Stats: Shared Man of the Match awards - An occasion when all 11 players were jointly named MoM

When South Africa’s all 11 players got the Man of the Match award, it showed cricket is a team game indeed

Probably we have seen or heard many times that two players from the same side share the Man of the Match award in a test match, or sometimes even from two opposite sides. But there was one occasion when all 11 players from a single side had got the Man of the Match award.

Man of the Match awards are given to the player who has contributed the most to his team’s victory in that match or has contributed to the match in a manner which cannot be ignored. But it is a rare instance indeed when all 11 players from one side contributed to team’s victory equally.

This has been the only test match in history till date when all players from a side have shared the Man of the Match award.

Test Match Number: 1441

Match: South Africa vs West Indies (5th Test)

Season: 1998/99

Venue: Centurion Park

This test match was won by South Africa by 351 runs and their 11 players shared the Man of the Match award for their equal contribution in winning. Here is a table that shows brief scores of all four innings of that test match.

Match Innings	Team	Runs
1st	South Africa	313
2nd	West Indies	144
3rd	South Africa	399/5
4th	West Indies	217

Here is a table that shows contribution of all 11 players of South Africa, due to which they got the Man of the Match award.

Player Name	Contribution in a test match for which got the Man of the Match award
Gary Kirsten	134 runs scored in a match
Herschelle Gibbs	53 runs scored in a match
Jacques Kallis	110 runs scored, 3 wickets and catches taken in a match
Daryll Cullinan	13 runs scored and 1 wicket taken in a match
Hansie Cronje	83 runs scored and catches taken in a match
Jonty Rhodes	127 runs scored and catches taken in a match
Shaun Pollock	16 runs scored and 3 wickets taken in a match
Mark Boucher	100 runs scored and 2 catches taken as a wicket-keeper in a match
Lance Klusener	12 runs scored and 3 wickets taken in a match
Allan Donald	12 runs scored, 6 wickets and 1 catch taken in a match
Paul Admas	7 runs scored, 4 wickets and 1 catch taken in a match

So far, there have been 14 instances when two players from the same team were given the Man of the Match award in a Test match.

MoM-1	MoM-2	Country	Against	Venue	Year	Winner
Dilip Vengsarkar	Maninder Singh	India	Sri Lanka	Nagpur	1986	India
Richard Hadlee	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand	West Indies	Christchurch	1987	New Zealand
Ian Smith	Andrew Jones	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	Hamilton	1991	Drawn
Ken Rutherford	Danny Morrison	New Zealand	Australia	Auckland	1993	New Zealand
Shane Thomson	Bryan Young	New Zealand	Pakistan	Christchurch	1994	New Zealand
Andy Flower	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe	Pakistan	Harare	1995	Zimbabwe
Jack Russell	Mike Atherton	England	South Africa	New Wanders	1995	Drawn
Steve Waugh	Greg Blewett	Australia	South Africa	New Wanders	1997	Australia
Shaun Pollock	Mark Boucher	South Africa	Zimbabwe	Harare	1999	South Africa
Jacques Kallis	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa	Zimbabwe	Bloemfontein	2000	South Africa
Justin Langer	Matthew Hayden	Australia	South Africa	Sydney	2002	Australia
Makhaya Ntini	Greme Smith	South Africa	England	Lord’s	2003	South Africa
Taufeeq Umar	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan	South Africa	Lahore	2003	Pakistan
Dale Styen	Morne Morkel	South Africa	England	New Wanders	2010	South Africa

There have been 26 instances in Test cricket so far when two players from opposite sides were given the Man of the Match award.

MoM – 1	MoM – 2	Match	Venue	Year	Result
Wasim Raja (Pak)	Collin Craft (WI)	Pakistan vs West Indies	Queen’s Park Oval	1977	West Indies
Geoff Howarth (NZ)	Sandeep Patil (Ind)	New Zealand vs India	Wellington	1981	New Zealand
John Wright (NZ)	Ravi Shashtri (Ind)	New Zealand vs India	Eden Park	1981	Drawn
Ian Botham (Eng)	Gordon Greenidge (WI)	England vs West Indies	Lord’s	1984	West Indies
Viv Richards (WI)	Ewen Chatfield (NZ)	West Indies vs New Zealand	Port of Spain	1985	Drawn
Kapil Dev (Ind)	Dean Jones (Aus)	India vs Australia	Chepauk	1986	Tied
Imran Khan (Pak)	Kris Srikkanth (Ind)	Pakistan vs India	Chepauk	1987	Drawn
Phil Newport (Eng)	Ravi Ratnayake (SL)	England vs Sri Lanka	Lord’s	1988	England
Allan Border (Aus)	Ijaz Ahmed (Pak)	Australia vs Pakistan	Faisalabad	1988	Drawn
Gus Logie (WI)	David Boon (Aus)	West Indies vs Australia	Sabina Park	1991	Drawn
Alec Stewart (Eng)	Ravi Ratnayake (SL)	England vs Sri Lanka	Lord’s	1991	England
Curtly Ambrose (WI)	Andrew Hudson (SA)	West Indies vs South Africa	Kensington Oval	1992	West Indies
Alec Stewert (Eng)	Nathan Astle (NZ)	England vs New Zealand	Auckland	1997	Drawn
Shiv Chanderpaul (WI)	Rahul Dravid (Ind)	West Indies vs India	Bourda	1997	Drawn
Pat Symcox (SA)	Azhar Mahmood (Pak)	South Africa vs Pakistan	New Wanderers	1998	Drawn
Saeed Anwar (Pak)	Javagal Srinath (Ind)	Pakistan vs India	Eden Gardens	1999	Pakistan
Aravinda de Silva (SL)	Ricky Ponting (Aus)	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Kandy	1999	Sri Lanka
Andy Flower (Zim)	Russell Arnold (SL)	Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka	Harare	1999	Drawn
Andy Caddick (Eng)	Gary Kirsten (SA)	England vs South Africa	Kingsmead	1999	Drawn
Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)	Lance Klusener (SA)	Sri Lanka vs South Africa	Kandy	2000	South Africa
Matthew Hayden (Aus)	Harbhajan Singh (Ind)	Australia vs India	Chepauk	2001	India
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)	Mohammad Ashraful (Ban)	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	SSC	2001	Sri Lanka
Brian Lara (WI)	Chaminda Vaas (SL)	West Indies vs Sri Lanka	SSC	2001	Sri Lanka
Gary Kirsten (SA)	Taufeeq Umar (Pak)	South Africa vs Pakistan	Faisalabad	2003	Drawn
Nuwan Kulasekara (SL)	Fawad Alam (Pak)	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	P Sara Oval	2009	Sri Lanka
Salman Butt (Pak)	Simon Katich (Aus)	Pakistan vs Australia	Lord’s	2010	Australia