Awards Night

[kears_falcon_9]

Karachi has held their team awards night. Here is the results of the night:

Karachi Best & Fairest Awards Night:

Most Runs: One Day - M. Manhus (559 Runs at 62.11) Four Day - J. Cooke (707 Runs at 47.13)
Most Wickets: One Day - J. Louw (21 Wickets at 14.95) Four Day - M. Sami (58 Wickets at 21.24)
Best Bowler: M. Sami (0 One Day and 58 Four Day Wickets)
Best Batsman: P. Sardesai (707 at 47.13 Runs Four Day and 268 at 53.60 Runs One Day)
Best Bowling Performance: One Day - J. Louw 4-31 Four Day - M. Sami 7-92
Best Batting Performance: One Day - M. Manhus 171 Four Day - P. Dharmani 132
One Day Player Of The Year: J. Louw (69 Runs at 69.00 - 21 Wickets at 14.95 and 1 Catch)
Four Day Player Of The Year: R. Silva (494 Runs at 41.17 and 24 Wickets at 23.96 and 9 Catches)
Karachi B&F: M. Manhus (1144 Runs from both forms, 10 Catches)
Coaches Award: W. Kaye
Most Ducks: 4 Day - M. Sami (4) and A. Mishra (4) and B. Matthie (4) One Day - C. Elstub (2) and A. Mishra (2)
Slowman Of The Year: 4 Day - B. Matthie (52 Runs at 34.67) One Day - C. Elstub (0 Runs at 0.0) (Slowest Strike Rate)
Economist Of The Year: 4 Day - A. Mishra (267 Overs At 3.24) One Day - C. Elstub (86 Overs At 4.50) (Best Econ Rate)
S. Pollock Award: A. Mishra - Has been a great captain, wants to return home so has been given chance to do so. Great Team Man!
Most 50's/100's: 4 Day - J. Cooke (7 50's, 0 100's) 1 Day - M. Dhoni (5 50's, 0 100's)
Career Milestones: 4 Day - 1000 Runs (P. Sardesai, P. Dharmani), 50 Catches (P. Dharmani), 150 Wickets (M. Sami)
Career Milestones: 1 Day - 500 Runs (M. Dhoni, M. Manhus), 5 50's (M. Dhoni)
Wicket Keeper Of The Year: 4 Day - P. Dharmani (41 Catches 6 Stumpings 677 Runs) 1 Day - M. Dhoni (8 Catches 2 Stumpings 505 Runs)
Fielder Of The Year: J. Cooke (11 Four Day and 4 One Day Catches)
Emerging Talent: W. Kaye
Manager Of The Year: David Kearsley Aka Kears_Falcon_9

Hopefully some boys will poll highly in the up and coming Best Players for WCC.

 

[ash chaulk]

looks like a juniors side where everyone gets an award

 

[kears_falcon_9]

more off we have an extremely even team and no one stood out so everyone has to share the awards

 

[Mister Wright]

The Guyana Cricket Board refused to hold an awards night for their players after manager Kyle Wright deemed their players not worthy of one.

 

[andyc]

The Guyana Cricket Board refused to hold an awards night for their players after manager Kyle Wright deemed their players not worthy of one.

Aww come on mate. Even I'm gonna have one.

 

[Mister Wright]

Aww come on mate. Even I'm gonna have one.

There is no way the players deserve one, they have underperformed so poorly this season, there is no way they should be rewarded for that.

 

[Simon]

There is no way the players deserve one, they have underperformed so poorly this season, there is no way they should be rewarded for that.

they can share the "worst player award"

 

[Mister Wright]

they can share the "worst player award"

Otherwise known as 'Traded'.

 

[Slats4ever]

Western Province Celebrate Stellar Year

In their most successful year yet, after gaining their 3rd straight 4 day promotion and winning the division 5 OD title Western Province once again held their annual season celebrations at Pizza Hut. After hiring out the drink bar, desert bar and pizza and pasta bar the players let their hair down for some dancing.

The awards part of the night was once again the highlight however with the following players receiving recognition.

OD bowler of the year: E Tate (14 wickets at 13)
OD Batsman of the year: J Schofield (351 runs at 50)
4D bowler of the year: N Kumble (52 wickets at 29)
4D batsman of the year: F Funston (954 runs at 53)
Rookie of the year: E Tate
Western Province Club Medal: J Schofield
OD player of the year: Z Birch (513 runs at 57)
4D player of the Year: E Tate (49 wickets at 19)

After a special guest appearance by the Wiggles and Hi 5 the players were all excited waiting for more.

As special guest Jeff (from the Wiggles) stepped up to present the WP player of the year the hall went into a hush.

E Tate...

HOOOORAY...

bring on division one four day...

