Who decides the man of the match in a cricket match?
The one player in the match who has outperformed everyone else
who played on that given day is declared the man of the match. He
can be from either the winning team or the losing team. Usually the
batsman who scored the most runs or the bowler who got the most
wickets would be an obvious choice for the man of the match
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Typically the commentators for that match would decide who the
man of the match is.
If you observe lot of times it is said that the commentators had
a tough time picking the man of the match, in tight matches, but we
have chosen XXXX as the man of the match.
In a few other cases, the match referee and the umpires also are
in the man of the match voting panel.