lyon