Indian skipper Virat Kohli will feature on the cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, reported the Wisden website.

Kohli, who made two centuries in India’s 4-0 Test series against England, including a career-best 235 in Mumbai, is pictured playing a reverse sweep on the cover of the magazine that will be published in April. Kohli has also led India to an amazing series against England winning the one-day and T20 series as well.

Speaking to Wisden India, Lawrence Booth, the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack editor, said, “I spent several weeks in India covering England’s recent Test series and it was clear that Kohli has taken the next step in his career. He is now indisputably a great Test batsman, as well as a once-in-a-lifetime white-ball batsman. He ran the show, on and off the field. He’s even creating a little distance between him and the other great batsmen of the age – (Steve) Smith, (Kane) Williamson, (Joe) Root and AB de Villiers. So I felt it was the right moment to make him Wisden’s cover star. I think it would take a fairly one-eyed England supporter to argue with that!”

Kohli has smashed 1215 runs from 12 Tests at an average of 75.93 in the last calendar year apart from scoring 739 runs from ten one-day Internationals and 641 runs from 15 Twenty20 Internationals at a whopping average of 106.83. Kohli will become the second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar in 2014 following his retirement, to be featured on the cover. The 154th edition of the Wisden Almanack will be published on April 6.