Three Indians Who Won Both ODI & T20I Man Of The Match Award In 2020

The Indian cricket team hasn’t played a lot of cricket in the year 2020 due to obvious reasons but the start of the year and the end of the year has been with some high-quality cricket. India started the year with an ODI series win against Australia and then went to New Zealand where they whitewashed the Blackcaps in the shortest format. Many players got the accolades in the form of Man of the Match awards in the series played by their performances.

The ODIs didn’t go as per plan as the Indian team lost the series 3-0. India didn’t play a white ball game for the next 8 months as the next game was directly in Australia in November. India lost the recently concluded ODI series, but they made a strong comeback and won the T20I series. There were many key performers for India in the white-ball formats but only three Indians won the Man of the Match award in both the ODI & T20I formats in 2020. So, let’s have a look at those three players.




  1. Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma missed the recently concluded white-ball series against Australia, but he has still managed to win the Man of the Match award in both formats. The Indian openers won the Man of the Match award in the third ODI against Australia in Bangalore. The series was levelled 1-1 and India had to chase down 287 to win the series. Rohit Sharma scored 119 off 128 balls which helped India win the decider and the series.

He also won the Man of the Match Award in the third T20I against New Zealand which India won the super over. India batted first and Rohit Sharma scored 65 off just 40 balls which helped India reach 179-5 in their 20 overs. The match went into a super over and India needed 10 runs off the last two balls when Sharma smashed Tim Southee for two sixes. India won the third T20I in a row and won the series. As a result, Rohit Sharma won the Man of the Match award in both formats.

  1. KL Rahul



KL Rahul has been India’s top performer in both the white-ball formats in 2020. He won the Man of the Match awards in the 2nd ODI against Australia and the 2nd T20I against New Zealand. In the 2nd ODI against Australia, coming in at No.5, Rahul scored 80 runs off just 52 balls which took India’s total to 340 in their 50 overs. India won that game which helped them level the series 1-1.

In the 2nd T20I against New Zealand, India was chasing 133 and KL Rahul was unbeaten on 57 off 50 balls with three fours and two sixes. He even scored a century in one of the ODIs against New Zealand but didn’t get the Man of the Match as India lost the game.

  1. Hardik Pandya

Three Indians Who Won Both ODI & T20I Man Of The Match Award In 2020

Hardik Pandya came back into the Indian time after a long time due to an injury. He was sensational in the India-Australia ODI and T20I series. In the third ODI, India was struggling at 152-5 and Pandya scored an unbeaten 92 off just 76 balls with 7 fours and one six. His partnership with Jadeja helped India go past 300 and eventually they won the game by 13 runs. He won the Man of the Match award in that game.

In the T20I series, in the second T20I, he scored 42* off just 22 balls and finished off a huge chase with two sixes as India won the game and the series at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He not only won the Man of the Match award for that game, but he also won the Player of the Series Award in the T20I series.

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