5 Cricketers who won the Player of the Match award for fielding

3. Jonty Rhodes – 5 catches and 40 runs, vs West Indies, ODI, 1993

Prior to this catching masterclass, Jonty Rhodes had already received a massive adulation for his fielding causes especially when in the 1992 World Cup he had run out Inzamam-ul-Haq with his extravagant horizontal dive. Hence his comprehensive fielding acrobats had obtained him a tag of someone who could fly on the field.

While before showcasing his fielding prowess on that day, Jonty had played a vital knock of 40 runs which distinctly had helped South Africa to post a target of 181 runs. Hence, with him getting brimmed with confidence, his first catch of Brian Lara was marvellous diving caught which had made him sprint from a backward point to dismiss the legend.

His next grab which was also a stunner of Phil Simmons was again a dive to pluck it one-handed. Further, Jonty then took the catches of Jimmy Adams and Anderson Cummins wherein yet again he once had to fly to catch a slashed cut towards the third man.

His final pluck was the wicket of Desmond Haynes who had got retired hurt earlier in the innings. Overall, at Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium, it was Jonty Rhodes’s soaring show (both with the bat or at the field) that had dismantled the West Indies despite their valiant bowling effort.