Diwali 2024: This player won the 'Player of the Match' award without batting or bowling, know the name

Cricket News Desk. In the game of cricket, you must have often seen players getting the Player of the Match award for good batting and excellent bowling, but do you know that there are some selected players who were given the Player of the Match award for their fielding. . If you don't know, then today we will tell you about the first player in the world who was given the Player of the Match award not for his batting or bowling but for his fielding.

The name of this West Indies cricketer is Gus Logie. Logie is the first player in the world to be given the Player of the Match award for his excellent fielding. Interestingly, Logie neither bowled nor batted in the match against Pakistan but he performed so well in fielding that he was given this award.

Actually, this incident happened 37 years ago i.e. in 1986, when the Champions Trophy ODI match was played between Pakistan and West Indies on 28 August 1986. In that match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat but the Pakistani batsmen had no success against the West Indies bowlers and the entire team was all out after scoring 143 runs in the 44th over. After this, West Indies, chasing a modest target, achieved an easy victory in the 34th over.

Courtney Walsh took four wickets for West Indies in that match. Gordon Greenidge played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs and Desmond Haynes played an unbeaten inning of 59 runs, so everyone was wondering which of these three would be named player of the match, but when Gus Logie was awarded the award, So who was it among these three? It?s all just watching. Shesh Logie may not have contributed with bat and ball in this match but with his fielding he took 3 brilliant catches and got 2 run outs. Logie had stolen all the limelight with his fielding in that match, how can anyone snatch the title of Player of the Match from him. After Logie, there were many other selected players who were given the Player of the Match award for their fielding but it was Logie who started it.