 

[James90]

Glamorgan's Everyone Gets A Trophy Night

Best 1D Batsman: M van Jaarsveld - 329 runs @ 32.90
Best 1D Bowler: S Gill - 12 wickets @ 26.25
Best 4D Batsman: A Strauss - 813 runs @ 53.67
Best 4D Bowler: I Fazil - 35 wickets @ 25.97
Player of the Season: Y Cole
Young Gun of the Season: H Head
Most Unfairly Drafted: T Bucknall & W Dial
The "Too good for this sorry joint" award: U Gordon
The "Useless Old Fart" award: D Wickramasinghe
The "Consistant performer but no-one notices because I'm black" award: U Chandana
The "I'm no longer an all-rounder but apparently once was" award: A Agarkar
The "Overrated guy with a turban who is really a liabilitity" award: H Singh
The "Arrived at training drunk on a regular basis" award: I Jeffrey
The "I've Seen Better Batting the Shower" award: C Soysa
The "Was never selected but we still love you" award: M Hasnain

 

[NZTailender]

Yorkshire's 4d batsman of the season: W Tendulkar. Old hand despite being young and our leading run scorer. Looked in trouble about halfwya through the season but lifted with excellent performances at the end but couldn't save us from relegtion. S Weir was probably the most consistent but never went on to make a big score. A Habib is worth a mention.

1d Bat: P Boxall. Daylight second, then the rest.

Bowler 4d: Tough call between Nazir and Ballard. Ballard was underused by Yorkshire's manager and injury had him out for 6 weeks. Nazir was the most consistent despite only taking 1 5fer. Ballard clinches this in taking the same (or there abouts) amount of wickets but in a lesser period of time.
Simpson took a lot of wickets and so did Gough.

1d Bowl: G Hamilton in his last season.

All rounder: S Weir by a mile.

Players who I hoped would do something but now I wouldn't trust with taking out my garbage: J Laney, C Hemp, P Wilcox, Z Kapil Dev.


Player of the season: W Tendulkar.


Yorkshire would also like to bid a fond farewell to H Simpson and G Hamilton.



I'd type more but can't be bothered...

 

[thierry henry]

Worcestershire had a mediocre season, but some outstanding individual performances. We usually pride ourselves on committed team efforts, so hopefully we won't have to have 3 or 4 individuals carrying us next season....

OD Batsman of the season goes to A Louden who scored 532 runs at 53.2. A remarkable model of consistency considering he was never not out, and his high score was only 93. Terrific effort.

OD Bowler of the season goes to P Sudesh who took 19 wickets at 21.68. An excellent effort although he did go at 5 an over.

General comments about OD- The stats actually make quite good reading. What they do not show, however, is the strike-rates of the batsman. Too many times this season we plodded our way to scores along the lines of 220 for 4 off 50 overs, etc. Hence, while the averages look ok, they do not tell the full story. A Ahmed, who averaged over 50, was the only bowler to concede less than 5 RPO for the season.

Overall OD player of the season is A Louden.





4D Batsman of the season is A Lovell. He had an outstanding season, 809 runs @ 53.93 making him arguably the batsman of the season in Division 3. Indeed, his form actually fell away towards the end of the season, he looked set to crack 1000 runs at one point, after a high score of 234.

4D Bowler of the season is equally straightforward, I Cook taking out the award. His 49 wickets at 18.92 was a marvellous return, putting him among the best bowlers in the division. Had six 5-wicket bags.

Overall 4D Player of the season caused a lot of consternation, but eventually went to A Lovell. He and Cook were pretty much neck and neck though. Lovell got the nod because the batting was always expected to struggled in season 6, and his contribution was above and beyond what was expected.

General comments about 4D- apart from these two it was a disappointing season. Only 4 batsman averaged above 30, and all of the main bowlers averaged in the low 30s. Lovell and Cook carried the team.

I Cook would also take out the overall bowler of the year award

Overall batsman of the year is U Lowe. I wasn't sure whether there was any point in having these overall awards, as the best performers tended to be specialists, so the OD and 4D awards seemed better kept separate. Nevertheless, Lowe gets the nod as one of only two batsman (the other being all-rounder A Hall) to make a meaningful contribution in both forms. He averaged 49 in OD and 33 in 4D. In the end, this got him the nod ahead of A Lovell, who averaged only 18 in OD, and Louden, who didn't play in 4D.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
This was very difficult to judge, because few players made an impact in both forms.

In the end the winner was something of a surprise- A Hall, the captain.

Manager Thierry Henry had this to say-

"I think when people look back on the season, they will rememer the batting of Lovell, Lowe and Louden, and the bowling of Cook and Sudesh. They were the outstanding features of the season. However, for me, there was one player who kept on performing for all 20 weeks (well, 19 actually), and that was Hall. He had a lot of responsibility as the captain and senior all-rounder, and he just kept on putting in".

Hall finished the season with an OD batting average of 38.8 and a bowling average of 30.86. In 4D his batting average was 35.64 and his bowling average was 33.