MOM despite an innings defeat
As far as I know...
This is only the fourth instance of a players winning the man of the match award despite an innings defeat, three of whom are Bangaldeshis.
The MOM awards were started only in the mid 70s and became popular only from the 80s. The first person to get close to that feat was Mohinder Amarnath at Bridgetown in 1982-83. He scored 91 & 80 to win MOM but India managed to avoid innings defeat by 1 run (and lost by 10 wickets). In the second innings, he had to retire after getting hit on the mouth by Marshall. The first ball he faced after coming back was a bouncer from Holding which he hooked for six.
Greame Hick became the first 10 years later. At Bombay 1992-3, he scored 178 & 47 and took two wickets to beat Vinod Kambli's 224. India won by an innings and 15
Javed Omar scored 62 and 85* on his debut against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2000/1 to become the second person. The latter innings is one of the three instances of a player carrying his bat on debut and the only one for BD of a someone scoring 50% of the team's total. Zim won by an innings and 32 runs
Ashraful on his debut scored 26 & 114 out of Bangladesh's 90 and 328. BD lost the match by an innings and 137 runs but he shared the man of the match with Murali.
Chittagong test makes it the second instance for Ash.
Winning the MOM despite team's defeat is not that common. Tendulkar and Steve Waugh have won 3 MOM's in defeat. Nobody has won more that 3.
To repeat, everything 'AFAIK'.
Edited on, December 20, 2004, 9:46 AM GMT, by Tintin.
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