{"id":8327,"date":"2024-05-03T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=436490"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:56:45","slug":"check-list-player-of-the-tournament-in-every-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/check-list-player-of-the-tournament-in-every-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Check List: Player of the Tournament in every T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"input-sentence~0\">Here is the list of \u2018Player of the Tournament\u2019 in every edition of the T20 World Cup ahead of the 2024 tournament in the USA & West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth edition of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024 is set to entertain cricket fans from around the world as it will be held for the first time in the USA.<\/span><span id=\"input-sentence~1\"> The tournament will start on June 2 with the opener game between USA and Canada in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>In the inaugural 2007 season, Pakistan\u2019s legendary all-rounder Shahid Afridi was awarded the \u2018Player of the Tournament\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2009 edition, Pakistan won the tournament, but Sri Lankan batter Tillakaratne Dilshan clinched the award.<\/span><span id=\"input-sentence~2\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the award went to a player from the winning squad for the first time as England\u2019s Kevin Pietersen claimed it.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Virat Kohli is the only player who has won the \u2018Player of the Tournament\u2019 award twice, in consecutive years 2014 and 2016.<\/span><span id=\"input-sentence~3\"><\/p>\n<p>In the previous 2022 edition, England\u2019s Sam Curran was awarded the \u2018Player of the Tournament\u2019 trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Year \u2013 Player<br \/>\n2007 \u2013 Shahid Afridi<br \/>\n2009 \u2013 Tillakaratne Dilshan<br \/>\n2010 \u2013 Kevin Pietersen<br \/>\n2012 \u2013 Shane Watson<br \/>\n2014 \u2013 Virat Kohli<br \/>\n2016 \u2013 Virat Kohli<br \/>\n2021 \u2013 David Warner<br \/>\n2022 \u2013 Sam Curran<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the list of \u2018Player of the Tournament\u2019 in every edition of the T20 World Cup ahead of the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3757],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2024"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}