Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) and Ricky Ponting (Australia) – 16 times each
Former Sri Lankan wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara and former Australian captain Ricky Ponting are in this position in this list as both won 16 Man of the Match awards each in the Test careers. While Sangakkara played 134 Tests between 2000 and 2015, Ponting featured in 168 Test matches from 1995 to 2012.
While Sangakkara scored 12400 Test runs (average 57.40), including 38 hundred and 52 fifties, Ponting scored 13378 runs (average 51.85) along with 41 times 100s and 62 times 50s.