Main point:
Shubman Gill was adjudged Man of the Match after a brilliant performance in Edgbaston Test. This was the first award of his Test career. With this, he has joined the 19 players of India who have won the Man of the Match Award in Tests, ODIs and T20s.
Delhi: With 430 runs in Edgbaston Test against England and India’s victory, no one was probably on the equal of Shubman Gill in the Man of the Match race. He became the man of the match and with this he made a big special record which was ignored. This was his first Man of the Match Award in Test cricket and most of the most is that with this he came in the list of India’s cricketers whose names are in all three formats of cricket, Man of the Match Award. It is certain that there are no names in this list who did not have a format of T20 in the era of cricket career.
Records of Shubman Gill:
- Shubman Gill is the 19th Indian cricketer to win the Man of the Match award in all three formats of cricket.
- All 19 names of this list: Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Ravi Ashwin, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Jaspreet Bumrah, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Akhar Patel and Shubhman Gill.
- Note that there is not a big name in this list. This name is of Sachin Tendulkar, who won the most man of the match award in international cricket till date. He has a total of 76 (14 Tests +62 ODIs) Man of the Match Award, but there is no Award for T20 International. He played just a T20 International and did not have the man of the match.
- Cricketers who have the Man of the Match Awards of the three formats are in the counting of these awards, not only from India but also at the top in international cricket, with a total of 69 awards (10 Tests +43 ODI + 16 T20).
- The specialty is that he is the only cricketer who has won at least 10 awards in all three formats.
- Shubman Gill had earlier won 7 Man of the Match in ODIs and 1 Man of the Match in T20.
- Virat Kohli is the only cricketer in India who has won the Man of the Match Award in all three formats in the match played as captain.
The top 3 Indian cricketers win the most man of the match award in all three formats:
- Virat Kohli 69 Awards in 550 matches (10+ 43+ 16)
Rohit Sharma 44 Awards in 499 matches (4+ 26+ 14)
Ravindra Jadeja 360 matches in 360 matches (10+ 12+ 3) - In the list of Indian cricketers who did not win the award in all three formats, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Rahul played in the era of these three formats
Cricketers like Dravid and MS Dhoni are not named.
