Lincolnshire County Cricket, ECB Premier League and LCCC Annual Awards Dinner 2011

Friday 25th February saw the Lincolnshire County Cricket, ECB Premier League and LCCC Annual Awards Dinner. This year, for the first time, we were lucky enough to hold it at the excellent venue, Hemswell Court.

From start to finish the organisation, service and overall presentation delivered by the staff at Hemswell Court was faultless and huge thanks and praise must be awarded to all those involved in making our evening such a success.

Congratulations must be given to all those who came away as winners on the evening, as seen below:

Terry Bates Memorial Trophy  Nettleham
Sibber Addison Memorial Cup (Umpires) David Ginn
Lincolnshire Free Press Scorers' Trophy Janet Morris (Boston CC)
Fair Play Trophy Sleaford CC
Ann Boulton Services to Cricket Award David Morris
Women's and Girls' Development Club Hartsholme CC
Wilkinson Sword Lindum CC
Mike Molloy Trophy Young Player of the Year Jonathan Cheer (Boston CC)
Tony North Trophy Most Promising Junior Newcomer Harry Warwick (Grimsby CC)
Onyx Man of the Match Award Warren Nel (Nettleham) / Roald Badenhorst (Skegness)
Fielding Catches Nathan Poundall (Hartsholme) / Roald Badenhorst (Skegness)
Wicketkeeping Oliver Burford (Sleaford CC)
Winkworth Cup Bracebridge Heath CC
Winkworth Cup Man of the Match Jason Scheepers (Bracebridge Heath CC)
The Stroud Family Batting Award Warren Nel (Nettleham CC)
Most Runs in the Season Warren Nel (Nettleham CC)
Lincolnshire Echo Bowling Award FahadMasood (Bourne CC)
Most Wickets in the Season FahadMasood (Bourne CC)
Target Series of Newspaper League Runners-up Sleaford CC
League Champions Bourne CC
Lifetime Achievement Award Harry Pougher

We were lucky enough to have representatives from many of our sponsors including David Montenegro of the RAF Red Arrows, Peter Motley from the Lincolnshire Cooperative and Dipan Suwarneraj and Angela Williams from our newest sponsor Barefoot Traveller Sports.

Our proud sponsors, amongst others, were all kind enough to donate generous raffle prizes including signed Red Arrows memorabilia, a Fair Trade Hamper from the Lincolnshire Coop, dance lessons courtesy of Go Dance studios, a selection of wines and spirits and a VIP experience at Sakura Lincoln. Guest speaker, journalist and author Grahame Lloyd donated two copies of his book ‘Six of the Best', personally signed to each winner. The most sought after prize of the evening was courtesy of Barefoot Traveller Sports and Jet Airways; a trip for one person to Sri Lanka worth around £950!

Our guest speaker for the night was broadcaster and journalist Grahame Lloyd who gave a presentation with ex-cricketer John Parkin and an excellent insight into his book ‘Six of the Best'. A very big thank you to both Grahame and John for coming along.
For the first time a Lifetime Achievement Award was handed out to a very deserved winner; Harry Pougher. With a long and successful career cricket, first playing for LCCC in 1959 aged 18 and now being the chairman at Lindum CC he has helped to coach one of England's finest; Mike Atherton. On the evening, Harry received a heartfelt tribute from Mike as well as the Lincolnshire County Cricket Award for Lifetime Achievement.

All in all, it was a very successful evening and once again thank you to everyone involved in arranging the evening, donating fantastic raffle prizes and of course congratulations to the winners.