Cricket World Cup History: 5 players with the most Man of the Match awards in World Cups

#1 Sachin Tendulkar (India) - 9 times

Sachin Tendulkar played his last World Cup in the year 2011.

Widely regarded as the 'God of cricket', Sachin Tendulkar completely changed the viewers' perspective towards cricket with his magnificent batting skills. After providing the best of his services to cricket and his home country, Sachin ended his World Cup career on a winning note in the year 2011.

Making his World Cup debut in 1992, Tendulkar was right on the money in that edition, notching up a half-century against Pakistan that earned him a MoM award. He continued his form into the next game and clinched his second MoM award against Zimbabwe, with a 77-ball 81.

In the 1996 World Cup at home, Tendulkar picked up two MoM awards but in the 1999 World Cup, finished with just the one award courtesy of his 140-run knock against Kenya.

His best World Cup performance came during the 2003 World Cup when he finished with a total of 673 runs from 11 matches, including two fifties and one hundred - a 152 against Namibia - as Tendulkar picked up three MoM awards from that edition.

With India crashing out of the competition in 2007, Tendulkar did not have a lot of batting time but in what was his last ever World Cup, the ace batsman amassed 482 runs from nine matches, including a match-winning 85 against Pakistan in the semi-final that was his record ninth MoM award in World Cups.