(REUTERS) – Cricket Australia will revert to a panel of experts to decide man-of-the-match awards after Doug Bracewell failed to win a public vote despite bowling New Zealand to victory in the Test match in Hobart.
Bracewell’s six wickets for 40 runs in Australia’s second innings were unarguably decisive in the Black Caps winning their first Test match since 1985 across the Tasman Sea.
The 21-year-old still, however, lost out heavily to Australia opener David Warner, who made an unbeaten 123, in a vote conducted among subscribers of a mobile telephone company which is a major sponsor of Australian cricket.
“We were always running a bit of a trial for these two Tests with those man-of-the-match awards but we will definitely revert to an expert’s choice for that decision about man-of-the-match,” Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland told Melbourne’s Radio 3AW.