Tendulkar, the matchwinner

There is always a raging debate on how many matches Tendulkar has won for the team. People argue that cricketers like Ponting and Gilchrist have won more matches for their teams. I also believed that Tendulkar has such great cricketing record not because he has been winning more matches for his team but because he has been always been very consistent. But sadly even if you are one of his biggest fan, you cannot form correct opinion.
If you look at actutal number of odi's man of the match awards, you find that Tendulkar has won more man of the match award than any other player. This is not surprising considering the fact that he has played more matches than any other player. But what is surprising that he has won more man of the match award per match than any current active player ( among players who have won more than 14 man of the match award). Only two players in the history had been more prolific than Tendulkar in winning man of the match awards: Greenidge and Vivian Richards. But they played lot less number of matches compared to Tendulkar.


S.no. Match and series awards
Player		 Nor of matches Match Awards Series Awards Nor of matches/ Man of the match award Nor of matches/Man of the series award
1 SR Tendulkar 463 62 14 7.5 33.1
2 ST Jayasuriya 445 48 11 9.3 40.5
3 JH Kallis  321 32 5 10.0 64.2
4 RT Ponting 375 32 7 11.7 53.6
5 SC Ganguly  311 31 6 10.0 51.8
6 IVA Richards  187 31 4 6.0 46.8
7 PA de Silva  308 30 3 10.3 102.7
8 BC Lara  299 30 4 10.0 74.8
9 Shahid Afridi  347 29 2 12.0 173.5
10 AC Gilchrist  287 28 3 10.3 95.7
11 Saeed Anwar  247 28 1 8.8 247.0
12 NJ Astle 223 25 1 8.9 223.0
13 DL Haynes  238 25 0 9.5 #DIV/0!
14 Yuvraj Singh  274 25 7 11.0 39.1
15 Inzamam-ul-Haq  378 24 6 15.8 63.0
16 A Ranatunga  269 24 3 11.2 89.7
17 V Sehwag  245 23 1 10.7 245.0
18 HH Gibbs  248 22 2 11.3 124.0
19 SM Pollock 303 22 8 13.8 37.9
20 Wasim Akram  356 22 3 16.2 118.7
21 CH Gayle  229 21 7 10.9 32.7
22 A Symonds  198 21 4 9.4 49.5
23 ME Waugh  244 21 0 11.6 #DIV/0!
24 SR Waugh  325 21 2 15.5 162.5
25 MS Atapattu  268 20 4 13.4 67.0
26 CG Greenidge  128 20 2 6.4 64.0
27 KC Sangakkara  330 20 3 16.5 110.0
40 MS Dhoni  206 16 5 12.9 41.2

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