Another routine year for Kohli, Rashid Khan's annus mirabilis

Virat Kohli topped the run charts for the second year in running. © BCCI

The year 2017 was not short on drama and excitement in the limited-overs circle in international circuit and also T20 leagues across the world. The year witnessed many wonderful moments, including Pakistan lifting the Champions Trophy and Zimbabwe winning a series against a Full Member in 16 years among other things. India happened to suffer two heart breaks in the year, that too in two ICC event finals - while the men lost to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy, the women missed out on their maiden World Cup, losing to England in a humdinger at Lord's.

Virat Kohli stamped his authority yet again as the best limited-overs batsman of his time while Hasan Ali and Rashid Khan announced themselves to the world as the players to watch out for in the coming years. England's drought in 50-over ICC tournaments continued after they crashed out in the semifinal of the Champions Trophy at home while for Sri Lanka, it was a year of whitewashes. Mumbai Indians won their third IPL title and consolidated their position as arguably the best team in the first decade of IPL.

Here's a look at the six key stats from the limited-overs games in 2017:

Kohli's magnificent run in 2017:

For the second year in the running, Virat Kohli topped the run charts in international cricket. He scored 2818 runs in 2017 across three formats and since the start of 2016 has aggregated 5413 runs, comfortably ahead of the rest of the pack. He assumed full-time captaincy in the limited-overs, taking over the mantle from MS Dhoni, and in the first year of his job itself, he broke the record for most ODI runs by a captain in a calendar year - 1460 runs at 76.84 with six hundreds. During the year he galloped past several legends like Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting in terms of ODI centuries with only Sachin Tendulkar (49 hundreds) ahead of him. He asserted his mastery in run-chases yet again by becoming the leading century-maker in run-chases with 19 hundreds, two more than any other player.