Stats: Test debutants winning the Man of the Match award

South Africa’s Dane Piedt took a wicket off his first ball in Test cricket

South Africa: (6)

Player	Batting	Bowling	Fielding	For	Against	Venue	Date
Andrew Hudson	163 & 0	DNB	1	South Africa	West Indies	Bridgetown	18-Apr-92
Jacques Rudolph	222*	DNB	1	South Africa	Bangladesh	Chittagong	24-Apr-03
Vernon Philander	4 & DNB	3/63 & 5/15	-	South Africa	Australia	Cape Town	09-Nov-11
Faf du Plessis	78 & 110*	0/34 & 0/8	-	South Africa	Australia	Adelaide	22-Nov-12
Kyle Abbott	13	7/29 & 2/39	-	South Africa	Pakistan	Centurion	22-Feb-13
Dane Piedt	13 & DNB	4/90 & 4/62	2	South Africa	Zimbabwe	Harare	09-Aug-14

Andrew Hudson scored 163 in South Africa’s first match after readmission in 1992.

Faf du Plessis is one of seven players to score a century in the 4th innings in debut match.

Dane Piedt took a wicket off his first ball in Test cricket.

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Sri Lanka: (0)

No Sri Lankan player has got the Man of the Match award on Test debut.

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West Indies: (2)

Player	Batting	Bowling	Fielding	For	Against	Venue	Date
Patrick Patterson	0* & DNB	4/30 & 3/44	1	West Indies	England	Jamaica	21-Feb-86
Franklyn Rose	14* & DNB	6/100 & 1/23	-	West Indies	India	Jamaica	06-Mar-97

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Zimbabwe: (1)

Player	Batting	Bowling	Fielding	For	Against	Venue	Date
Hamilton Masakadza	9 & 119	0/3	-	Zimbabwe	West Indies	Harare	27-Jul-01

Hamilton Masakadza was the youngest Test centurion when he scored 119 on his debut. Only about one month later the record was clinched by Mohammad Ashraful.

Notes:

# Out of 39 players, nine accomplished this feat against West Indies, five of those in this decade.

# Jamaica and Lord's are the two venues where three players got Man of the Match on debut.