Indias off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Tuesday received the Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2016 as well as the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2016 from former India captains and ICC Cricket Hall of Famers Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar. I hope to continue doing well and help my team win many matches in the coming years." I congratulate him for joining a select band of cricketers to have won these two top ICC awards." Kapil Dev, who presented the Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year to Ashwin, said: "Congratulations to Ashwin for winning this ICC award. Not for nothing has he himself been ranked the number-one bowler on the ICC Test rankings for so many weeks."

Source: India Today March 28, 2017 11:10 UTC