Mark Gillespie and Liz Perry were named the 2011-12 Men’s and Women’s Cricketers of the Year at last night's end of season Cricket Wellington Norwood Awards held at the Hawkins Basin Reserve.
As well as scooping the top awards, Gillespie and Perry also won two other major awards between them, Gillespie winning the Men’s Outstanding Bowler accolade and Perry also collecting the Outstanding Women’s Batswoman award.
Other noted individual award winners were James Franklin as the Men’s Outstanding Batsman, Lucy Doolan as the Women’s Outstanding Bowler, Jeetan Patel and Andrea Stockwell as the Men’s and Women’s Outstanding Fielders and Luke Woodcock and Doolan as the Men’s and Women’s Best All-rounders.
In age grade awards, Harry Boam was named Cricket Wellington’s most outstanding U23 cricketer for the season, Scott Kuggeleijn won the U20 Men’s award and Deanna Doughty the U20 Women’s award.
Men’s Cricketer of the Year Mark Gillespie is a prime example of a sportsman never giving up, after previous injuries had threatened to prematurely end his career. Gillespie was the Wellington Firebirds’ leading wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield, his compelling form earning him a recall to the BLACKCAPS for the final two Tests against South Africa. Here he excelled, taking career best international figures of 6 for 113 on his home ground at the Hawkins Basin Reserve and becoming the second New Zealander to take three 5-wicket bags in his first five Tests.
His unorthodox batting also hit the headlines, his ‘no-look six’ turning heads and his scoring of the required runs in the Basin Test averting the follow-on and subsequently saving the Test.
In six Plunket Shield matches for the Firebirds this season, Mark Gillespie took 30 wickets at an average of 27.53, including career best figures of 6 for 41. He also captured his first 10-wicket haul for the Firebirds. In taking nine wickets in the Ford Trophy domestic One-Day competition, he became the first Wellington player to take 100 domestic One-Day wickets.
Gillespie is a past winner having won the Men’s Cricketer of the Year award in 2005-6.
Women’s Cricketer of the Year Perry cemented her place in the White Ferns side by playing in every game of the international summer against England and Australia. She scored 149 runs in all matches and took the most catches by an outfielder including a brilliant catch in Australia that was replayed by Channel 9 in their Classic Catches segment.
For the Wellington Blaze, Perry scored 263runs, including her maiden 50-over century, 101, against eventual Action Cricket Women’s One-Day winners Canterbury. In the 50-over competition she averaged 47.00.
Men’s Outstanding Batsman James Franklin scored 1,037 for the Wellington Firebirds across all three formats of the game. He scored 270 in the HRV Cup Twenty20 competition, 231 in the Ford Trophy and 536 in the Plunket Shield. In addition he scored 179 runs for the BLACKCAPS.
Women’s outstanding bowler Lucy Doolan took 21 wickets for the Wellington Blaze and the White Ferns. For the Blaze she regularly opened the bowling, her off-spin bowling yielding 14 wickets
Women’s Outstanding Fielder and Blaze wicket-keeper Andrea Stockwell effected 15 dismissals, including a notable performance against the Northern Spirit in which she took three catches and took two stumpings in one innings.
In another highlight from the Norwood Awards, recently retired Wellington Blaze captain Megan Wakefield was awarded a specially signed Wellington Blaze jersey in recognition of her career for Wellington. In 11 seasons for the Blaze, Wakefield played 91 domestic women’s One-Day matches, scoring a Wellington provincial women’s record 2,124 runs and, and played 29 domestic Twenty20 matches, scoring 562 runs. She appeared in several women’s domestic finals and helped them win the Twenty20 final against the Canterbury Magicians at the Hawkins Basin Reserve three seasons ago.
Johnsonville’s Barry Rhodes won the Wellington club cricket Bruce Murray Medal, which recognises fair play in the Wilkinson Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy grades, as judged on a points system awarded by opposing captains throughout the season. Naenae Old Boys bowler Adam Williams won the Wilkinson’s Pearce Cup Men’s Club Cricketer of the Year accolade for taking 61 wickets at an average of 10.70. For the second year, a special Wilkinson Pearce Cup Team of the Season was announced at the awards.
A full list of Cricket Wellington’s 2011-12 award winners is below
Norwood Award winners:
Men’s Cricketer of the Year: Mark Gillespie
Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Liz Perry
Men’s Outstanding Batsman: James Franklin
Men’s Outstanding Bowler: Mark Gillespie
Men’s Best All-rounder: Luke Woodcock
Men’s Outstanding Fielder: Jeetan Patel
Women’s Outstanding Batswoman: Liz Perry
Women’s Outstanding Bowler: Lucy Doolan
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Women’s Outstanding Fielder: Andrea Stockwell
Umpire of the Year: Kathy Cross
Awarded to the Umpire who received the highest marks throughout the season in club fixtures.
Best and Most Enterprising Captain:
Scott Mudgway (Johnsonville)
Voted by the umpires who rank captains across the course of the season.
Kilbirnie Sports Young Cricketer of the Year Award winners:
Recognising Wellington’s Most Valuable Players at National Age Group Tournaments. Age group qualifications is as at 1 September 2011.
Under 16 Boys: Ben Skilton
Under 18 Boys: Henry Walsh
Secondary Schools Girls: Rebecca Burns
Women’s U21Tournament MVP: Deanna Doughty
Dempster Shield Competition MVP: Mark Houghton
Provincial A National Tournament MVP: Scott Kuggeleijn
Outstanding Girls U20 Player of the Year: Deanna Doughty
Eddie Cameron Cup
(presented to the best under-age cricketer U20):Scott Kuggeleijn
Sir Walter Nash Trophy (the most outstanding male cricketer U23): Harry Boam
Club and Individual Awards
Bruce Murray Medal winner: Barry Rhodes (Johnsonville)
Recognises Fair Play in the Premier and Senior grades, with points being awarded by opposing captains throughout the season.
