The safest pair of hands during next week's Cup Match classic at Wellington Oval will pocket $1,000 in cash, two round trip tickets to a gateway city of choice and an assortment of various other prizes.

Sponsored by Butterfield Bank, the coveted Safe Hands Award is now in its 12th year of existence and is awarded to the player who is chosen by a body of judges as the most outstanding fielder over the course of the two-day event.

This year's eventual winner will also receive the Cal (Bummy) Symonds Cup and playing kit provided by the former St.George's Cup Match skipper's family.

Symonds captained St.George's to nine Cup Match victories between 1960 and 1969 which remains a record to this day.

He also shares the record for the most catches (24) in the annual mid-summer classic along with veteran St.George's batsman Charlie Marshall having amassed the feat between 1950 and 1969.

Colt Fiqre Crockwell became only the fourth St. George's player to win the coveted award during last year's tame draw at Somerset Cricket Club.

Janeiro Tucker, one of seven Somerset players to win the award, is the only cricketer to have won the award multiple times since its inception in 1997.