SS Iyer of India was awarded the Man of the Match for his batting performance in the just concluded test against New Zealand at Kanpur to provide the 51^st occasion of a cricketer getting a Man of the Match on test debut ever since the concept of Man of the Match Awards are instituted in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Team	Year	No	Player	Team	Year
1	KC Wessels	Aus	1982	26	JJ Krejza	Aus	2008
2	BP Patterson	Win	1986	27	Fawad Alam	Pak	2009
3	PL Taylor	Aus	1987	28	R Ashwin	Ind	2011
4	PJ Newport	Eng	1988	29	PJ Cummins	Ays	2011
5	PK Amre	Ind	1992	30	Elias Sunny	Ban	2011
6	AC Hudson	SAF	1992	31	JL Pattinson	Aus	2011
7	GP Thorpe	Eng	1993	32	VD Philander	SAF	2011
8	SP Fleming	NZl	1994	33	F du Plessis	SAF	2012
9	DG Cork	Eng	1995	34	KJ Abbott	SAF	2013
10	Mohd Zahid	Pak	1996	35	S Dhawan	Ind	2013
11	Azhar Mahmood	Pak	1997	36	RG Sharma	Ind	2013
12	FA Rose	Win	1997	37	MD Craig	NZl	2014
13	MS Sinclair	NZl	1999	38	DL Piedt	SAF	2014
14	Javed Omar	Ban	2001	39	Mustafizur Rahman	Ban	2015
15	H Masakadza	Zim	2001	40	AC Voges	Aus	2015
16	Mohd Ashraful	Ban	2001	41	C de Grandhomme	NZl	2016
17	Mohd Sami	Pak	2001	42	BT Foakes	Eng	2018
18	RL Johnson	Eng	2003	43	L Ngidi	SAF	2018
19	RJ Kirtley	Eng	2003	44	KJ O’Brien	Ire	2018
20	JA Rudolph	SAD	2003	45	AY Patel	NZl	2018
21	Yasir Hameed	Pak	2003	46	PP Shaw	Ind	2018
22	MJ Clarke	Aus	2004	47	Abid Ali	Pak	2019
23	AJ Strauss	Eng	2004	48	KR Mayers	Win	2021
24	SR Clark	Aus	2006	49	DP Conway	NZl	2021
25	RP Singh	Ind	2006	50	P Jayawickrama	Srl	2021
				51	SS Iyer	Ind	2021

SS Iyer of India was awarded the Man of the Match for his batting performance in the just concluded test against New Zealand at Kanpur to provide the seventh occasion of an Indian cricketer getting a Man of the Match on test debut ever since the concept of Man of the Match Awards are instituted in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Team	Year
1	PK Amre	Ind	1992
2	RP Singh	Ind	2006
3	R Ashwin	Ind	2011
4	S Dhawan	Ind	2013
5	RG Sharma	Ind	2013
6	PP Shaw	Ind	2018
7	SS Iyer	Ind	2021