AJ Cook Shield: Upper Hutt (520.18 points)
Awarded to the club with the highest aggregate points in the Hutt Valley. Second place: Petone Riverside: (437.20 points)
Hutt Valley Average Club Championships: Naenae Old Boys (86.45 points per team)
Awarded to the club with the highest average points per team in the Hutt Valley. To be eligible for this award, clubs must have a minimum of five teams. Second place: Upper Hutt (74.31 points)
Royal Visit Cup: Eastern Suburbs (1299.37 points)
Awarded to the Wellington club with the highest aggregate points. Second place: Wellington Collegians (840.74 points).
Norwood Championship: Wellington Collegians (75.61 points per team)
Awarded to the Wellington club with the highest average number of points per team. To be eligible for this award, clubs must have a minimum of five teams.
Best Lower Grade Performance: Joint winners: Chris Gazley and Kyle Hitchman
Awarded for the best performance in club cricket in grades from Senior 2 down. In a Wellington 1B game for the Onslow Raging Stags against the Wellington Collegians Chinamen, Gazley scored 249. This broke the Onslow club record for the highest score. He then took 3 for 37 for the Collegians’ second innings. In a Senior 2 game for Naenae Old Boys against Upper Hutt, Hitchman took all 10 wickets in the first innings and then scored 52 not out with the bat.
Marjorie Sweetman Memorial Trophy: Amanda Cooper, Onslow (27 wickets at 10.22)
Awarded to the person taking the most wickets in the senior women’s competition.
Runner up: Allex Evans (Collegians) with 26 wickets.
Judith Sadler Memorial Trophy: Andrea Stockwell, Hutt District (382 runs at 41.33)
Awarded to the person who scores the most runs in the senior women’s competition.
Runner up: Renne Moffit (Onslow) with 360 runs
Betty Maker Memorial Trophy: Lucy Doolan (Hutt District)
Awarded to the best all rounder in women’s cricket. Doolan scored 359 runs and took 21 wickets for the Wellington Blaze and White Ferns this season.
Ron Murray Cup: Adam Williams (Naenae Old Boys) with 61 wickets at an average of 10.70
Awarded to the person taking the most wickets in the Premier men’s grade. Second: Michael Cornish (Naenae Old Boys) with 58 wickets.
Arthur Dick Cup: Chris Spring (Karori) with 694 runs at an average of 43.40
Awarded to the person who scored the most runs in Premier men’s grade. Second: Ben Orton (Eastern Suburbs) with 688 runs
J Atkin Cup: Ronald Karaitiana, Naenae Old Boys (8 for 35 v North City)
Awarded to the best bowling performance in the Premier men’s grade.
May Cup: Michael Papps, Wellington Collegians (198 v North City)
Awarded for the best batting performance in the Premier men’s grade.
Sam Platt Cup: Michael Cornish (Naenae Old Boys)
Awarded for best overall performance in Wellington Club Cricket. In the Wilkinson’s Pearce Cup against Wellington Collegians, Michael took 7 for 45 and 6 for 30, returning match figures of 13 for 75 and helping his side to win inside one day or the scheduled two.
Club Ground of the Year: Kilbirnie Park (Groundsman Scott Bateman)
Awarded to the ground whose pitches have received the highest average marks from captains and umpires reports throughout the season.
Mike Curtis Cup: Dave Gillespie (Taita)
Recognising Volunteer Service to Club Cricket. Dave has played a vital role in attempting to resurrect Taita’s junior club by coordinating 290 students from Avalon Intermediate and St Michael’s School through New Zealand Cricket Have a Go programmes. As well as being a hard working committee member, Dave coaches the club’s second XI and coordinates the pre-season training programme.
Best and Fairest Club Team: Karori’s Wilkinson Hazlett Trophy team
Voted by the umpires in Wilkinson Insurance Brokers Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy Grades.
The Premier and Senior Club Awards
Women’s Club Cricketer of the Year: Allex Evans (Wellington Collegians), 740 points)
One point is awarded for every run, ten points for each wicket and catch. One hundred bonus points are awarded for each century or five wicket bag. Runner up: Michelle Bunkall (Johnsonville) 555 points.
Men’s Club Cricketer of the Year: Barry Rhodes (Johnsonville), 1,207 points. Barry is also the Wilkinson Hazlett Trophy Player of the Year. Hazlett Trophy Runner-up: Kelvin Snell (Petone-Riverside) 1,129 points
One point is awarded for every run, ten points for each wicket and catch. One hundred bonus points are awarded for each century or five wicket bag.
Wilkinson Pearce Cup Cricketer of the Year: Adam Williams (Naenae Old Boys), 1,261 points. Runner-up: Julian Brown (Wellington Collegians) 1,165 points
One point is awarded for every run, ten points for each wicket and catch. One hundred bonus points are awarded for each century or five wicket bag.
Wilkinson Hazlett Trophy: Petone-Riverside.
Petone-Riverside also won the Hazlett One-Day Trophy and Hutt District won the Hazlett Twenty20 competition.
Wilkinson Pearce Cup: Eastern Suburbs
Eastern Suburbs also won the Pearce Cup One-Day Trophy and Karori won the Pearce Cup Twenty20 competition.