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All 11 players of this team once bagged the ‘Man of the Match’ award and created history in the Cricket fraternity

Speed News Desk 3 April 2018, 16:50 IST

All 11 players of this team once bagged the ‘Man of the Match’ award and created history in the Cricket fraternity

Have you ever seen that a team whose all 11 players received the ‘Man of the Match’ award? Hopefully not, but today we are going to reveal you a name of the team whose all players once received a man of the match award on 3 April 1996. Yes, the name of the team is ‘New Zealand’, whose team players to get the title.

The entire team of New Zealand received the honour for their collective efforts against West Indies at Georgetown in a thrilling 4-run win.

As there is always a battle between the bowlers and the batsman and the result in a cricket match is decided after the contest between the players.

Well, Man-of-the-Match award in cricket is only given to those players who played best in their roles in his team and become the performer of the day.

As we all know that the title is mostly given to the winning team players but there have been many instances come to light when the losing team players also received the award.

However, there were only a few instances in the cricket’s history when such incident occurs that made us a shock. In fact, it has happened only thrice in international cricket's 142-year long history. The once in Tests match and other two in ODI’s

 

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