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List: “Player of the Tournament” in all Border Gavaskar Trophy Series

We have all seen how the best players show up in the biggest of matches, and there couldn’t be any bigger stage than the Border Gavaskar Trophy itself. When two of the leading cricketing sides contest in the toughest of formats, the hardest of characters shine bright and will not be just the Player of the moments but the tournament.

This article will list the winners of the Man of the Series awards in all the Border-Gavaskar trophy tournaments since its inception in 1996.

SEASON HOST RESULT PLAYER OF THE SERIES
1996–97  India India (1-0)  Nayan Mongia
1997–98  India India (2-1)  Sachin Tendulkar
1999–2000  Australia Australia (3-0)  Sachin Tendulkar (C)
2000–01  India India (2-1)  Harbhajan Singh
2003–04  Australia Drawn (1-1)  Rahul Dravid
2004–05  India Australia (2-1)  Damien Martyn
2007–08  Australia Australia (2-1)  Brett Lee
2008–09  India India (2-0)  Ishant Sharma
2010–11  India India (2-0)  Sachin Tendulkar
2011–12  Australia Australia (4-0)  Michael Clarke (C)
2012–13  India India (4-0)  Ravichandran Ashwin
2014–15  Australia Australia (2-0)  Steve Smith
2016–17  India India (2-1)  Ravindra Jadeja
2018–19  Australia India (2-1)  Cheteshwar Pujara
2020–21  Australia India (2-1)  Pat Cummins
2022–23  India India (2-1) Ravindra Jadeja/Ravichandran Ashwin

Key Stats

The 1996 edition has only one Test in that series, so we have named the Player of the Match, Nayan Mongia, in the PoT spot, but we haven’t included him in the counts below.

Ten out of 15 times, an Indian player has received the MoS recognition, whereas Australian players have won it 5 times.

Sachin Tendulkar has won the Player of the Tournament in the BGT series thrice. Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and the leading run-scorer in BGT tournament history, Sachin Tendulkar are the only three players to win the award for more than once.

Eight times batters have won the award, whereas bowlers have won it six times, considering Ravindra Jadeja as a bowler as he was the leading wicket-taker(25) of that edition but not part of the top ten run-scorers. Only for the first time, in 2023 edition, the Man of the Series was given to Jadeja and Ashwin together.

Ravichandran Ashwin and Jadeja, two of the top-5 wicket-takers in the tournament, have two MOS in the Test series against Australia.