11 players with the most 'Man of the Match' awards in the first 11 IPL seasons

#5 David Warner - 15

David Warner

After the ball tampering fiasco, David Warner was banned from taking part in the 2018 season of IPL but the southpaw still manages to retain a top 5 spot on the list of players with the most man of the match awards. He is the only player other than MS Dhoni to score more than 4000 runs with an average in excess of 40.

Warner made his debut in 2009 for the Delhi Daredevils but he won his first man of the match only in 2010. He scored an unbeaten 109 off just 67 balls to helped Delhi Daredevils post a total of 177 and helped his side win the match by 40 runs. During his five year association with the double Ds, he won the MoM award on five occasions.

David Warner's true calling came when he joined the Orange army in 2014. In the first three seasons that he played for the Hyderabad based franchise, he won the MoM award 9 times. Playing for SRH, his first man of the match award came against the Royal Challengers Bangalore when he scored 59 runs to help his side chase down the target set by RCB.

Considering his ability to lead from the front with the bat, the Sunrisers' thinktank handed him the captaincy and were duly rewarded for the decision. Warner led Sunrisers Hyderabad to their maiden title in 2016. After winning the title, he won only one MoM award in 2017. By scoring 126 runs against Kolkata in the tenth season, he became the only Sunrisers batsman to score a century for the franchise.