Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match in India vs New Zealand third T20. For the third consecutive T20, different players from India have played the role of match winner. Abhishek Sharma got the POTM award in the first T20 and Ishan Kishan got the POTM award in the second. In the third T20 played in Guwahati, the batsmen created a lot of havoc, but Jasprit Bumrah’s performance was the most special, due to which he was awarded the Player of the Match award. Bumrah took 3 wickets by spending only 17 runs in his quota of 4 overs. With this, Bumrah has equaled former opener and current head coach Gautam Gambhir. Amazing feat of Abhishek Sharma, made this world record without playing a dot ball. Jasprit Bumrah has equaled Gautam Gambhir in the list of players who have won the most Player of the Match awards for India. Both of them won this award by playing an important role in the team’s victory 15 times each in their career. Along with these, the names of Navjot Singh Sidhu and Suresh Raina are also present. There are now 15 more players ahead of Jasprit Bumrah who have won more Player of the Match awards than him. Dewald Brevis’ name is in Kumble’s unlucky club, he got this award in the team’s defeat. Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the ‘God of Cricket’, holds the world record of winning the maximum number of 76 Player of the Match awards. Virat Kohli is right behind him. There is a big difference between Rohit Sharma and Kohli. Kohli has won the POTM award 71 times while Rohit has won it 45 times.
Indians who have won the most Player of the Match awards
76 – Sachin Tendulkar
71-Virat Kohli
45 – Rohit Sharma
37 – Sourav Ganguly
34- Yuvraj Singh
31 – Virender Sehwag
26- Ravindra Jadeja
25 – Rahul Dravid
23- Mohammad Azharuddin
23 – MS Dhoni
19- Shikhar Dhawan
19 – Kapil Dev
17- Ravi Ashwin
16 – Anil Kumble
16- Suryakumar Yadav
15 – Jasprit Bumrah*
15- Gautam Gambhir
15 – Suresh Raina
15- Navjot Sidhu
14-Kuldeep Yadav
14- Ravi Shastri
13 – Irfan Pathan
13- K Srikanth
12- Zaheer Khan
12- KL Rahul
12 – Javagal Srinath
11- Hardik Pandya
11 – Harbhajan Singh
11-Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
10- Akshar Patel
10 – Sunil Gavaskar
10 – Mohinder Amarnath
10- VVS Laxman
10-Ajay Jadeja
