Stats: Ashwin tops list of players with more Man of the Series than Man of the Match
In cricket, usually Man of the Match award is considered much easier to win than Man of the Series Award, for the number of MOM is always more than the MOS awards. Winning an MOS Award and not MOM shows that a person has consistently performed in the whole series – always putting in his due share and leading his team to victory in the series.
He does not perform exceptionally well in one game and ordinarily in others of the series. He performs exceptionally well in almost every game. In the long and illustrious history of Tests, there are a few players to have won more MOS Awards than MOM Awards.
Ravichandran Ashwin is one of those players. He got his 5th MOM Award in the Freedom Trophy 2015/16 while he has 4 MOM Awards to his name.
The table of Test players to have won more MOS Awards than MOM is given.
| Player | Span | Matches | Man-of-Match | Man-of-Series |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (India) | 2011-2015 | 32 | 4 | 5 |
| Andrew Strauss (Eng) | 2004-2012 | 100 | 2 | 5 |
| Heath Streak (Zim) | 1993-2005 | 65 | 1 | 4 |
| Saeed Ajmal (Pak) | 2009-2014 | 35 | 2 | 3 |
| Joel Garner (WI) | 1977-1987 | 58 | 0 | 2 |
| Kemar Roach (WI) | 2009-2015 | 34 | 1 | 2 |
| Yasir Shah (Pak) | 2014-2015 | 12 | 0 | 2 |
| Stephen Boock (NZ) | 1978-1989 | 30 | 0 | 1 |
| Ravi Bopara (Eng) | 2007-2012 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| Alastair Campbell (Zim) | 1992-2002 | 60 | 0 | 1 |
| John Edrich (Eng) | 1963-1976 | 77 | 0 | 1 |
| Fidel Edwards (WI) | 2003-2012 | 55 | 0 | 1 |
| Mahela Jayawardene (SL) | 2000-2015 | 58 | 0 | 1 |
| Alan Knott (Eng) | 1967-1981 | 95 | 0 | 1 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India) | 2013-2015 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Ajantha Mendis (SL) | 2008-2014 | 19 | 0 | 1 |
| Moin Khan (Pak) | 1990-2004 | 69 | 0 | 1 |
| Dilruwan Perera (SL) | 2014-2015 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Robiul Islam (Ban) | 2010-2014 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Chris Rogers (Aus) | 2008-2015 | 25 | 0 | 1 |
| Tim Southee (NZ) | 2008-2015 | 44 | 0 | 1 |
| Ross Taylor (Eng) | 1971-1984 | 57 | 0 | 1 |
| Derek Underwood (Eng) | 1966-1982 | 86 | 0 | 1 |
2- Players to win mutiple MOS without winning a single MOM Award. Yasir Shah has recently joined Joel Garner in this rare list.
3- The difference between MOS and MOM won by Andrew Strauss and Heath Streak- the best difference any player has maintained.
0- Number of South African players feature on this list- otherwise every country has at least one representative.
INDIAN PLAYERS WITH MOST MAN OF THE SERIES
Ravichandran Ashwin got his 5th MOS Award in Test Career- which are joint most for any Indian player. Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar has also got 5 each. Interesting to note is the fact that Ashwin has played only 32 Tests, while all other two have played matches in excess of 100. Quite of achievement? Don’t you think!
| Player | Span | Matches | Man-of-Match | Man-of-Series |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 2011-2015 | 32 | 4 | 5 |
| Virender Sehwag | 2001-2013 | 103 | 8 | 5 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 1989-2013 | 200 | 14 | 5 |
MOST MAN OF THE SERIES AWARDS IN TESTS SINCE ASHWIN’S DEBUT
5- Number of MOS Awards for Ashwin in Tests- most for any player since Ashwin’s debut in Nov 2011. AB de Villiers and Sangakkara have 4 each during this period. No Indian has managed more than 1 such award during this period.
In fact, only Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rohit Sharma are the indian players to get MoS awards since Nov 2011, other than Ashwin. Both of them have got 1 award each.
The list of players with at least 2 MoS awards during this period is given below.
| Player | Span | Matches | Man-of-Match | Man-of-Series |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (India) | 2011-2015 | 32 | 4 | 5 |
| AB de Villiers (SA) | 2011-2015 | 36 | 1 | 4 |
| Kumar Sangakkara (SL) | 2011-2015 | 32 | 3 | 4 |
| James Anderson (Eng) | 2012-2015 | 47 | 4 | 3 |
| Michael Clarke (Aus) | 2011-2015 | 43 | 3 | 3 |
| Rangana Herath (SL) | 2011-2015 | 34 | 7 | 3 |
| Younis Khan (Pak) | 2011-2015 | 34 | 4 | 3 |
| Hashim Amla (SA) | 2011-2015 | 37 | 3 | 2 |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI) | 2011-2015 | 29 | 1 | 2 |
| Alastair Cook (Eng) | 2012-2015 | 50 | 2 | 2 |
| Angelo Mathews (SL) | 2011-2015 | 36 | 2 | 2 |
| Joe Root (Eng) | 2012-2015 | 35 | 5 | 2 |
| Saeed Ajmal (Pak) | 2011-2014 | 21 | 1 | 2 |
| David Warner (Aus) | 2011-2015 | 46 | 4 | 2 |
| Yasir Shah (Pak) | 2014-2015 | 12 | 0 | 2 |