Sikandar Raza became the player to get the man of the match title most times in 1 year. He broke the record of Virat Kohli, making a new record. Earlier this record was registered in the name of Virat Kohli. He made this record in the year 2016.
Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan by 1 run in the T20 World Cup 2022 league match. Batting first Zimbabwe scored 130 runs. Although this score was not that big Zimbabwe’s bowling and fielding made this score very tough. Pakistan had to score 11 runs in 6 balls to win, but two wickets fell in two balls of the last over and the Zimbabwe team won by 1 run.
In this match, Zimbabwe bowler Sikandar Raza showed the way to the pavilion to 3 Pakistan middle-order batsmen. Due to his excellent bowling, the course of the match changed. Raza got the player of the match title in this match and he broke the record of Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli. In the year 2022, Raza won the player of the match title for Zimbabwe for the 9th time while other players have done so only 6 times.
Sikander Raza broke the record of Suryakumar Yadav.
So far in 2022, the record of winning the title of Player of the Match for the most number of times in T20 International cricket was recorded in the name of Suryakumar Yadav. Now Sikandar Raza got this record.Surya Kumar Yadav has won the title 5 times in the year 2022. Sikandar Raza surpassed him and won the Man of the Match 6 times.
Players with most Player of the award awards in T20Is in 2022 (Full Members)
6 times – Sikandar Raza
5 times – Suryakumar Yadav
4 times – Kusal Mendis
4 times – Mohammad Rizwan
4 times – Glenn Phillips
Virat Kohli also lags behind Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza also achieved the world record for winning the Man of the Match title for the most time in a year in T20 International cricket. Earlier this record was in the name of Virat Kohli. In the year 2016, Virat Kohli made a career record of winning the match of the match title 6 times in T20 International cricket. Winning this title 7 times in 2022, Raza has now overtaken Kohli to become number one.
Most T20I Man of the Match awards in a year-
7 – Sikandar Raza (2022)
6 – Virat Kohli (2016)
5 – Suryakumar (2022)
5 – Mohammad Rizwan (2021)
5 – Shane Watson (2012)
Ricky Ponting also precise Sikandar Raza
