Waimate finishes best season ever as No 1 South Canterbury Cricket Club
Posted in Fourth Grade, General News, Second Grade, Senior, Womens Cricket on April 23rd, 2011 by admin –40 years after joining the South Canterbury competition after winding up the local sub association, Waimate have had their best season of results ever.
Waimate won trophies in every men’s grade they entered, and topping it off the seniors won the Tweedy Cup, the premier trophy in South Canterbury club cricket, after earlier winning the SCCA Trophy as top qualifier in the Round Robin and being runner-up in the Daily Freightways One Day competition.
Waimate & Star share Tweedy Cup 2010-11 Season
Waimate also won the Second Grade trophy again with Greg Paul hitting an unbeaten century in the final to beat favourites Celtic, the fourth grade won their trophy for the third year in a row and the JAB won their Two Day competition.
Alan Reid South Canterbury Cricket Bowler of the Year with the Tweedy Cup
Glen Drake celebrates his great season
The success of the Waimate Cricket Club was shown at the SCCA Prizegiving where as well as the team trophies Waimate also featured in the individual awards with Alan Reid winning the Williams Cup for Bowler of the Year with 56 wickets @ 15.45 (including 6-95 off 44 overs in Tweedy Cup Final) and the SCCUA Graeme Lowrie Spirit of Cricket Award for the senior cricketer who epitomises the way the game should be played which is chosen by umpires.
Glen Drake also showed his class by winning the L J Grant Trophy Young Player of the Year and also took out the nights supreme prize, the Graeme Blanchard Memorial Trophy for a youth cricketer who displays an excellent attitude on and off the field for fair play, a team player who inspires the spirit of cricket and has good work ethics.
Read what the Timaru Herald said about Alan and Glen here
Click here to read the story about the Tweedy Cup Final
Click here to read about the SCCA end of year prizegiving
More photos and details about the season will be added soon.
