No team glory but Horouta made their mark

WICKET-TAKER Horouta player Tushar Balat, pictured in front of umpire Jason Trowill, won two bowling awards from the Poverty Bay club cricket prizegiving on Saturday. He took 19 wickets in the 2019-20 season at an average of 12.96. Picture by Liam Clayton

Horouta may not have triumphed in Poverty Bay's club cricket competitions but they did well out of the prize-giving.

Keegan Martin won the Stewart Cup for best all-rounder in the premier grade and, with his 193 runs across the DJ Barry and Doleman Cup competitions, took the Fraser Shield batting prize.

The left-handed batsman who typically came in at No.5 was always a key wicket for the opposition sides and he bowled handy left-arm seam.

Tushar Balat won the Hayes Family Cup for best bowling aggregate, taking 19 wickets, and his bowling average of 12.96 earned him the Chrisp Cup.

The right-arm medium-pacer was often able to get movement in the air or nip off the track.

High School Old Boys won the DJ Barry Cup final against Horouta on Saturday and they defeated OBR in the Doleman Cup 40-over final earlier in the season.

HSOB captain Carl Shaw, who hit an unbeaten ton last month, secured the Poverty Bay Cricket Association Trophy for the best batting average, at 35.25.

HSOB seamer Marshall Norris was judged the most promising player.

Glen Udall, who played mostly for HSOB Presidents — the club's second 11 — in the Hope Cup this season, won the Heikell Cup for senior club player of the year.

He plundered 465 runs, including three hundreds and one fifty, and took nine wickets.

The Rees Scragg Memorial Trophy was awarded to groundsman Rowan Clark for service to the cricket community.

With seven catches behind the stumps, OBR wicketkeeper Josh Adams won the Miller Cup fielding prize.

The Block Hole Trophy for economical bowling went to OBR stalwart Jimmy Holden, whose economy rate was a miserly 2.89 runs an over.

Ngatapa won the B grade's Hope Cup, defeating HSOB Presidents in Saturday's final.

Udall had the best batting aggregate in the Hope Cup, OBR's Ian Loffler was the top all-rounder and Loffler also won the Carrol Cup for the best bowling average (8.24).

OBR opening batsman Thom Berry won the HH Barker award for his outrageous batting average of 279 across four innings in the Hope Cup, which included a highest score of 130 not out.

Campion College's Luke Hurlstone won the Bradley Cup for most-improved player.

In awards for junior men, Paul Stewart was the under-19 player of the year, Liam Spring the best u17 player, Nathan Trowell the top u16 player and Seb Wilson was the most promising Year 9-10 player.