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Player of the Match Awards: Strange Version

SillyCowCorner1

SillyCowCorner1

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Recently was looking up stats of a certain West Indian fast bowler from the early 2000s and stumbled upon this gem:


1st Match, Coca-Cola Cup (Zimbabwe) at Harare, Jun 23 2001 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

Cameron Cuffy was the bowler I had in mind, but I didn't knew he was awarded player of the match for not taking any wickets. His miserly spell of 10-2-20-0 did.


I don't know if there are any other instances of something like this occurring.

Not those awards for biggest six, karbon kamal catch garbage...Genuine player of the match.
 
Burgey

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Mark Taylor got MOTM in an ODI vs the Windies in 92-93 for taking three speccies in a very low scoring game.
 
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A near miss: in the Eng-WI ODI at Lord's in 1988, the MotM was DeFreitas with 11-5-20-1 and a catch (Greenidge). Walsh had figures of 11-5-11-0 in the same game.

Alan Knott was MotM in the semi-final and final of the 1974 Gillette Cup, but he did score some useful runs in both games.

Cuffy's achievement of MotM without a wicket, catch or run is on his Wiki page, so it may be unique. (When Abrahams was MotM in the B&H Cup Final in 1984 despite being out for a duck and not bowling, he did take a catch).
 
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